Featured here are stuff I have taught or have taken or produced... some have links... take a peek inside...
2019-2014
Commedia Dell'arte Intensive - Pt. Grey Academy(Grade 9s) and St.Johns's IB School
Physical theatre consultation/direction for production of 'Antigone' - South Ridge Academy
Isle dell' Arte: Commedia Performance October 17-19 Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre (UBC)
ABCDE Conference (Oct 25-26) at SFU, School for the Contemporary Arts www.bcdramateachers.com/fall-conference.html
Physical Theatre Intensive: MEADOWRIDGE Secondary School, Maple Ridge - with Senior Acting Class
Surrey ACT IE Drama Festival - January 23rd - Adjudicator at the Bell Centre for the Arts, Surrey BC
PROJECT MEMORY: Original Performance created with Grade 5 students from Muhiem Elementary, Smithers BC with seniors form The Meadows, May/June
PANTOLAND 2019 Theatre Replacement theatre summer classes for kids!! At the Cultch, East Vancouver July 2018
theatrereplacement.org/portfolio-item/pantoland/
ArtStarts Residency in COMOX/COURTNEY: Mask and Isolation - October 22-26, 2018 week intensive
Vanier Secondary and Highland Secondary Schools
Physical Theatre, Commedia, Character Workshops- October/November 2018
Southridge Senior Secondary, Vancouver Tech Secondary, St.John's Secondary
North Island Drama Festival (NIRD) - November 23rd Nanaimo, BC
PANTOLAND 2018 Theatre Replacement theatre summer classes for kids!! At the Cultch, East Vancouver July 2018
theatrereplacement.org/portfolio-item/pantoland/
Workshop in Arts Integration for Teachers (2016)
Stand Out! Putting Learning on the Centre Stage through the Performing Arts
artstarts.com/october
Workshop 1: Page and Stage with Spoken Word Artist - Dia Davina Workshop 2: Physical Theatre in the Classroom with Susan Bertoia
Art Fundamentals Workshop Series (2015)
"Fun, Focus and No Apologies: Empowering the Theatre Artist Workshop
artstarts.com/stories/art-fundamentals-mar-2015
ARTSTARTS RESIDENCY ARCHIVE 2015-2013
THE PHYSICAL SPACE PROJECT (2015)
Hastings Elementary School, Vancouver, Teacher: Nathalie Davies, Grade 5 French Immersion Class
Residency Dates: January 2016- May 2016
A sensorial and physical theatre exploration of Space, the bigger concept of the Solar System and the physical space we as living creatures occupy, students will be lead in a series of immersive exploratory exercises that will culminate in a site specific informative, informal performance.
THE GREAT COMMEDIA PROJECT (2014)
Burnaby Mountain Secondary; Teacher: Felicity Rudolph ; Grades: 8-12
Residency Dates: March 31, 2014 – April 10, 2014
Much of the comedy we experience today stems from the original European street performers of Commedia. We introduced and reintroduce these stock characters to the students to help them see why these characters can still be humorous in the modern world. Once students played the traditional way of the masked stock characters, we shifted our focus in developing modern versions of lazzo’s – staged comic business- or “schtick.” Students will explore and build new material that is relevant to today’s audience. This exploration built their improvisational skills and supplemented their work that they have done in the past. Students ended this project by having the opportunity to perform to the rest of the school.
WONDERFUL WORLD PROJECT (2014)
Francois Lake Elementary, Francois Lake BC; School Contact: Caroline Deane; Grades: K-7 No. of Students: 100
January 20, 2014 - January 24, 2014
Each of four classes (students grouped in 2 primary and 2 intermediate classes) worked individually to create a school wide collaborative performance that gave each student the opportunity to improve on and demonstrate their public speaking performance skills. Through movement based physical theatre the goal was to provide opportunities for students to further develop their social and emotional learning skills such as gratitude, self-regulation, friendship and social problem solving.
