Apprenticeships

The Creative Pulse 2013 Apprenticeships

Week 1
STUDIO | PERSONAL PERFORMANCES & FIELD PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
June 11-15, 9:00a - 12:00p, Masquer Theatre
The core philosophies and thematic areas which constitute the foundation of the graduate degree program for Master Teachers, including evolving personal performance and field project presentations, will be framed and explored in this morning session. This session addresses such areas as the Multiple Intelligences, Integrated Learning, Assessment and the Arts, and Qualitative Analysis, and it is intended for The Creative Pulse Master of Arts candidates only.

ART/MUSE/THTR 587:80, 1 credit
Instructors: Dr. Randy Bolton, Karen Kaufmann
 

Week 2
DIRECTING PERFORMANCES
June 24-28 (Mon - Fri), 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This apprenticeship will examine the practice of directing a performance piece, whether a full-scale theatre production, a small class performance or the one person show often referred to as teaching. There will be lots of practical opportunities including the direction of short plays that asks you to consider: developing a concept, keeping a production unified, elements of design, staging and blocking, and the role of the audience. 

ART/MUSE/THTR 588:80, 1 credit
Instructor:  Dr. Jillian Campana

THE BODY AS TEACHER: A VEHICLE TO SELF AWARENESS, SELF EXPRESSION AND COMMUNITY
June 18-22, 9:00a - 12:00p, Masquer Theatre
Based on our philosophy that the body is the fundamental mechanism for learning, this seminar will explore the movement based expressive arts from two perspectives: as a means of personal reflection and professional support for the teacher and as a toolbox of practices to incorporate into the classroom for use with students.  Experiential tools in the form of improvisational movement games, using collage, writing and imagery as a way “in” to movement and somatic awareness, and creating the space to be seen for every body and ability will be addressed.
While the basis of the seminar is experiential, philosophical constructs will be woven throughout our movement explorations, addressing such themes as:

  • Being in service while living in discovery.
  • Creating an environment of genuine curiosity and wonder, breathing and moving, appreciation and play, uncovering instead of inserting and listening and witnessing.
  • How body awareness leads to awareness of self and others – which creates a higher occurrence of self regulation in students.
  • Becoming a facilitator who can build loving, blame free, co-creative teams who then generate many solutions to any one outcome.

ART/MUSE/THTR 588:81, 1 credit
Instructor:  Lulu Steinberg, M.Ed & Lizzi Juda from Turning the Wheel Missoula

Week 3
CLAY:  LEARNING THROUGH MAKING
July 1-5, (Mon - Fri [no class 7/4]), 8:30a - 12:30p, Annex

Through working with clay we will develop an awareness of how we learn through making. Through the slow, tactile process of working with ceramics, we will discuss creative process and problem solving and review historical and contemporary ceramics to better understand cultural aesthetics, rituals, habits and technical developments. This pottery apprenticeship will address material culture and the instinct to create.

ART/MUSE/THTR 588:82, 1 credit
Instructor:  Julia Galloway

SEE-SAW-SEEN:  MASK-MAKING
July 1-5, (Mon - Fri [no class 7/4]), 8:30a - 12:30p, Annex

Our faces tell our story, but what are the masks we wear as teachers and as ourselves? Through the art of mask making, this apprenticeship will take you through the steps of casting faces and actualizing two very different versions of yourself: interpersonal and intrapersonal.

ART/MUSE/THTR 588:82, 1 credit
Instructor:  Laura Alvarez

Week 4
THE PHYSICAL ACTOR IN THE CLASSROOM
July 8-12 (Mon - Fri), 9:00a - 12:00p
This apprenticeship is a studio-based exploration of developing character from the outside-in. Through improvisations and text-based work, we will investigate various techniques and perspectives that foreground the role the physical body plays in the creation of a role. Through theatre games, workshops, and exercises, we will analyze and discuss the ways in which we carry our social circumstances upon/within our bodies. Finally, participants in the apprenticeship will devise/adapt theatre games and short lessons that consider the body the primary instrument of learning in the classroom.

ART/MUSE/THTR 588:83, 1 credit
Instructor:  Cohen Amb

DIGITAL STORYTELLING
July 8-12 (Mon - Fri), 9:00a - 12:00p

Teacher as Actor: In this apprenticeship, teachers get to take a walk in the shoes of an actor. In only one short fun-filled week, students will travel from warm-ups and rehearsal to full performance of a play scene. Units will include warm-up improv games, blocking a scene, analyzing a character via the Stanislavski approach to acting, performing an improvised duet scene, a memorized cutting from a full-length script, and a monologue, and "Theatre For Social Change." Discussions will include Teacher as Actor, holding your student's attention via voice and body language, and teaching concepts and subject matter with lesson plans that involve Creative Drama.
 

ART/MUSE/THTR 588:84, 1 credit
Instructor:  Media Arts Faculty

Week 5
STUDIO | PERSONAL PERFORMANCES
July 9-13, 9:00a - 12:00p, Masquer Theatre
The core philosophies and thematic areas which constitute the foundation of the graduate degree program for Master Teachers, including evolving personal performance and field project presentations, will be framed and explored in this morning session. This session addresses such areas as the Multiple Intelligences, Integrated Learning, Assessment and the Arts, and Qualitative Analysis, and it intended for The Creative Pulse Master of Arts candidates only.

ART/MUSE/THTR 587:81, 1 credit
Instructors: Dr. Randy Bolton, Karen Kaufmann