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About This Program

Programs > Transformation Imagination

Transformation Imagination

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Description

What tools does an actor need? Actors use their bodies, voices, and imaginations to transform themselves. In the theatre assembly Transformation Imagination, students use their imaginations to create a performance and become the animal characters in the African story/play, “Who’s In Rabbit’s House?” with masks, music, and props. Professional musician, Elias Mays Schutzman, provides music and sound effects for Transformation Imagination.

Sample Common Core connections
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Audience Limit 300

Program Length 45 minutes

Technical Requirements

- PA System (microphone will be provided by the artist, but an outlet connected to the existing sound system is needed)
- 1 outlet
- 10-foot extension cord
- 2 6-foot tables
- 3 chairs