I am thrilled to report that there are some new and exciting changes to our 7/8th grade Drama program this year! Our 7/8th grade students will be choosing Fine Arts' electives! Each trimester, students can choose to take Drama, Art, or Dance. This will give students a chance to explore a variety of Arts' offerings or go more in depth with one particular interest.
In Drama, this will give us an opportunity to explore specific themes and dramatic styles as a group all keenly interested in Dramatic Art. Our shared interests will help support, encourage, and shape our learning as we explore a variety of theatrical genre from around the world and history. In trimester 1, our 7th grade Drama students can take Shadow Puppetry, where we'll design, create, write, and perform our own Shadow Puppet plays based on folktales from Asia (where Shadow Puppetry was developed into a high-art form). For 8th grade Drama students, they can take Commedia dell'Arte, where we'll explore this comedic style from the Italian Renaissance and then design Commedia masks and write and perform our own modern Commedia plays! It should be a great start to our first-ever Drama electives at APR!
And not to be outdone, our 5th grade students will begin their introduction to Drama with their exploratory course. We'll spend the year discovering different styles of storytelling: from performing multicultural folktales in tableaux style in Trimester 1 to an exploration of family stories and improvising American stories and creating our own fairytales at the end of the year. It will be an exciting year of discovering acting, playwriting, design, and performance for our youngest APR students!
And for any students for whom being in a Drama class just isn't enough time on stage? They can check out our productions! Aladdin, Jr. this fall and then our winter one-acts and spring ZIPS!
It's going to be a fun and busy year for Drama at APR!
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