Drama/Theatre Arts

Through simple scripted scenes, performance projects, and/or practical application, students learn to identify what makes performances believable and explore the tools used to create, articulate, and execute them. 

Students with previous experience students will continue to build skills and knowledge in acting through analysis, discussion, and classroom performance.

Students learn the basics of theatre arts by exploring a character through such activities as pantomime, improvisation and effective speaking using articulation, projection and breathing. Students also explore elements of technical theatre by exploring the use of such elements as costumes, props and scenery. Students practice writing for the theatre and explore various theatre roles and functions. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals.

Student’s coursework focuses on basic acting, basic vocal performance, basic dance/movement, non-dance movement, and staging, which transfer readily to musical theatre literature.  Students will survey the current trends in musical theatre.  Students will explore the unique staging and technical demands of musicals.  Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals.  Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day.

Student’s coursework focuses on, but is not limited to, acting, vocal performance, dance/movement, and staging, which transfer readily to musical theatre literature. Students will survey the evolution of music in theatre from ancient Greece to modern Broadway through a humanities approach and with representative, age appropriate literature. They will learn to analyze the structures, stories and settings of musical theatre exemplars to understand how those components serve the story. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside of the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom

Student’s coursework focuses on, but is not limited to, intermediate acting, intermediate vocal performance, intermediate dance/movement, and staging, which transfer readily to music theatre literature. Students will learn from studying styles and techniques used by well-known singer-actor-dancers and choreographers and they will begin to build a performance portfolio. Students will begin to use their prior knowledge to develop scenes on their own and incorporate blocking, choreography and settings. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside of the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom.

The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop fundamental skills in stagecraft and apply them through practical experiences.

The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop fundamental knowledge and skills in the elements of theatre arts.

The purpose of this course is to enable students to increase fundamental knowledge and skills in the elements of theatre arts, with an emphasis on performance.

The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop basic knowledge and skills in the elements of theatre arts, with an emphasis on design and technical elements.