Description
The Class Coordinator organizes Ensemble classes for the membership/people who are looking to become members.
Current Structure
The Class Coordinator has sole responsibility of planning and scheduling classes.
Recent Classes and Suggestions
- Theater Games (Early in the show process, even right before readthrough, is great for cast/crew bonding)
- Stage Combat (Ted Eaton has taught this in 2008, 2010, and 2012 - every other year seems to work well).
- How to Be a Man (Sabrina Neuman's class on portraying gender onstage)
- The Physicality of Acting (good for new members)
- Scansion
- Tech classes including Vectorworks, All About Lights, How to Use the Sewing Machine, etc.
- Ensemble Website Class
Former Directors Contact
ensemble-directors@mit.edu
Old Structure
There will be 8 ensemble classes per term. The structure is as follows:
1. The first class is introduction/bonding - making an ensemble.
2. The second should be on what it means to be text based - how do you do text analysis - how do you design/act for.
3. There should be one class on how to be useful at put-in before put-in. Talk to the TD to coordinate this.
4-5. There should be two consecutive classes on one design aspect
6-7. There should be two consecutive classes on one acting aspect
8. There should be one class on a random acting topic
As coordinator, you are responsible for finding good teachers for each class and emailing ensemble encouraging them to come. Also make sure to take attendance so it is known who fulfills the membership requirement. Class should not occur during production weeks, as members are hosed. The coordinator should make sure that classes do not run into rehearsals. The director can request/teach specific classes as long as they are useful to the membership at large. The director should not attend unless s/he teaching.
Ideas
Theater Games, Scansion, Fight Choreography