WORKSHOP PROGRAM
JANUARY 2010
PYT is the leading youth theatre company in Western Sydney. By engaging with young people from across the region, PYT creates new, innovative and inclusive performing arts opportunities lead by collaborative processes and participation. PYT workshops are inclusive of all abilities.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
When: Monday 11 January 2010 – Friday 15 January 2010
Age: 5 – 10years
Time: 10.30 am, 12 pm & 1.30 pm
Cost: For ticketing enquiries please go to www.anmm.gov.au
Where: 2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour
Description:
For thousands of years, humans everywhere – sometimes inspired by living animals or even fossils – have brought mythic creatures to life in stories, songs and works of art.
Today these creatures, from the powerful dragon to the soaring phoenix, continue to thrill, terrify, entertain and inspire us. We seem to catch glimpses of these creatures all around us: hiding beneath the ocean waves, running silently through the forest and soaring among the clouds. Some symbolise danger. Others, we think, can bring us luck or joy. Together mythic creatures give shape to humankind’s greatest hopes, fears and dreams.
Mythic Creatures – Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids is organised with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in collaboration with the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, The Field Museum, Chicago, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec and Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta.
Mythic Creatures – Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids traces the cultural and natural history roots of some of the world’s most enduring mythological creatures, bringing to light the ways in which people have been inspired by nature to envision and depict these strange and wonderful creatures.
The Australian national maritime Museum, in association with PYT will be running:
Mythic theatre: Creatures of Greek mythology
Take part in drama workshops and create a world of ancient fantasy, imagining stories about the majestic flying Pegasus, the beastly Minotaur or the many headed slobbering hound Cerberus.
BLACKTOWN ARTS CENTRE
SCREEN ACTING
When: Monday 18 January 2010
Age: 13-17 yrs
Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: $12, $10 Friends of BAC and concession per participant per workshop
Where 78 Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown
This course teaches participants the art of acting for film and television. The facilitator will lead the group through improvisation exercises, character analysis and acting to camera.
DANCE THEATRE
When: Tuesday 19 January 2010
Age: 14-17 yrs
Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: $12, $10 Friends of BAC and concession per participant per workshop
Where: 78 Flushcombe Rd Blacktown
Dance Theatre will use contemporary dance, music, theatre and design to capture the imagination of the participants. They will be invited to explore, create and play, and to work as collaborators.
Bookings are essential for all workshops by calling the Blacktown Arts Centre on 9839 6558. Places are strictly limited. Call the Centre today to avoid disappointment.
POWERHOUSE YOUTH THEATRE, FAIRFIELD
STREET DANCE
When: Wednesday 20 January 2010– Friday 22 January 2010
Age: 15 to 18 years
Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: $10
Where: 19 Harris St Fairfield
Spaces are strictly limited to 15.
So you think you can dance?
Or at least you’ve always wanted to give it a go… STREET DANCE is a workshop in the latest street dance moves, culminating in a performance for friends and family.
For further information please contact claudia(AT)pyt.com.au
Or download an application here
WAREABOUTS: PHYSICAL & VISUALTHEATRE
The Wareabouts training program provides skills development and performance opportunities for young emerging artists in physical and visual theatre. As a production group, the Wareabouts Ensemble explores performance art traditions and devises captivating outdoor theatre work for spaces and audiences in Fairfield.
Sidewalk Games
The Sidewalk Games are workshops in using Games for Performance. Workshops are designed for those aged 16-29 with previous performance experience or who have an interest in outdoor performances. The sessions explore Improvisation and Games, both indoors and outdoors, that can be used to create performance and develop performing skills.
When: Saturday 16 January 2010
Age: 16-29
Time: 1pm – 5pm
Cost: FREE
Where: 19 Harris St, Fairfield.
For further information, please contact andy(AT)pyt.com.au
Or download an application here
