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Songwritting/Theatre Projects, Inc.—Shakespeare For All—Dancing Flowers & Dinosaur Bones

School Residencies:

"Songwriting/Theatre Projects, Inc."
(An Exploration in Local and Regional History)

Provides: Musical Theatre Enrichment with exposure to all aspects of production from story & song writing to singing & acting on stage.
Grade Levels: K through 12th grade students
Involvement: 70 to 90 students
Duration: 10 to 15 Days

This is a 10 to 15 day residency program that combines the development of a students listening, writing and comprehensive skills with a quality theatrical experience validating the use of their imagination as they turn their thoughts into music and then perform it.

Utilizing stories written by students, based on interviews with local elders from their town, a script is created that is acted out by three groups of acting students while three other groups of songwriting students each write a song based on some part of the script which is later sung by the entire cast during the final performance.
In addition to the development of student skills as described, this program nurtures the relationship between the school population, both students and faculty, and the community by focusing on local and regional history.

"Shakespeare For All"

Provides: Musical Theatre Enrichment (Shakespeare for all students)
Grade Levels: 5th through 12th grade students
Student Involvement: 45 to 90 students
Duration: 4 to 6 Weeks

This residency offers exposure to and appreciation for Shakespeare's work.
It is a four to six week program with original music that can produce up to three different plays involving 80 to 90 students. They each act, sing, create props and perform back stage and lighting duties.

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"Dancing Flowers & Dinosaur Bones" ™

Provides: Exposure to the relationship of music to movement and rhythm
Grade Levels: K through 3rd grade students
Student Involvement: 20 to 60 students
Duration: 2 weeks

Students learn to sing and act out a variety of original and traditional songs for a final performance. Experts agree that early musical development combined with ovement and action contribute to brain development and can result in children and adults who are better able to think abstractly, contributing to a vast array of potential successes in life. Building a strong musical foundation is key to the formation of the tools necessary for life’s roller coaster ride.

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A Note About the Theatrical Experience:

The benefits to be derived from any quality theatrical experience are many-fold. Add to these benefits the self-worth derived from seeing their own writing and interpretations come to life and you have a residency of serious merit. Additionally, the students participate in the documentation of their own local history as they record, through interviews with elders, actual events that took place in their own communities. This re-connection by the students with the community is invaluable in today's hanging social environment. The confidence to be derived from finding the courage in a theatrical experience to take the risk to act on stage or to be counted on to perform a certain technical skill, which further asks, "Can I really do this?" can last a lifetime. Some students remember one thing from their year in a particular grade and it’s often that moment of truth that comes from involvement in a theatrical project.

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Songwritting/Theatre Projects, Inc.—Shakespeare For All—Dancing Flowers & Dinosaur Bones