Arts Elevated (FAC)

Musical theatre thrives on momentum, musical, emotional, and communal. This workshop invites theatre teachers to rethink efficiency not as control, but as clarity, trust, and intention.

Participants will learn a director’s toolkit for staging musical numbers quickly while preserving narrative integrity and expanding student agency. We’ll focus on how to set strong objectives, read the emotional architecture of music, and use stage space as a storytelling partner. Rather than dictating movement, directors learn how to shape environments where students discover solutions that serve character and story.

This session is for educators who want rehearsals that move faster and feel more alive—and who believe that students do their best work when they are trusted as artists.

Developing an ensemble that can work, intrinsically with each other is at the core of a good creative team. There is also a need to present exciting and dynamic movement as well as an organization of space to create engaging theatre with. Using aspects of the Viewpoints method, developed and codified by the SITI company under the leadership of Anne Bogart, participants will get a crash course that is hands on. In this session we will explore and examine the 9 Viewpoints and exercises to help in creating strong teams and compositions, offering many options towards staging in new ways that are practical and easily applicable.