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2010-11 Season
Theater and Dance
"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theatre is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
—Sir Laurence Olivier
We have discovered that the process of using all aspects of theatre and dance as an educational tool to inspire greatness, particularly during preparations for faculty-staged productions and student-directed Winterfest projects, takes this shape:
- Student-artists form a vision;
- That vision galvanizes inventive ideas;
- Inventive ideas demand experimentation;
- Experimentation causes evaluation;
- Evaluation inspires independent thinking;
- Independent thinking motivates the selection of best answers from among many best answers;
- Selecting from among many best answers requires the exercise of judgement;
- The exercise of judgement leads to taking responsibility for final choices;
- Final choices culminate in a public performance of the work.
The public performance brings home to our students a great truth about the making of Art: that the quality of the product reflects the quality of the process. The fact that the process includes a great deal of laughter and play, as well as practice and study, suggests that students also learn a second great truth about the making of Art: that the joy is in the work.