THE PRISM PROJECT (2013)
Windermere Secondary, Vancouver; Teacher: Anjuli Enthoven; Grades: 8-12; No. of Students: 120
November 04, 2013 – November 15, 2013
he P.R.I.S.M. Project (Posture, Rhythm, Internal Spirit, and Mask) set out to introduce physical theatre and mask work to drama students, aiming to help students become aware of how they carry themselves, and how to change it in confidence and secure manner. The goals of this project were to create physical awareness of self and environment, develop skills using our bodies, time, space and weight, utilizing Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre methods, and applying these skills to masks enabling exploration of a variety of characters. The final product was presented in a prepared scene for an invited audience. We used the masks that were available at the school made by mask maker Gina Bastone
2019-2014
Commedia Dell'arte Intensive - Pt. Grey Academy(Grade 9s) and St.Johns's IB School
Physical theatre consultation/direction for production of 'Antigone' - South Ridge Academy
Isle dell' Arte: Commedia Performance October 17-19 Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre (UBC)
ABCDE Conference (Oct 25-26) at SFU, School for the Contemporary Arts www.bcdramateachers.com/fall-conference.html
Physical Theatre Intensive: MEADOWRIDGE Secondary School, Maple Ridge - with Senior Acting Class
Surrey ACT IE Drama Festival - January 23rd - Adjudicator at the Bell Centre for the Arts, Surrey BC
PROJECT MEMORY: Original Performance created with Grade 5 students from Muhiem Elementary, Smithers BC with seniors form The Meadows, May/June
PANTOLAND 2019 Theatre Replacement theatre summer classes for kids!! At the Cultch, East Vancouver July 2018
theatrereplacement.org/portfolio-item/pantoland/
ArtStarts Residency in COMOX/COURTNEY: Mask and Isolation - October 22-26, 2018 week intensive
Vanier Secondary and Highland Secondary Schools
Physical Theatre, Commedia, Character Workshops- October/November 2018
Southridge Senior Secondary, Vancouver Tech Secondary, St.John's Secondary
North Island Drama Festival (NIRD) - November 23rd Nanaimo, BC
PANTOLAND 2018 Theatre Replacement theatre summer classes for kids!! At the Cultch, East Vancouver July 2018
theatrereplacement.org/portfolio-item/pantoland/
Workshop in Arts Integration for Teachers (2016)
Stand Out! Putting Learning on the Centre Stage through the Performing Arts
artstarts.com/october
Workshop 1: Page and Stage with Spoken Word Artist - Dia Davina Workshop 2: Physical Theatre in the Classroom with Susan Bertoia
Art Fundamentals Workshop Series (2015)
"Fun, Focus and No Apologies: Empowering the Theatre Artist Workshop
artstarts.com/stories/art-fundamentals-mar-2015
ARTSTARTS RESIDENCY ARCHIVE 2015-2013
THE PHYSICAL SPACE PROJECT (2015)
Hastings Elementary School, Vancouver, Teacher: Nathalie Davies, Grade 5 French Immersion Class
Residency Dates: January 2016- May 2016
A sensorial and physical theatre exploration of Space, the bigger concept of the Solar System and the physical space we as living creatures occupy, students will be lead in a series of immersive exploratory exercises that will culminate in a site specific informative, informal performance.
THE GREAT COMMEDIA PROJECT (2014)
Burnaby Mountain Secondary; Teacher: Felicity Rudolph ; Grades: 8-12
Residency Dates: March 31, 2014 – April 10, 2014
Much of the comedy we experience today stems from the original European street performers of Commedia. We introduced and reintroduce these stock characters to the students to help them see why these characters can still be humorous in the modern world. Once students played the traditional way of the masked stock characters, we shifted our focus in developing modern versions of lazzo’s – staged comic business- or “schtick.” Students will explore and build new material that is relevant to today’s audience. This exploration built their improvisational skills and supplemented their work that they have done in the past. Students ended this project by having the opportunity to perform to the rest of the school.
WONDERFUL WORLD PROJECT (2014)
Francois Lake Elementary, Francois Lake BC; School Contact: Caroline Deane; Grades: K-7 No. of Students: 100
January 20, 2014 - January 24, 2014
Each of four classes (students grouped in 2 primary and 2 intermediate classes) worked individually to create a school wide collaborative performance that gave each student the opportunity to improve on and demonstrate their public speaking performance skills. Through movement based physical theatre the goal was to provide opportunities for students to further develop their social and emotional learning skills such as gratitude, self-regulation, friendship and social problem solving.
THE PRISM PROJECT (2013)
Windermere Secondary, Vancouver; Teacher: Anjuli Enthoven; Grades: 8-12; No. of Students: 120
November 04, 2013 – November 15, 2013
he P.R.I.S.M. Project (Posture, Rhythm, Internal Spirit, and Mask) set out to introduce physical theatre and mask work to drama students, aiming to help students become aware of how they carry themselves, and how to change it in confidence and secure manner. The goals of this project were to create physical awareness of self and environment, develop skills using our bodies, time, space and weight, utilizing Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre methods, and applying these skills to masks enabling exploration of a variety of characters. The final product was presented in a prepared scene for an invited audience. We used the masks that were available at the school made by mask maker Gina Bastone