Materials: Notebook, Pencil, Binder + Folder, Professional Black Performance Clothing: Button up shirt or leotard, slacks or skirt, optional black dress. Black dress shoes, black jazz or character shoes.

Theater Foundations: 9th Grade

Syllabus

Summer Assignment

  • Cultural Competency, Inclusive Collaboration Practices

  • Contemporary Monologues

  • Contemporary Scenes

  • Musical Theater Songs, Scenes or Monologues

  • Musical Theater Appreciation

  • Playwriting

  • Directing

  • Tech Theater

  • Theater History

  • Stage Combat: Hand to Hand Mechanics

  • Dance Technique

  • Wellness

  • Season Audition Prep

  • Cast & Crew Opportunities: Afterschool Shows, Divine Wine Pop Ups, Lenaea, Words & Music, Showcase, Page to Stage

Theater Production: 9th-12th Grade

Syllabus

Summer Assignment

  • Cultural Competency, Inclusive Collaboration Practices

  • Script Analysis

  • Character Development

  • Dialects & Phonetics

  • Viewpoints & Composition

  • Production History

  • Design & Construction

  • Production Portfolios

  • Self Promotion

  • Professionalism

  • Wellness

  • Gratitude

Drama: 10th-12th Grade

Syllabus

Summer Assignment

  • Cultural Competency, Inclusive Collaboration Practices

  • Shakespeare

  • Acting for Film

  • Diverse Theater Techniques

  • Contemporary Theaters and Figures

  • New Plays

  • Tech Theater

  • Stage Combat: Sword & Staff Choreo

  • Movement for Theater

  • Wellness

  • Theater for Social Change

  • College and Audition Prep

  • Season Audition Prep

  • Cast & Crew Opportunities: Afterschool Shows, Divine Wine Pop Ups, Lenaea, Words & Music, Showcase, Emerging Voices, ESU, #Enough, Climate Change Theater Action, Shakespeare and Violence Prevention

Dance PE: 9th-12th Grade

Syllabus

  • Yoga

  • Ballet

  • Modern

  • Hip Hop

  • Contemporary

  • Latin Dance

  • Jazz

  • Physical Fitness Test: Prep and Test

  • Wellness Routine

Musical Theater: 10th-12th Grade

Syllabus

Summer Assignment

  • Cultural Competency, Inclusive Collaboration Practices

  • “Book” Construction

  • Acting the Song

  • Applied Music Theory: Vocal Health, Marking a Score, Sight Reading

  • Musical Theater Artists

  • Tech Theater

  • Choreography Genres

  • The “Ages” of Broadway: Historical Context

  • Wellness

  • Applied Theater

  • College and Audition Prep

  • Season Audition Prep

  • Cast & Crew Opportunities: Afterschool Shows, Divine Wine Main Stage & Pop Ups, Lenaea, Words & Music, Showcase, Community Outreach

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