EDUCATION
ACPN
(Arts Community Partnership Network) Program through LAUSD
Theatre West
five day sequential educational program utilizes California State
Visual And Performing Arts Standards for Grades K -2, followed
by two performances of our award winning Storybook
Theatre. (Teachers and Administrators go to the LAUSD
OMAR page for specifics re performance and residency fees.)
Storybook
Theatre presents interactive, non-threatening, live musicals
with a message, under VAPA standards, performed by professional
actors. According to Joe Garber at Actors Equity Assn, Theatre
West’s Storybook
Theatre is one of only two companies in Los Angeles performing
for children under a union contract, and is one of the highest
impact children’s theaters in the US, serving more than
8,000 students a year.
Called the
“Best in the West for the squirmy set” by Los Angeles
Magazine and “simply the best at what they do” by
the Los Angeles Times, Storybook
Theatre also won the 2007 Parent Survey in LA Parent Magazine
as Best Children’s Theatre in Los Angeles.
As part of
that effort to more fully extend our work into the educational
needs of the children, we worked with credentialed teachers who
are company artist members to create a series of exercises that
we could bring to schools as a five day residency program for
grades K-2 that met the five VAPA standards at each grade level.
What they
said about Theatre West’s ACPN
Residency at Hancock Park ES:
"The
actor/teachers from Theatre West bring a vital and electric
energy into the classroom that seems to ignite the student's
creative juices!"
"Their
style of classroom management shows an intuitive sensitivity
to each student's hidden fears as well as their ability to be
brave."
"As
a participating classroom teacher, I feel more confident to
use new theater techniques in conjunction with my Open Court
stories and units."
"My
students were so engaged and excited during the sessions with
Theatre West that the classroom seemed to become one functioning
organism...the actor/teachers guiding my students to moments
of excitement and to moments of quiet."
~ Cecile
Cabeen, Teacher, and Dr. Judy Perez, Principal
