Each group selects a painting on which they will base an original drama. Each group explores the use of storytelling, kinetics image, soundscapes, and ritual building in transforming the selected painting to a theatrical performance. Each group plans environment, characters, and plot in scripting a performance piece based on the painting. Each group stages or rehearses their original work. Each group performs their original work in from of a live audience, which could mean performing for other students in the class or another call or an outside audience.
All groups help assess the work using a shared rubric.
Kindergarten Through Grade Three. Xan is also the Theatre Consultant for the Utah State Office of Education. Participants will explore paintings from the collection now hanging in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah through the process of live theatrical performance. Using the theatre techniques of storytelling, creative movement, soundscapes, and ritual building, participants will create short ensemble performances representing the perceived meaning of selected paintings as interpreted through the medium of live theatre. Using the visual arts to inspire movement and dance.