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Setting up right at the outset four goals that the projects should meet and on which we’ll all assess them generally helps discourage weak proposals.

As Vic said, the goals make the project feel “important.” I preface my list of sample projects with four goals, fuller descriptions of which may be found in Figure 1: (1) to respond to the poem and engage with some particular aspect of it; (2) to draw effectively on the possibilities of whichever medium you choose; (3) to communicate memorably your particular response to certain aspects of the poem; (4) to enrich your audience’s experience of the poem. These four goals form the criteria for a rubric with which the students and I assess each project, and we all add specific comments to our ratings.

I encourage the students to start small with some part or aspect of the poem that has stayed with them, and to trust that this pebble, when dropped into the pond of their imagination and ours, will make ripples. One dancer, in her anxiety to do well, proposed retelling the entire poem through ballet! My list of possible projects has grown over the years as students come up with proposals that never occurred to me.

Some have created a journey of images altered by Photoshop, accompanying it with their own guitar or piano playing. The advent of iMovie has allowed students to draw on their love of music or art and their expertise in technology to make a movie with their laptops and no special film training, facilities, or advice. Nick describes. . . sitting out in my woods thinking and doing meditation, with my laptop and my copy of “Mariner” open.  Suddenly I had my project idea. I had musical ideas first, so I wrote the first half of the music    that night. Though I changed the instrument tracks a lot later on, I kept the vocals in their original form.  Read more...

For the first time on Long Island, An Evening With Charlie Todd and Friends: The Improv Everywhere Live Show, will make its debut.  Improv Everywhere founder, Charlie Todd, is invited to speak about his unique personal experiences as the organizer of Improv Everywhere’s legendary missions. The hour-long show will feature video clips of a few of their most famous missions with Charlie’s live commentary and an interactive question and answer session. After the intermission, the audience will become part of the show. Charlie, along with other members of his group, will perform a long form improv comedy set based on interviews obtained with the audience. An Evening With Charlie Todd and Friends will debut Friday, February 4, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in the AU PAC Concert Hall, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.

Charlie Todd is the founder of Improv Everywhere, a New York City-based group, created in August 2001, which causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. The group has executed more than 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents.  Notable instances include the legendary Grand Central Freeze, Grocery Store Musical, The MP3 Experiment, and the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride. He is also a teacher and performer of improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The group’s videos have received more than 150 million views.

Individual tickets for this event are on sale now and are only . Student discounts are available. For more information on Improv Everywhere, please visit www.improveverywhere.com. To learn more about AU PAC’s 2010-2011 season, please visit aupac.adelphi.edu or call the AU PAC Box Office at (516) 877-4000.

Just for context: This is a 26-week English elective for juniors and seniors on reading, writing, and performing poetry. Our department doesn’t offer AP or honors English. Most of the upperclassmen get their first or second choice in their two-term and spring-term electives; those who wish to can take the AP exam and generally feel they’re well prepared. Every elective includes at least D&G jewelry sale one pre-20th-century work and a mix of genres, and all students practice incorporating research into their writing and create at least one analytical essay, a personal essay, and poetry, a story, or scenes for a play.

We emphasize that all writing is “creative,” and we offer opportunities to mix the genres and work in other media. For the first month or so, my poetry class explores diction, sound, and imagery, particularly in relation to their readings and writings about imprisonment and release, guilt, isolation, anger, and reconciliation. We travel backwards from Jimmy Santiago Baca’s prison memoir A Place to Stand to some of Blake’s Songs of Experience. Then we bring our individual and collective experience to bear on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

I’ve been offering this arts project response to “Mariner” for at least ten years, during which time we’ve had little alternative space other than the stage—when we could get it—or the practice room, equally hard to reserve, or the little outdoor acting platform, or a narrow and sinuous art gallery—not a good performance space. But any change of venue, especially if it allows for a change in lighting and more space for movement, can help students open themselves to new experiences, whether as performers or audience.  Read more...

These days the funding is tight for performance arts in schools and Universities. There are ways to supplement the lack of funding. Performance art fundraising can help you raise funds to afford new uniforms for the school band to keeping your art association going.

Here are a few ideas for active fundraisers that you can choose from.

Band Concerts

Local bands are always looking for gigs to play and some press attention. You can’t expect the bands to play for free but a little preparation can help both sides get what they want.

Approach a local youth centre, or hall and arrange for a charity event. The planning for the hall may even be looked after with their staff. Arrange a local gig and profit sharing on the night. That way you don’t have to pay an upfront fee and be dependant on large crowds. If you are able to get a few local bands to agree to this, which shouldn’t be too hard, then your talent is booked for the night.

Theatre Nights

Local productions of many amateur and professional theatre associations have a hard time selling out performances. Ask the production company if your charitable organization or school group could buy an entire scheduled performance at a discounted rate. Re-sell the tickets for your cause.

You may even consider approaching businesses and arranging a meet up with the actors and directors after the performance for their group if the purchase a large number of tickets or for a solid donation.

Fundraising Campaigns

Many campaigns are available through professional fundraising companies. The campaigns should represent your group, the age of the participants, and the time you have to donate to the campaign.  Read more...

Coursework writing is an essential academic activity practiced by students of higher levels of education. Coursework elaborates the understanding of student related to a particular subject. Performing art is a type of Art in which a person uses expression, body or face to present the main theme behind a subject. Performing Art has now become a separate discipline of study that highlights societal issues or cultural values of a society.
A performing Art coursework has some significant features that should be put under consideration before writing or buying a Performing Art coursework. The crucial features of performing arts coursework are:
• It is better to understand the language of Performing Art coursework. If one is deciding to buy or write a coursework, the incorporated elements of the particular field must be known and implemented in the coursework. It gives an impression of better understanding on the reader.
• Development of interest and keeping it intact is of prime importance in performing arts coursework writing.
• A performing art coursework should essentially demonstrate an element of relationship, which is a key ingredient of performing art.
• Music can supplement the performance greatly, so, supplementary elements should not be avoided, or ignored in the performing art coursework. Try to make an expression through the supplementary things and demonstrate your topic through it
•  A coursework should essentially evolve the motif of the particular field. Sticking on the motif through out the coursework is another rule for successful coursework writing.

Performing art has many forms, like Drama, Dance, Theatre, Opera, Music, etc. Depending on the type of art one should write a performing art coursework by following the standard format being set by institution, or instructors. A performing art coursework should be written under professional consultancy, that is, the topic, or subject and an outline for it, should be approved before actually writing a coursework.   Read more...