Hi My Friends,
I hope you’re great and having a wonderful summer, despite all the rain that we’ve been having! I’ve had the privilege of observing Theatre Adventure’s last week of camp and I really enjoyed watching them.
This week, there was a visiting artist, Nettie Lane, leading an Artful Playful Immersive workshop. Nettie hopes to bring out each participant through Artful Play which can take the form of clowning, improv, theater games, circus arts, and much more.
Each student took a turn to go on stage and take a bow and introduce themselves and the students who are on Zoom, the window of Zoom is their stage. One particular student stands out in my mind. Brian has been with Theatre Adventure ever since Theatre Adventure first started and he’s been really shy, but this time, when he went up on the stage, Brian went up with so much confidence and head held high. Everyone was happy to see this and they all clapped with happiness!!
This summer, we have new people that have joined Theatre Adventure’s camp! I saw a sweet young girl that was sitting on the stage with her legs crossed. Kali had the biggest smile on her little face, she sat on the stage looking so happy.
Then, Tyler, known as Harry Potter, went up on the stage with a big drum and started drumming.
Nettie brought out red noses and everyone took a turn on the stage, wearing these red noses and having fun!! The students, on Zoom, were having a lot of fun wearing red noses. Elijah rolled his nose around in his hand for a while, then gave it back to his mom, very gently.
I sat in another morning of camp and it was very lively with music and dancing! People went up on stage again with their red noses and bowed. This is so cool as there were two clowns with red noses who entered the stage together. They were pretending not to see the other person and when they did see each other, they had lots of different reactions. Dee and Jazmin went up and did an awesome job and were so funny.
One of the neatest things that I have seen in a long time was when Anthony and Rachel did their act of meeting each other with their red noses on. Theirs were so moving and I saw Anthony had the biggest smile on his face at Rachel. She was acting goofy! Then, Rich and Elijah were a duo! Rich came out as a pirate and a clown in one!! This made Elijah smile from ear to ear and made noises with glee. Both Anthony and Elijah were heartwarming to watch!
They had a great dance party with Rich and Rachel! Rich sang songs that some of the students wrote and Rich sang them and Rachel’s movements. They had to mimic what Rachel was doing. They were having such a wonderful time dancing. Jenny and Rachel did a copy game where the first person did one thing and they had to copycat all down the line.
This was tricky to do with a large group, then they switched to drumming where one person was drumming up on the stage and people were dancing and then people would suddenly stop dancing in midstream. It was funny to see because one minute, they were dancing up a storm and having fun, and then everyone stopped abruptly. It was really cool to see! The last one was two drummers and some Troupe Members dancing.
I really enjoyed observing the last week of camp where Nettie did an amazing job of teaching about discovering the clowns that are within us. Everyone really enjoyed themselves so much and they were dancing up a storm!
I hope that you each have a wonderful summer! Thank you so much for your monthly support. We are grateful to know that you care about Theatre Adventure.
Melody Squires
Board Member, Marketing Person
