Kids Acting Technique I

This 8-week program is perfect for first-time students to learn a vital foundation of acting technique and vocabulary taught at our program. This class covers a myriad of acting techniques, works on building the actors' confidence on and off the stage, and sets the student up for success in future classes in our program.

Through this 8-week program students will master acting techniques such as:

• Stanislavski-Based: Objectives, Obstacles, & Tactics (action)
• Stanislavski-Based: Given Circumstances
• Memorization Techniques and Methods
• Vocal and Physical warm up for before performances or presentations
• Viewpoints Techniques adapted for actors by Anne Bogart & Tina Landau.
• Uta Hagens: Who am I? Character Analysis Work
• How to give and receive constructive feedback
• Students will memorize a 60-90 second monologue and build a character. We will spend the first four weeks investigating foundational acting techniques and the last four weeks applying the techniques to the monologues. 

At the end of the 8 weeks students will individually perform a monologue in our Monologue Showcase. Family and friends will be encouraged to attend in support of their actor.

Class Dates and Times:

Saturday, January 14th 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday, January 21st 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday, January 28th 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday,  February 4th 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday, February 11th 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday, February 18th 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday, February 25th 10:00am-11:30am 

Saturday, March 4th 9:30am-12:00pm  (Last Class and Showcase)

About the Teaching Artist: 

Kaite Ibrahim is a Dallas-based theatre artist originally from Orlando, FL. She graduated from SMU with a degree in Theatre Studies where she directed, stage managed, and produced a number of productions. She has worked on numerous productions in NYC and Dallas. Second Thought Theatre, Tony Award-Winning Dallas Theatre Center, Shakespeare Dallas, Echo Theatre, just to name a few theatres she's been involved in recently.