Artists in the Classroom
Bring the innovative and creativity of an artist to enrich curriculum, liaison professional theatre artists with students, or to inspire teachers to incorporate the arts into the classroom.
Artists in the Boardroom
From fundraisers to corporate team building. Employees get to deck their boss, create a play in the company kitchen, and find the resources of teamwork, communication, creativity, and true outside the box thinking...while having the time of their lives.
Workshops currently available:
Site Specific Theatre
6+ hours
Ages 6+
Introduction to every aspect of an original production, from stage management to playwriting. Teams are arranged and students create their own theatre in direct relationship to an environment. Themes can be incorporated for enhanced curriculum. The end result is a tour of live plays set in a true setting: From a playground to a boardroom, any space can be made into an experience.
Learning benefits: This workshop is adaptable from elementary students who can bring social students literally to life, to advanced learning in Universities for students who want to learn how to self produce.
Site Specific Theatre utilizes unique skills sets, requiring a depth of focus, clarity, and commitment physically, emotionally larger than on screen. The relationship of story and environment, the complexity of team relationships, and the satisfaction of a finished product make this workshop a best seller!
Playwriting
4+ hours
Ages 6+
Literacy through authentic voice. From analysis of character to conflict, the simplicity and truth of a play through dialogue results in an emotional connection for students of all ages. Themes can be incorporated for enhanced curriculum.
Learning benefits: Literacy, dramatic structure, analysis of conflict resolution.
Introduction to Stage Combat
2-4 hours
Ages 10+
Learn stage combat techniques in a safe, respectable environment. Notation of choreography and analysis of a fight are taught hands-on, culminating in the performance of a short fight including original moves and the deconstruction of violence in the media.
Learning benefits: These workshops provide positive learning experiences that students can connect to emotionally, physically, and intellectually. Empowering to women and girls, and appealing to difficult to reach students. Students engage in discipline, cooperation, self control, creativity, interspatial and interstitial awareness, three dimensional staging.
Shakespeare and Sword
6-12 hours
Ages 12+ Can there be a better way to learn the Bard's words? Learn fights form the classics, tackling the text in the most dramatic of circumstances...with sword in hand!
Learning benefits: Literacy and deconstruction of Shakespearean poetry, combined with the physical techniques with endless benefits of learning how to safely wield a sword.
Fight Direction
From Shakespeare to a simple slap, to ongoing classes. Fight Director, Victoria Goring has codified a technique allowing actors to work safely and efficiently without trepidation. Victoria empowers actors, teaching them how to create their own moves for naturalistic stage violence. Each move is connected to storytelling, so that the actor moves with purpose and emotional intent.
As a woman, Victoria is a fun instructor who represents the least threatening teacher possible for what can be an intimidating part of a production, adding her love of action and inspiring creativity and clarity to each moment. |
VICTORIA'S FIGHT DIRECTION
& CHOREOGRAPHY
Lorraine Kisma Theatre for Young People
York University
Michael Kennard
(Babes in Chains Collective) @Hatch
Cliffhanger Productions
Bulletproof Theatre
Alumnae Theatre
Sarasvati Productions
Skylight Theatre
Equity Showcase
Poculi Ludique Societas
Les Mimes Bilingues
New Dramatists NYC
First Night
Renaissance & Medieval Faires
Fundraisers
Corporate events
Tapestry Films
Muki Baum School of the Arts
LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program) –NYC
Vaughan Separate School Board
Toronto School Board
PAST PROJECTS
"Where the Wild Things Are"
Original choreography workshopped and performed by grade one students,
with original music composed and performed by a grade three students.
"The Gift"
A holiday performance written exclusively for the dually disabled
population.
Choreography:
"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown", "Godspell", "Remembrance day
dances"
Workshops:
Stage Combat. Mime, Improvisation, Original Dance, Shakespeare
& Sword, Playwriting, Improvisation, Conflict/Resolution, Special-Education
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