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Psst. Pssssssst. Hey kid. Yeah you, the one looking for something to do this summer.... Let's face it. Summer can be really, really, really boring sometimes. Granted, it's nice having no school. But what else is there to do? The folks can only entertain you oh-so-much and your young mind needs constant stimulation. It wants to create. It wants to expand. It wants to use this summer to it's utmost creative capacity. You know what you need? You need Salvage Vanguard Theater's summer program SVT Kids! |
Interested in attending our High School Playwrighting workshop in July 2008? Please download the application and e-mail back, along with other requirements to jenny@salvagevanguard.org.
Our resident playwright, Dan Dietz will be leading a playwriting workshop for teens in Austin, Texas this summer.The goal of the class is to use drama to excite students about math, science, and history and also to nurture and empower the young writers of tomorrow. Over the course of the three weeks the students will choose a topic to write about, research that topic, and write a short play. The workshop will culminate in a public reading with professional actors!THE OFFICIAL SVT KIDS! SUMMER CAMP
June 9-13: Behind the Scenes/ How do they do that??
Calling all special effects artists, technicians
and performers! This
camp will focus on the wide variety of techniques designers and theatre artists
use to solve design challenges. Drawing on the multiple disciplines
of performance, creative writing, stage combat, sound, prop, costume and makeup
design students will engage in projects that will sharpen their problem-solving
skills and reinforce the many roles that take part in play-making. Students
will experiment with illusions like fake blood and bruises, ‘safe brawling’,
crash boxes and creating stylized representations of fantastical worlds onstage. The
camp will culminate in the performance of an original piece that
showcases their projects and discoveries.
June 16-20: Subversive Fairy Tales
We all remember the fairy tales of our childhood. How often do we
stop to consider the underlying implications of those stories on modern children? Are
they even relevant in our modern world? This camp will be fueled
by the work of Jack Zipes, radical fairy tale expert and author of Don’t
Bet on the Prince and more. In this workshop, students will
use play and performance as their tools to deconstruct and critically
examine classic fairy tales. Performance, writing and collaboration skills
will be the focus of this camp as students claim ownership of the
tales and re-work them in their own voices to collaboratively create a fairy
tale for the modern world. The new student-created tale will be presented to parents at
the camp’s conclusion.
June 23- 27: Detective Mystery Adventure Camp
It’s time to solve a mystery! Students take on characters in
this wacky improvisational camp in order to get to the bottom of a mystery. Problem
solving skills and imaginative play go hand-in-hand as students solve a crime
collaboratively. Teaching artists with years of improvisation and acting
experience will play multiple characters as they guide students along an adventure
that will require them to face challenges, collect clues and piece together
evidence to nab the culprit! Students will share a sample of this process
with parents on the camp’s final day.
On-Camera Puppetry
August 4-8 (M-F)
Young puppeteers and filmmakers alike will enjoy this camp. Anyone
can build a puppet! Anything can be a puppet! Sock puppets! Paper-tape puppets! Shadow
puppets! Flat board puppets! Found objects with googly-eyes! The
only limits are the limits of our imaginations. In this camp students
will design and build their own puppets, then bring them to life. They
will storyboard short films featuring their puppets and film them – using
each other as a production team. This camp is designed to help students
become more aware of the preparation and teamwork involved in creating a project
for the screen and to help them to become more critical of the onscreen images
they encounter on a day-to-day basis. This camp will culminate in a
screening of student work. Each student will also receive a copy of
the class project DVD.
About our awesome teachers!
Nitra Gutiérrez is an interdisciplinary teaching artist working on her MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked with young people and adults in rural Alaska, Victoria, Austin, and New York City. She is a charter member of the 3Graces Theatre Co. (NYC), who received the 2007 Lucille Lortel Award for the achievement of women in theatre. Her play Kidnapped by Craigslist (ECNY Award nominee) has been produced at the People’s Improv Theatre in NYC and has upcoming runs in Austin, 2008 and Phoenix, 2009. In Austin, Nitra works in the Voices Against Violence Program @ UT, using peer theatre to raise awareness about the issues of interpersonal and relationship violence. She is also an active improviser, actor and playwright.
Chris Hatcher has been working as a teaching artist since 1999. After earning his BFA from Texas State, Chris studied at Mike Nichol's New Actors Workshop in NYC. For the past nine years, Chris has been acting and teaching kids for Theatre Action Project, Traveling Lantern Theater, and Mad Science. He also keeps busy as a graphic designer and video producer. Chris loves working behind the scenes and is excited to pass on some theater magic.
Nat Miller has a Masters degree in theatre education & is a certified public school theatre teacher. His experience comes from teaching creative drama with k-12 students, teaching improvisation and directing and devising theatre with youth. His main interests are using theatre as a tool for young people to gain self-confidence, use their imaginations, learn how to present themselves, collaborate with others, and empower themselves to make decisions that will positively affect their lives.
Connor Hopkins is the founder, Artistic Director, and janitor of The TroublePuppet Theater Company. In addition to writing, designing, building and performing shows, he has taught workshops and classes for Lifeworks, Second Youth, Scottish Rite Children’s Theater, and the Totally Cool/Totally Art program. He also designs and builds masks, costumes, sets and props for a variety of Austin theater companies, including Rude Mechanicals, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Scottish Rite Children’s Theater, Second Youth Theater, Tongue & Groove, Teatro Vivo, Mary Moody Northen and others.
Held at SVT-- 2803 Manor Road.
For more infomration and to register call 474-SVT6.