EDUCATION
ACT offers educational and performance programs for ages 8 to 100. Acting, Mime, Public Speaking, Improvisation, Creative Dramatics, Play Production, Life Stories, Playwriting, Speech, One Act Play Festivals and more for Schools, Community Centers and Theatres, Churches and Retirement Communities. We will design an educational, outreach or performance program just for you. Please see example of an education production workshop performance of 'Sadako'
Youth Programs Coming This Fall
It is our belief that theatre arts training is like any other form of training...the more you do it...the better you get. For example, dancers start classes at an early age and continue weekly, or the athlete who trains every day for years. Theatre arts training is most effective when students continue to develop their skills in improvisation, character and scene analysis, pantomime, auditioning, movement and vocal production skills. Theatre education provides more than just acting skills but skills for life.
Fall Acting Workshops for Youth
September 19th - December 14th
Advanced Acting Class For Youth ages 12-18
An intensive class workshop for youth who seek to develop and increase their skills and technique as actors. This is a skill-based class catering specifically to the needs and challenges of the participants. The eight-week class will immerse students in a variety of acting styles, and techniques (Stanislavski, Meisner, Bogart) with an emphasis on monologue and script analysis, breath work, voice and improvisation. A presentation of the student’s work will be given for family and friends on the last day of class.
Ten weeks on Tuesdays 5-6:30pm September 19,26 October 3,10,17,24 November 7,14,28 December 5
$225 (three-month payment plan available)
LOCATION: Arts Unlimited 228 North Main Street, Mooresville, NC
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Shakespeare: Outside the Box ages 11-18
This three-month intensive production class workshop includes an in-depth exploration of Shakespeare’s language, characters, stage fighting (in Hamlet, music, dance and song. ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ (in Twelfth Night). Participants will ‘learn through doing’ iambic pentameter, exploration of character and text. Students will explore ways to think of Shakespeare outside the box such as ‘Twelfth Night’ in a 1969 Woodstock musical world or ‘Hamlet’ (students will chose the concept). The production workshop ends with a community production of abridged versions of the two plays produced at Arts Unlimited with minimal costumes and sets.
Twelve weeks on Thursdays 5-7 September 21,28 October 5,12,19,26 November 2,9,16,30 December 7,14
$275 (three-month payment plan available)
LOCATION: Arts Unlimited 228 North Main Street, Mooresville, NC
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Educational Programs for Seniors 55+
ACT provides acting workshops for retirement homes, churches, community theatres and centers.
Choices of classes include 'Life Stories', 'Improvisation, a LOL Experience', 'Readers Theatre' and 'Play Production'. ACT will also design or direct a senior program for your community.
.Compilation of images from ACT's educational programs. Slides from 'Advanced Acting', 'Shakespeare: Outside the Box' workshop classes and Senior Theatre workshop performance classes. Please slide.
Culmination performance of 'Shakespeare: Outside the Box'
Vaudeville, short plays, monologues performed for the community
Short skit
Culmination performance of 'Shakespeare: Outside the Box'