Gary Griffith, B.A. in Environmental Studies and Planning, teaches for the Sonoma Valley Unified School District where he was a science mentor and staff developer for the California Science Implementation Network. Create stories based on your life experience, using themes such as fear, courage and comedy. You can choose to keep the stories real or write a more mythical or humorous version. Explore techniques of improvisation, theatre games, movement, vocals and even babble writing and gibberish for clowning around. Learn about what works on stage and what doesn't and why.
Students perform improvisation by taking suggestions from the audience.
No experience is necessary, just the willingness to express the playful, serious, the humorous and sometimes foolish parts of ourselves, and the desire to explore creativity in the work of theatre arts. Sharona Elfus-Schatzkin has a background in acting and choreography, and is an interactive storyteller, improvisationalist, comedian and voiceover artist. She recently performed her one woman show, Chocolate and Other Taboos, at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. Investigate basic geometric forms. As you move into three dimensions by constructing paper models of polyhedra, learn how to join them together to create polyhedra complexes, such as a menagerie of animal forms.