Professional Workshops for Children
Victoria excels in providing children with the skills needed to give shape to their own ideas and voice.Here are some popular workshops:
Stage Combat
2+ hours
Ages 8+
Learn to "fight" without getting hurt!
Stage Combat is the art of stage fighting. Young actors learn to kick and slap without getting hurt. This incredibly fun workshop teaches the young actor safe techniques, culminating in the performance of a short fight including original moves. Moms, don't worry: This workshop teaches discipline, co-operation, and empowers the young actor to deconstruct 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.
Fight Direction and Choreography are also available.
Site Specific Theater
5+ hours
Ages 6+
All the world's a stage.
Create your own show! From stage management to playwriting, voice technique to direction, students create their own theater in direct relationship to an environment. The end result is a tour of live plays set in a true setting: From a playground to a hallway, parents will be amazed what their kids can up with!
Learning benefits: Site Specific Theater 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.
Recycled fashion
5+ hours
Ages 10+
Create unique and affordable clothing from recycled materials. Image and clothing through history are discussed, including modern day media. Recycled fashion empowers children t examine their image and preconceptions, while embracing recycling in a concrete manner.
Learning benefits: Math, geometry, environmental studies, political science and history are all incorporated in the study of fashion.
See dresses made from tshirts! tshirtdresses.weebly.com
Renaissance Faire
8+hours
Ages7+
Learn History by living it!
Children create their own Faire, complete with the Queen and her court, storytelling, swordfighting, wandering minstrels, and a marketplace! A wonderful end-of-year project or fundraiser for your school!
Learning benefits: An in depth experience of cultural, economic, and social history.
Scriptwriting
2+ hours
Ages 8+
Write your own short screenplay! Parents: If you have a consumer camera at home, your young filmmaker can film their own script! Scriptwriters learn correct formatting, and explore ideas through games and exercises which unlock creativity and bring scriptwriting to life.
This workshop ends in a final presentation.
Learning benefits: A valuable skill that unlocks literacy for students intimidated by prose and essay writing. The opportunity of choice of content, and committment to ideas is empowering to writers of all ages.
Storytelling
1+ hours
Ages 4+
Find your own story!
A contemporary approach to the ancient oral tradition of storytelling, an important aspect of many progressive educational techniques, including Waldorf. Children experience storytelling techniques and styles from ancient cultures around the world.The young storyteller uses the inspiration to develop their own style of
storytelling. This workshop can end in a final presentation.
Learning benefits: Ideal for the pre-reader, oral tradition engages the imagination, and teaches story structure.
Acting Workshops
2+ hours
Ages 5+
Acting is a wonderful way to learn co-operation, conflict/resolution, and improve communication skills...all while having fun! The young actor learns through theater games, physical and vocal techniques. Dress to move! This professional series introduces the young actor to a variety of formats, including storytelling, acting for theater, commercial acting, and improvisation.
This workshop can end in a final presentation of theater games.
Voice
Vocal technique is an actors' valuable tool. This fun and physical class provides the young actor with tools and greater awareness of their voice. Some children find vocal exercises particularly stress releasing, and can be used as a tool for stress reduction.
Acting for Auditions
For every kid who's ever wondered what it's like to audition for film or TV! This fun class takes each actor through all the steps they need to prepare, and ace an audition!
Character Development
How do you create and act out a personality different from your own? Also a great workshop for young writers!!! This class explores various approaches to character development.
Learning benefits for all acting classes: Increased communication skills, problems solving, conflict/resolution, and greater awareness of body, voice, and interpersonal relationships.
Victoria's Philosophy
Children are all creative, and can all achieve excellence. Learning derives from engaging the intellect, body, and emotional life of the student, so that each child can approach a problem or topic from the methodology they are most comfortable with.
Through encouragement, excitement, and support of individuality, each child can learn to express their own voice; to develop their own unique interests; and to perceive the world from varying perspectives, resulting in well rounded human beings with empathy and problem solving skills that will last a lifetime.
