Urban Arts Partnership | Middle School

Middle School

29 Nov 2010, 3:33 PM by Lisa LH

On Friday November 19th, students in the video afterschool program at IS 528 participated in a Master Class with actors Grant Chang and Vanessa Kai. These actors worked with teaching artist Theresa Wu on her latest film, Smoke and Mirrors, which the video students watched and discussed earlier that week. At the Master Class, Grant and Vanessa worked with students to identify ways in which acting for stage differs from acting for film.

Grant leads a physical warm-up with the students.

Vanessa discusses the importance of warming up the face and vocal muscles.

Vanessa acts out a scene with Kristalyn. The class then had to guess if they were demonstrating stage acting or film acting.

The students pose with Theresa, Vanessa, and Grant.

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Geordanny wrote:

I felt it was an honor to work with the actors - something that I want to be. My experience with Vanessa was very intense - she knows how to work with her emotions. It was fun. Because I want to b e an actor, it was very helpful.

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Ami wrote:

I thought that the class was fun because we got to see two actors from Ms. Theresa's movie, Smoke and Mirrors. I thought the exercise that we did together, was fun.

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Kiara wrote:

I was excited because it was my first time meeting actors. I thought the class was doing a good job listening to Vanessa and Grant. The class was most fun when everyone started to act - especially the imaginary color ball game.

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