Kelsey Kids Playshops 2010-2011

"PLAYtime" is for students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade, and it meets on Saturdays from 9:00am to 10:00am

In "PLAYtime", children explore movement and storytelling as they dramatize stories. Through creative drama, children develop expression and self confidence by playing with language and pantomime. Meets for 10 Saturdays and culminates with a "SHARING" for family and friends.

"PLAYing Around With Theatre" is for students in 3^rd through 5^th grade and it meets from 10:15am to 11:30 am

"PLAYing Around With Theatre" classes encourage students to become other characters, cooperating with one another as they create their own improvisational scenes. Meets for 8 Saturdays and culminates with a "SHARING" for family and friends. 

Fall Session:

Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, Dec. 4, 2010 SHARING-Dec. 4, 2010

NOTE: No class on Nov. 27

Cost - $195.00

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Winter Session:

Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 26, Mar. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2011 SHARING-Mar. 26, 2011

NOTE: No class on Feb. 19

Cost - $195.00

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PLAYSHOPS Master Class for students in 5th-7th grade 10:15 AM-12:15 PM.

This full-year acting class will begin in September 2010 and run for twenty-six 2-hour sessions. This class is for 5th-7th grade students who have attended two semesters of Playshops, or the equivalent of a year of acting classes elsewhere, and permission/audition of the instructor. This class will devise, script, rehearse and present an original play for the final performance—Saturday, April 16th, 2011 at 11am

Prior to the start of classes in September, students must read Alice in Wonderland.

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MASTER CLASS Session:

Sept. 11, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov. 13, 20, Dec. 4, 11, 18, 2010 MINI-SHARING-Dec. 18, 2010

Jan.  8, 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 26, Mar. 5, 12, 19, 26, Apr. 2, 9, 16, 2011 SHARING-Apr. 16, 2011 at 11am

NOTE: No MC on Sept. 18, Nov. 6, 27, Dec. 25, Jan. 1, 8, Feb 19

Cost - $400.00

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Recent students exclaim:

"Scarlett said that her heaven would be at Kelsey Theater." 

"Kelsey Theater is like family now. "

"A Special Thank you to Jean and Lott for helping our son to find his character voice ;-)"

Kelsey Kids Playshops are held in conjunction with Youth Stages under the supervision of its founder, Jean Prall Rosolino. Ms. Rosolino, who received her MA in Educational Theatre from NYU, founded Youth Stages in 1996 to provide high quality participatory drama and theatre programs to area youth. From 1987-1995 she was the Education Director of Creative Theatre. Jean also conducts drama classes for Princeton Day School, Montgomery Recreation Department, Educational Arts Team in Jersey City, and she teaches four classes for children with developmental delays for VSA arts of New Jersey. In addition to teaching, Jean tours Youth Stages' one-woman show of The Three Bears for preschoolers, and has performed on the Kelsey stage as Dora Strang in Equus, Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web, Bella in Lost in Yonkers, and the Cook and Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland. Her directing credits include innumerable class presentations, Our Town for VSA arts of New Jersey, and the Youth Stages touring productions of Little Red Riding Hood, Two Marys, Five Jacks and One Very Big Shoe, Genies, Lamps and Dreams: Tales of the Arabian Nights, and Aesop and the Bully: A Fable for Our Times.

Please note: There are NO tuition refunds.

Contact us at 609-570-3566 to register or email at projects@mccc.edu

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