Victoria excels in providing children with the skills needed to give shape to their own ideas and voice.
Stage Combat
2+ hours
Ages 8+
Learn to "fight" without getting hurt!
Stage Combat is the art of stage fighting. Young actors learn to kick and slap without getting hurt. This incredibly fun workshop teaches the young actor safe techniques, culminating in the performance of a short fight including original moves. Moms, don't worry: This workshop teaches discipline, co-operation, and empowers the young actor to deconstruct 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.
Fight Direction and Choreography are also available.
Site Specific Theater
5+ hours
Ages 6+
All the world's a stage.
Create your own show! From stage management to playwriting, voice technique to direction, students create their own theater in direct relationship to an environment. The end result is a tour of live plays set in a true setting: From a playground to a hallway, parents will be amazed what their kids can up with!
Learning benefits: Site Specific Theater 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.
Recycled fashion
5+ hours
Ages 10+
Create unique and affordable clothing from recycled materials. Image and clothing through history are discussed, including modern day media. Recycled fashion empowers children t examine their image and preconceptions, while embracing recycling in a concrete manner.
Learning benefits: Math, geometry, environmental studies, political science and history are all incorporated in the study of fashion.
See dresses made from tshirts! tshirtdresses.weebly.com
Renaissance Faire
8+hours
Ages7+
Learn History by living it!
Children create their own Faire, complete with the Queen and her court, storytelling, swordfighting, wandering minstrels, and a marketplace! A wonderful end-of-year project or fundraiser for your school!
Learning benefits: An in depth experience of cultural, economic, and social history.
Scriptwriting
2+ hours
Ages 8+
Write your own short screenplay! Parents: If you have a consumer camera at home, your young filmmaker can film their own script! Scriptwriters learn correct formatting, and explore ideas through games and exercises which unlock creativity and bring scriptwriting to life.
This workshop ends in a final presentation.
Learning benefits: A valuable skill that unlocks literacy for students intimidated by prose and essay writing. The opportunity of choice of content, and committment to ideas is empowering to writers of all ages.
Storytelling
1+ hours
Ages 4+
Find your own story!
A contemporary approach to the ancient oral tradition of storytelling, an important aspect of many progressive educational techniques, including Waldorf. Children experience storytelling techniques and styles from ancient cultures around the world.The young storyteller uses the inspiration to develop their own style of
storytelling. This workshop can end in a final presentation.
Learning benefits: Ideal for the pre-reader, oral tradition engages the imagination, and teaches story structure.
Acting Workshops
2+ hours
Ages 5+
Acting is a wonderful way to learn co-operation, conflict/resolution, and improve communication skills...all while having fun! The young actor learns through theater games, physical and vocal techniques. Dress to move! This professional series introduces the young actor to a variety of formats, including storytelling, acting for theater, commercial acting, and improvisation.
This workshop can end in a final presentation of theater games.
Voice
Vocal technique is an actors' valuable tool. This fun and physical class provides the young actor with tools and greater awareness of their voice. Some children find vocal exercises particularly stress releasing, and can be used as a tool for stress reduction.
Acting for Auditions
For every kid who's ever wondered what it's like to audition for film or TV! This fun class takes each actor through all the steps they need to prepare, and ace an audition!
Character Development
How do you create and act out a personality different from your own? Also a great workshop for young writers!!! This class explores various approaches to character development.
Learning benefits for all acting classes: Increased communication skills, problems solving, conflict/resolution, and greater awareness of body, voice, and interpersonal relationships.
Victoria's Philosophy
Children are all creative, and can all achieve excellence. Learning derives from engaging the intellect, body, and emotional life of the student, so that each child can approach a problem or topic from the methodology they are most comfortable with.
Through encouragement, excitement, and support of individuality, each child can learn to express their own voice; to develop their own unique interests; and to perceive the world from varying perspectives, resulting in well rounded human beings with empathy and problem solving skills that will last a lifetime.
Victoria excels in providing children with the skills needed to give shape to their own ideas and voice.
