Project Impact

The Art of Collaboration Workshop

This interactive workshop begins with an excerpt performed from the Imagination in Motion assembly. Students will be asked to think about what made the performance fun and engaging, then artists Paul Rajekas & Neil Intraub will introduce the Three C's: Concentration, Cooperation and Commitment.

The students learn that before your can get up on stage to express your imagination you must learn how to watch, listen and develop self-control.  Students are invited to practice these skills by "performing" a variety of childhood games such as Red Light/Green Light and Telephone. They take turns performing the exercises while others sit and watch as "active" observers, paying attention to the details of the performance.

Paul and Neil finish the workshop by choreographing a short performance involving every student in attendance. Students learn the similarities between writing a performance and writing in class: each story requires a main idea and a beginning, middle and end. Finally, students learn to add appropriate details to bring the story to life.

The Art of Collaboration Residency Available
Grades K-12

Theater games or improvisation is a thrilling way for children to use their imagination, significantly improve their communication skills and tap into their own creative process. 

Elliott Banen’s inventive exercises encourage students to practice creative problem solving and improve observation and memory skills.

Participation in improvisation builds self-esteem and self-confidence and helps students feel more comfortable venturing into unfamiliar situations.

Theater games require focus and concentration while promoting collaboration and social skills.
Workshops for more advanced students focus on character building and scene development. 

Residency Available
Grades K-12 
 
Curriculum Connection: Language Arts Literacy

In this workshop students are introduced to the impressionistic effect that can be created using every color on the palette.  Artist Kevin Brooks explains and demonstrates  the technique of this  quick, spontaneous method of painting which teaches how pure direct color is applied for a brilliant effect. Students also learn that this historic style was made famous by such artists as Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro. 

Grades K-12 
Residency Available