Patricia Carreras offers pantomime, puppetry, mask, and story theater for all ages. Classes are typically 45 minutes and are designed for residencies of two sessions or more, although one-time workshops are also available.
Her classes include:
- Pantomime: This residency focuses on mime at the very basic level. She will work with students to help them create and present pantomimes based on simple techniques and enhances storytelling without words. This class opens up the imagination and readies the student for reading and writing.
- Story Theatre with Poetry and Movement: This unique program encourages students to use their bodies, voices and imaginations to bring personal stories and poems to life. Group projects will help students understand the theatrical process of collaboration.
Other residencies include:
- Living Art: The students examine works by notable visual artists and photographers (such as Ernest Withers and Norman Rockwell) and present stories behind the images.)
- Physical Comedy, Improvisation: Students create stories based on everyday themes. Art of Comedy is introduced.
Other classes offered:
- Mask/mime/movement
- Puppetry Arts,
- Standup Shakespeare (Comedy and Dance from Shakespearean Era),
- Ballroom Dance. This class offers 5th through high school students basic waltz and foxtrot. Often, after school family time, or Physical Education classes join with Patricia to ready students for dances.
- Contra Dance: All ages! Includes Virginia Reel. This basic class teaches children 2nd through adult the joys of pioneer celebration while learning movement through listening skills.
- Acting for film/television: This class teaches the use of cue cards, movement in front of a camera, and emotion for close-ups. It is great for all ages.
Educators are requested to participate and/or assist in the learning process with their students during each residency or workshop.
Available to conduct teacher and teaching artist workshops in all of the above–including aesthetic education and introduction to Wolf Trap Early Learning through the Arts.