'Acting lets me release feelings and being online has helped me with my patience...Being in theater has helped me calm down and just keep going.'
offered throughout the Chicago Public School system, storefront theaters have provided a solid home to young creators. But with the global pandemic not allowing for gatherings, their program has had to adjust by leaning on interviews, research, and lived experiences to produce work.
But the downside is that digital theater presents new barriers to what could previously be a spontaneous outdoor experience. According to Dion though, “[they] are reminded that theater can happen in our homes with the materials we have in front of us.” “[To go online] is a very responsible choice,” says Andrew Roggenkamp, 17, a senior acting major. For HAPA, online learning looks like a block schedule of 80-minute classes. “They made the classes long enough so we don't have to get homework.” HAPA’s “no homework policy” builds time into class for students to do work while teachers are present, both for added clarity and moral., “I know sometimes theater arts get looked down upon or they get completely ignored.
“As a practice, we are a collective art form. We get to richer, more complex understanding because of the contributions from all those different people and places and spaces,” Dawson tells. Theater centers the ensemble, a community of learners and practitioners. Now that the space for this collective is no longer physically shared, the question becomes how to incorporate shared body and movement work.
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