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Teaching
Marian is teaching a variety of online classes for a variety of ages through Dallas Community School in Dallas Oregon. Contact the school for full details.
Marian has a series of How-to Mime videos on YouTube.
Two-week Theater Residency in the Schools
(when we're back open again)
PLAY PRODUCTIONS STARRING YOUR STUDENTS!
It's a two-week residency in which each week 25 students will rehearse then perform a 30-minute play at the end of their week.
For the first week, children audition on Monday and 25 students are selected. The rest of the week, including Monday, they rehearse Play 1 which they perform twice on Saturday.
For the second week, a new group of children audition on that Monday and they'll rehearse and perform Play 2.
The benefits of theater performance are:
It's a two-week residency in which each week 25 students will rehearse then perform a 30-minute play at the end of their week.
For the first week, children audition on Monday and 25 students are selected. The rest of the week, including Monday, they rehearse Play 1 which they perform twice on Saturday.
For the second week, a new group of children audition on that Monday and they'll rehearse and perform Play 2.
The benefits of theater performance are:
- it builds confidence;
- it increases imagination and empathy;
- it teaches perseverance;
- theater is intense team-work;
- students gain a sense of accomplishment;
- reading is emphasized as the students memorize lines;
- depending on the script, students learn about classic literature and history.