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West Side Story Study Guide in Spanish!

North Carolina Theatre Board Member Mimi Stapleton has created a Spanish language study guide for the Target Student Preview Night of West Side Story! Here's a sneak peek! I didn't do well in Spanish, so I have no idea what this says, but I love that NC Theatre is reaching out the the Spanish speaking community! Go NC Theatre!

2009 Noche de avance para estudiantes presentado por Target
West Side Story
October 16, 2009
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium | 7:00 PM

Sessión de preguntas con los actores después del ensayo.

Notado por los críticos de Nueva York y Londres como uno de los logros principales en la historia del teatro de la media centuria, West Side Story es una adaptación moderna de la obra Romeo Y Julieta de Shakespeare. El contexto de la historia es Manhattan, Tony Y María son Romeo y Julieta. Los novios luchan por estar juntos en medio de tensiones raciales y violencia.

Libro por Arthur Laurents
Música por Leonard Bernstein
Lírica por Stephen Sondheim
Musical basada en Romeo Y Julieta por William Shakespeare

Aviso sobre el contenido
Por favor fíjese que cierto tema no se conviene para algunas audiencias. La discreción parental se aconseja.

Datos Importantes

· West Side Story abrió en Broadway en 1957.

· En 1961 la película ganó diez premios de los Academy Awards, incluyendo mejor película.

· La revista Time encontró la danza y la guerra entre bandas más apasionante que la historia de amor

· West Side Story lanzó la carrera de Stephen Sondheim, quien se hizo uno de los artistas más notables del teatro musical en América.

Preguntas de Estudio

Language Arts
1. West Side Story se basa en la obra de William Shakespeare, La Tragedia de Romeo Y Julieta. ¿Considera West Side Story como una tragedia? ¿Defina la palabra “tragedia” y discute por qué o por qué no sea tragedia.

Conexiones modernas
2. El conflicto principal en West Side Story está entre el étnico y las diferencias culturales de la banda de puertorriqueños, los Sharks, y los caucásicos, los Jets. Las tensiones raciales eran extremas en los años 50 en América. ¿Cómo se compara al siglo XXI? ¿Cómo son las tensiones raciales evidentes en nuestra sociedad moderna?

Dance Arts
3. Jerome Robbins adquirió los papeles de director y coreógrafo para la producción original de West Side Story; pocos han alcanzado una grandeza artística en estas dos posiciones. La coreografía de Robbins ayudó cambiar la cara del teatro musical por acentuar la danza para mover la acción del cuento. Da ejemplos de cómo los movimientos en los bailes ayuda narrar el cuento. ¿Qué diferente tipo de danza observa?

2009 NCTC High School Play Festival - Registration Now Open!

The 2009 NCTC Regional High School Play Festival will take place on October 30/31 and November 6/7.

Registration is now open! 

NC Shakespeare Festival Offers Teacher Workshops

The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival will be offering Hands On Shakespeare Teacher Workshops for middle and secondary English and Drama teachers as part of it Outreach Education program.  The workshops are scheduled for April 25, July 25 and October 24 at The Festival’s new High Point facility, Spirit Center, located at 807 W. Ward Ave., High Point.

“Hands On Shakespeare is designed to enhance teachers’ performance and presentation skills with Shakespeare texts”, says Pedro Silva, The Festival’s Managing and Artistic Director.  “The concept is that as teachers become more knowledgeable about and comfortable with Shakespeare’s performativity, they can better impart this quality to their students and, hopefully, more fully engage them in the exploration and study of the plays.”

The workshops are introductory in nature, designed for teachers eager to better handle the plays’ language and theatrical potential.  Each of the workshops is identical in content and focus, though each will use a different play as the key tool to develop teachers’ performance skills, as follows: April 25 – Macbeth; July 25 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; October 24 – Romeo & Juliet.

Workshops will run from 12:00 – 6:00 each scheduled Saturday.  The price for a workshop is $99 and includes all materials and refreshments.  The Festival recommends teachers inquire at their schools about funding support and CEU teacher certification workshop credit.  Space is limited.

All workshops will be headed by Martha Mendenhall, The Festival’s Outreach Education Artistic Associate.  Martha has over twenty years experience teaching students and educators and working with young people on Shakespeare productions. 

Call The Festival at 336-841-2273, x226 to register or for more information or email joan.andrews@ncshakes.org.  Registration forms may also be downloaded from NCSF’s website, www.ncshakes.org, by viewing Hands On Shakespeare on the site’s Outreach and Education heading.  The registration deadline for workshops is 2 weeks prior to each workshop date.

Joint Subcommittee on Arts Education

The NC Legislature’s Joint Subcommittee on Arts Education will meet in Raleigh on the following days:

Wednesday, October 22, 1 - 3pm, Legislative Building 1228 *Note that this is a change from Tuesday, October 21*

Tuesday, November 18, 10am – noon, Legislative Building 1228

Tuesday, December 9, 10am – noon, Legislative Building 1228

Please make every effort to attend these very important meetings!

newsobserver.com | Home-schoolers of color

Very interesting trend. . .

I've never been a huge fan of homeschooling, but I can absolutely see the case for pulling a black child out of the public school system and teaching him or her at home.

An interesting lead for education specialists and people looking to extend an invitation.

National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance was created by a woman in Boone.

By Cara Bonnett, Correspondent

When Dotty Barco's oldest son, Caleb, began to struggle with third-grade math, she remembered the statistic she'd run across while writing a college paper.

According to the National Urban League, black male achievement begins to decline as early as fourth grade. Blacks continue to fall behind through high school, in test scores, grades and dropout rates. Fewer than half of black males graduate in four years.

More. . .

Link: newsobserver.com | Home-schoolers of color.