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What Are the Actor's Tools?

December 28, 2023
This blog discusses the essential tools actors use in their performances, emphasizing the body, voice, and imagination. Highlighting how actors use these tools to convey emotions, create atmospheres, and effectively engage audiences in live performances.
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Getting Ready for Drama Work

December 28, 2023
In drama, students practice warm-up exercises to develop their social, communicative, and imaginative skills, essential for quality performance. Teachers guide students to become an ensemble, engage creative choices, and provide side coaching to focus on effective communication and performance.
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Designing Drama Learning Experiences for the Classroom

December 28, 2023
This article presents several ways to integrate drama in your classroom through emphasizing the story element with dramatic conflict, strong structure, and memorable characters.
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Coaching Students in the Creative Process

November 8, 2023
According to the book "Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education" most of classtime should be spent on "Students-at-work". This involves students creating works of art while teachers provide side coaching. Teachers guide students individually, fostering creativity through questions rather than direct instruction. This approach inspires problem solving, personal expression, reflection and more. The 4 studio structures can be applied to various art forms, including dance, theater, film, music, and the visual arts studio.
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Teachers as Artists: Get to Know Teresa Love

April 21, 2021
Laura Giles introduces Teresa Love, a seasoned drama and arts educator. Teresa shares her commitment to preparing teachers to bring theatre into their student's lives. She shares how teachers can include storytelling, puppetry, theatre games, improvisation, and other integrated activities every day.
Laura Giles

"Aw...," "Ha Ha!", and "Ah-Ha!": Finding Flow in Drama Warm-ups

October 20, 2020
Teresa Love, a drama education expert, shares strategic warm-ups to prepare students voice, body and mind (the actor's tools) for drama work in the classroom.
Teresa Love

Life is Better With the Arts

October 13, 2020
What is the impact of arts in the classroom? Laura Giles shares how the Arts for Life Utah Initiative began, and how the Utah Partnership for Arts Education advocate for arts education in Utah schools.
Laura Giles

Non-tech Arts Activities at Home: Drama

June 3, 2020
Teresa Love shares drama activities to balance the large doses of screentime during the pandemic. These activities help family groups to deepen their relationships during the pandemic with activities that provide much-needed centering.
Teresa Love

Utah Women’s History to Be Celebrated in 2020

February 7, 2020
Laura Giles writes about Better Days 2020, a nonprofit organization dedicated to popularizing Utah women’s history through art, education, and legislation.
Laura Giles

The 150th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Unites History and the Arts in Elementary Classrooms

May 9, 2019
Read about the 150-year anniversary celebration of the Golden Spike Ceremony. Emma Smith highlights six of the BYU ARTS Partnership's lessons for third to sixth graders which use art, music, dance, and theater to teach students about the Transcontinental Railroad.
Emma Smith

 

 
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