No Kidding Shakespeare Camp 2012 Schedule

What will participants in the 2012 No Kidding Shakespeare Camp have to look forward to? A whole lot! Check out the scheduled events for this week-long immersion.

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Session Descriptions:

So that both new and returning campers can custom-build their camp experience, Campers may choose from two tracks: Basics and Advanced.  The Basic track is made up of explorations of the fundamentals of our rehearsal and exploration process at the ASC.  The advanced track will hone in on various topics under the heading of “Movement.”  Campers may pick and choose from Tracks A&B to create a personalized camp experience.  That said we will also be all together for much of every day, so we can get to know one another and have a great camp experience.

Plenary Classes (All Participants):

International Shakespeare Ralph Alan Cohen, Director of Mission at ASC, will take participants on a multimedia journey around the world through productions of Shakespeare.

Movement I-IV: ASC Actor and JMU professor Bob Jones will take participants on a four part exploration of Actor movement on the Blackfriars Stage:

Tuesday, June 26 (8:45-9:45 a.m.) - Moving in THE space, Movement on the stage, Creation of Environment. Homework:  Bring in text (5-10 lines), preferably memorized

Wednesday, June 27, (9-10 a.m.) - Applied Techniques:

Thursday, June 28, (9-10 a.m.) - Text-based movement, Experiment with embedded movement directions, Gestures, Begin short scene work

Friday, June 29, (9-10 a.m.) - Rehearse and perform scenes

Technique and Training I Stage Combat—ASC Actor and Fight Choreographer Jeremy West will teach participants some stage combat basics and a fight.

Movement of Text —University of Akron Professor and Scholar Adventurer, William Proctor Williams, will take participants through the journey plays make from a playwright’s imagination to a twenty-first century edition.

The Old Wive’s Tale—MFA Student Deb Streusand directs this transitional (from medieval to early modern) piece for participants enjoyment.

Technique and Training II Aural Design—ASC Actors demonstrate and provide insights into vocal and musical techniques

Brown Bag Rehearsal Observation—Participants will watch the work of ASC actors as they rehearse The Two Gentlemen of Verona, with Director Ralph Alan Cohen.

Texts: Indoors and Out –Scholar adventurer, William Proctor Williams, returns to show participants the clues bibliographers use to determine where plays were performed.

Technique and Training III Visual Design—ASC artists take particiapnts through the process of visual design as it applies to the plays in this and past seasons.

Moving from King John to Richard—Participants will consider sources and connections between Shakespeare’s King John and Goldman’sThe Lion in Winter.

Mapping Midsummer Worldwide—MBC professor Janna Segal will take Participants behind the scenes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s  links to colonialism and the East India Company, account for its references to sea travel and India, and then discuss a recent British production in India that traveled the globe and the internet.

Field Trip and Farewell Blue Mountain Brewery  Participants will visit a nearby brewery, take a tour, taste a flight, and toast the week.   

Track A:

Page & Stage I, Suiting the Action to the Word. Moving through: VERSE, PROSE, and INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE.  Perform scenes with selected pieces of text.

Page & Stage II, Shows on the Road. ASC on Tour actors talk about the experiences they’ve had bringing Shakespeare to audiences across the States.

Page & Stage III, Clown. ASC actor Daniel Kennedy takes participants through various exercises designed to help them find their inner clown.   

Page & Stage IV, Sonnets.  ASC actor Patrick Midgely explores Shakespeare’s sonnets with participants through movement.

Page & Stage V, Character and Movement. Introduction:  Lack of rehearsal time, typecasting, recognizable archetypes Things to look out for, Shakespeare vs his Contemporaries 

Page & Stage VI, Translating Shakespeare: Educators from three distinct backgrounds (one from China, one who teaches Deaf students, and one who taught Shakespeare in the UK) talk about teaching Shakespeare in different languages and countries.

Track B:

Page & Stage I, Scansion & Paraphrase.  The basis of all of the Actors’ work at ASC, and of all education programming. Participants will learn why iambic pentameter matters and how to find the acting clues in it.

Page & Stage II, R.O.A.D.S. to Rhetoric. ASC’s methods for identifying unique, playable structures in the language of Shakespeare’s characters will provide listeners and participants with a new understanding of how persuasion and language work.

Page & Stage III, Blackfriars Tour. Part history of Shakespeare’s theatres, part history of the ASC, this tour takes participants up, down and all around to consider why space matters.

Page & Stage IV, Preparing a Text. In this session, participants will learn how ASC cuts, cast, and prepares a text.

Page & Stage V, Audience Contact. In this interactive workshop, Participants will use ASC methods to explore how Shakespeare wrote the audience into his plays.

Page & Stage VI, Elizabethan Dance. In this interactive workshop, ASC actor Jeremy West will help participants learn an Elizabethan Dance and consider the textual clues Shakespare writes into plays from Romeo and Juliet to Much Ado About Nothing to The Winter’s Tale.  

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