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Give the Gift of Learning with DCPA Education
Give the gift of the magic of theatre and creativity to your friends, family and loved ones this holiday season with this DCPA Education Holiday Gift Guide. Online classes, workshops, private coaching and more make great gifts! This holiday season might look a little different for all of us, but DCPA Education is ready to make it memorable by igniting the imaginations of your whole family and sparking wonder through our online classes.
Through our online programming, DCPA Education remains committed to each of our classes being facilitated “live” rather than pre-recorded. This commitment maintains the bonds of student-teacher and the power of communal learning and peer-to-peer discovery. Classes continue to empower whole-body learning, movement and theatricality.
These festive and playful ideas will check every box on your nearest and dearest’s wish list.
For our full class listing – visit denvercenter.org/education
Scholarships available.
DCPA EDUCATION HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
For your active, story loving and craft creating kindergartener or first grader:
K – 1st Grade Zoom In On Masterpieces
Visually and kinesthetically explore styles and techniques of the Masters, not only with crayon and paint, but through the actor’s tools of body, voice, and imaginative play. Each online session takes a masterpiece of classic or contemporary visual art “off of the wall” and theatricalizes it “on-screen.” Delivered to your door, prior to our time together, are all the parts necessary for the craft and puppet making.
4 sessions • $90 (includes craft packet) • 1 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor
K – 1st Grade Staging Stories: Storybooks
Step into stories! Online and alive with theatrical play, these sessions will each be built around activating a beloved or new-to-you storybook. With opportunities for imagination, problem-solving and creating characters, these are sure to be four Saturday mornings rich with creativity. Prior to our time together, all the necessary parts for craft and puppet making are delivered to your door.
4 sessions • $90 (includes craft packet) • 1 hr class time
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor
For the child in your life who is missing their best friend and needs little creative friend time cheer:
2nd – 5th Grade BFF Theatredaze
Gather your bestie to join in an online creative dramatic play! Your friendship will be the key to these improvisation and theatre exercises. Discover something new about each other and work together to celebrate the ways friendship and community make for great theatre!
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Each registration is for two students – you and your BFF!
Sat • Feb 27 • 1 – 3pm
Rachel Taylor & Samuel Wood
For the song in the heart of your Broadway bound teen:
Middle School Company: Musical Mash-up
How can musical theatre be made online – don’t you need a stage? Your place becomes our space for creating a musical that is as original and as curious as you and your co-creating theatre-makers. Using the songs and inspiration of Broadway to craft the next musical mash-up of characters, stories, and songs, this class will challenge your creative genius and triple threat skills. This class culminates in an online sharing of your work.
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on February 20.
6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 20 • 1 – 3pm
Rachel Taylor & Emily Doherty
High School Teen Company: Songs of Chicago
5.6.7.8! C’mon into the whoopee spot where the hearts are cold but the songs are hot! The hearts of the characters in Kander and Ebb’s world-renowned musical may be cold, ruthless, and selfish but you’ll join in a creative community, ensemble-based, process to create your own online theatrical exploration of this musical’s “all that jazz” songs and situations.
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on February 20.
6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 20 • 1 – 3pm
Samuel Wood & Emily Doherty
For teen film lovers and voice actors:
High School Acting on Camera Workshop
Do you have a burning desire to work in film and television, but are intimidated by being in front of the camera? Get ready to approach the work with the director calls action, “Action!” Learn to apply basic acting techniques to on-camera skills and build confidence in front of the camera.
1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time
Thu • Feb 18 • 3:30-5pm • Timothy McCracken
High School Commercial Voice Over Workshop
Unlock your voice potential and explore the world of voice over! Step up to the mic and learn the basics of the radio and television voice-over industry. Join this virtual class – analyzing and activating commercial copy, learning to take direction, and increasing your versatility.
1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time
Tue • Feb 23 • 3:30-5pm • Justin Walvoord
For curious grown-ups, who love to learn new things:
Introduction to Acting
Do you want to act, but aren’t sure where to start? Join us on Zoom for this four-week class that is designed specifically for the beginning actor and will teach you the fundamentals of the craft. The class highlights quick and powerful ways to make your performance natural and spontaneous. Discover the building blocks of acting through improvisation, theatre exercises and character work.
4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one the four days listed)
Tue • Jan 12 – Feb 2 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Samuel Wood
Wed • Jan 13 – Feb 3 • 12-2pm • Timothy McCracken
Tue • Feb 16 – Mar 9 • 12-2pm • Timothy McCracken
Wed • Feb 17 – Mar 10 • 6:30-8:30pm • Justin Walvoord
Discovering Shakespeare
Enter the world of the Bard in this online introduction to the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare. This class creates rich opportunities to explore text analysis and character interpretation as well as gaining an understanding for the ways and wiles of Elizabethan manners and modes informing the why and what of Shakespeare’s writing. This offering is a great starting point or an inviting brush-up, of your Shakespeare and welcomes actors and readers who cherish the universality of this master playwright.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Feb 9 • 6:30-8:30pm • Samuel Wood
Creativity: Thinking Outside (And All Around) the
Activate your creativity! Igniting curiosity with creativity is the heartbeat of engagement with the world. Whether that world is your world of work or play, this online master class -facilitated by a duo of theatre-makers – will incorporate kinesthetic and tactile experiences designed to inspire creative thinking and energize your creative power. This offering invites all manner of Creatives – theatre and beyond – to join this exploration. Start the new year with a creative edge!
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Feb 25 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Rachel Taylor & Allison Watrous
Private coaching for the business professionals in your life:
Coaching for actors and professionals – We coach individuals and small groups using engaging exercises in one of our 14 rehearsal studios. Let us create a custom coaching experience based on your acting and business professional goals.
Fun and fabulous gifts for your partner or spouse:
PartnerProv: Improv Date Night
Great gift for Valentine’s Day! Flowers and champagne the theatrical way: through improvisational play! The joyous dynamics of discovering each other’s creative response will be at the “heart” of this online date night. Throw inhibitions aside, build confidence explore the fun and spontaneous world of improv! Using group activities, short-form games, and bold characters, this class will explore the power of yes and the power of play. Don’t miss this opportunity to improv together! All levels welcome!
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Each registration is for two people- you and your special someone!
Mon • Feb 15 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Allison Watrous & Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski
Mamma Mia & You-A: Dance Party Date
My! My! How can you resist this chance to release your inner ABBA?! No need to pack your bags for Greece or the music hall, the songs and moves of this beloved jukebox musical come to you! This date night has everything you’d expect from a musical but you and yours are cast with other couples looking for a Dancing Queen, a Super Trouper, or a Chiquititta. Grab your Honey Honey and Let Your Mother Know that you Voulez Vous this all singing all dancing online party! Great gift for Valentine’s Day!
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Each registration is for two people- you and your special someone!
Wed • Feb 24 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Piper Lindsay Arpan & Jake Mendes
For those who want to step into the world of voice over and voice acting:
INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL VOICE OVER
Unlock your voice potential and explore the world of voice over! Step up to the mic and learn the basics of the radio and television voice-over industry. Join this virtual class – analyzing and activating commercial copy, learning to take direction, and increasing your versatility.
4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Jan 14 – Feb 4 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Tia Marlier
Gift certificates for the whole family:
Whether your friends and family are frequent DCPA visitors, class veterans or new to DCPA offerings, a gift certificate is always a welcome surprise. DCPA gift certificates can be used for classes, private coaching and future DCPA performances. Great gift to send the warmest of wishes!
We look forward to seeing you in class! May all your days be merry and bright! The warmest of holiday wishes from the DCPA!
