Creative Dramatics & Voice with Ms. Rezzelle

Harnessing our imaginations and creativity, students will dive into immersive storytelling this Fall. Creative Dramatics and Voice is a process-based form of theatrical work that focuses on bringing stories to life through movement, voice, and imagination. We will explore a new seasonal story every month, peeling back the layers of events that happen and bringing them to life for a new kind of theatrical experience each week! Puppetry, collaborative storytelling, and play-acting will be central to our class, so get ready to move around and have fun!

Through Creative Dramatics, students will practice speech concepts such as visualization and articulation, while working with others and harnessing their imaginative skills. This class is open to 4-7 year olds.

Lotus and Ivy Drama Scope and Sequence through the grades

 K-1 Creative Drama and Voice:

In creative drama, our students learn foundational acting skills. We focus on using our bodies expressly and representationally to act out different animals, people, and emotions that we feel. We use charming seasonal stories to act out, explore, and create different production elements to bring the story to life at home and online together such as puppets, masks, and simple scarf-based costumes and sets. 

Grade 2-3 Theatre and Speech:

In Creative Storytelling and Drama, we pick up where we left off in Creative Drama, but focusing on how we use our voices and imagination to tell stories, poems, and speak with people in our everyday lives. Storytelling focal points include finding levels in our voices to show different levels of emotional states, using our imagination to turn abstract objects into other objects, and most importantly having fun! 

Grade 4-5 Theatre and Speech:

Fourth and 5th Graders will continue their knowledge of theatre training by focusing on character building in this course. We will still explore the foundational acting “tool kit” of voice, body, and imagination, but we will focus more on how our bodies can reflect a character, how our voices can reflect that all on the Zoom screen! This class will work on a play to be presented at the end of the semester. 

Grade 6-8 Theatre and Speech:

Improvisation, Scene Study, Physical Theatre, oh my! Our middle school Theatre and Speech class is all about using our whole-selves to create theatre magic! We will be exploring physical theatre techniques such as pantomime, improv skills through improvisation games and scene, and character work within scene study. This “all-round” class offers a great introduction to performing to students who have never taken a theatre class before and skills practice to those who are involved with local theatres or have taken a Lotus and Ivy Theatre and Speech class in the past.