After a whirlwind of a fall semester, here we are on Winter Break!
I am lucky enough to be a member of the faculty at the Fort Lewis College Theatre Department, where I spent the last several months teaching Creative Dramatics (300 Level) and Devised & Performance Art (400 Level). They say that the way to learn is to teach, and oh, how I have felt that way teaching collegiately. As a quick recap:
- Creative Dramatics was a long-form improvisation class where students learned several of the most famous forms (Armando, Duologue, Monoscene, and La Ronde) while figuring out how to support each other as a team, listen intently, and remember… well, everything!
- Devised and Performance Art was a class based on Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints. We explored contact improv, slam poetry, wrote a movement piece, and students created and performed their own solo-shows.
Coming up this spring, I will be teaching Acting II to our talented theatrical cohort–it’s going to be a blast. Mask work, physical theatre, and voice and speech will blend as we delve into both classical and modern text. We will write, we will read, we will explore–I don’t know if a job gets better than that.
