Mime and Movement
The class partnered with members of On Stage! to create mime performances with a circus theme. The On Stage! program conducts theater classes and provides performance opportunities to adults coping with mental illness. Our students taught their students about mime and developed over the course of the semester a joint performance that was put on on-campus at the end of the semester. Improvisational Acting
Students conducted improv workshops at four different sites. One site was On Stage!. Another site was with mentally disabled children. Another site was at a local elementary school with 3rd graders. And the last site was at an after-school program through the YMCA for middle school students. In groups the students conducted 3 workshops at each site. For the first half of the semester, they researched and studied ways to adapt improv to different populations.
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