Session II (July 16-20, 2007)- for Students grades 7 through 12

Tuesday - Friday -- Each day you will participate in the 4 art forms that you selected on Monday.

Creative Dance -- Two ways to dance and move! Space Dance: Using your imagination and your own special ways of moving--hopping, running, skipping, twisting, sliding, swirling--you’ll discover how to create an imaginary space through movement. Time Dance: Learn choreography, and dance to rhythms that give time to music.

Graphic Writing-- Let time and space come together on the page as you write an original story or adapt a story you know. You will then create collages and drawings to make the dialogues and scenes of your graphic novel come to life.

Theater and Fables-- We will explore the elements of time and space with fables, masks, puppets, and our own imaginations. We will enter the animal kingdom and discover the viewpoints of our furry and feathered friends. Next with masks we will investigate the creative possibilities of our everyday lives. And finally our puppets will take us into intergalactic regions yet to be discovered. Theater games, improvisation, and more!

Soundscapes to Beatscapes -- You’ll learn how to combine time and space to write your own musical compositions and create beats to fit them. We will use traditional instruments, tone chimes, Boomwhackers, found objects and your own invented instruments to create unique works of art. No previous musical experience necessary.

Outdoor Art -- We’ll collect the materials of nature, like leaves, grass, twigs, feathers, stones, earth, and water and combine them with art materials to create outdoor collages and sculptures. Explore the patterns of nature and learn how to create balance in the space where you place your art piece. Discover how your sculpture changes with time and the wind, rain, and sun of its space.

Session II - Workshop Choices

On the attached registration form, you will choose 4 of the these workshops. Each day, Monday through Friday, you will participate in 75-minute sessions in your 4 selected

workshops.

Psychedelic Shakespeare -- Unrequited love, difficult parental relations, revenge--just as relevant today as when Shakespeare wrote 400 years ago. Explore collisions of time and space through the plays of the Bard. With shifts of time and space, we will reinterpret and act out the plays and themes that Shakespeare made popular. Warring families could be rival high schools, and ambitious thanes might be modern politicians.

Theatrical Time Travel -- Become time travelers and discover how space and time have affected the creation of theater throughout history. Begin in prehistoric times, move on to the Golden Age of Greece, then to Medieval England, and next to the Globe Theatre. In each era we will investigate the form of theater which reflected the lives of the people of that time through costumes, props, scripts, and your creativity. Finally we will imagine the theater of the future.

Reality Your Way -- Watercolors -- Experimenting with a variety of professional quality watercolor papers and materials, you’ll transform the “what is” to “what it can be” by distorting or transforming the everyday into several mini paintings and a larger painting from your own artistic reality of time and space.

Altered Space--Altered Time -- Take a book and alter it to create a space to collect perceptions from others. Use paint, collage, drawing, and assemblage to design a cover and page in your own book. Then pass your book on – round robin style – for others to leave their perceptions – their mark of time and space. Take your book home at the end of the week as a glimpse back to your time in this space.

Electronica or Kickin’ It Old School -- Become a record producer! Create beats, grooves, sound creations using Audacity or Macintosh I-Life suite software. Then record your music using digital audio software. Collaborate with others or work on your own to create and warp time and space. No previous experience necessary.

Unidentified Moving Objects -- Without movement, time would not exist. Space is empty nothingness until objects and living beings inhabit it and move through it. We will examine our own sense of time by experimenting with the speed and rhythm of our movement. At the same time, we will also explore how we fill space with body movement and placement, the creation of physical shapes, and the relationships among dancers. From our discoveries, we will craft original dances that help us see how time and space blend.

Registration Form

To receive the Foothills Summer Arts registration form and brochure, please contact Director Anne Geller Foothills Arts Center, 108 Orchard St., Farmington, ME 04938 (207) 778-0448; info@foothillsarts.org; www.foothillsarts.org.

Sliding & reduced fees

For families who cannot afford the full fee, we can arrange a reduced fee. On the registration form, you can indicate how much you can pay. Please enclose a note explaining your request for reduced fee.

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