After a full year of growth and development, Wandering Aesthetics is proud to announce their fall class schedule for 2016. Wandering Aesthetics’ Director of Education Kyle Jozsa will lead four highly-interactive classes designed for children ages 2.5 – 5, 5 – 9 and 9 – 13, beginning on Sept. 17. Wandering Aesthetics uses a play-based approach to teach, guiding students to learn through imagination, physical and vocal exploration and experimentation.
Parents and students continue to rave about working with Jozsa:
“If you live in the Akron area and have a kid who is interested in creative pursuits, I highly recommend you check it out… Iliana has done two of Kyle’s classes so far and it has done a lot for her self confidence, creativity, and general awesomeness.” – Andy Hopp, Illustrator
“Kyle is amazing with the kids.” – Tracey Thomas Shepard, Owner of Akron Center for Art Music & Performance (ACAMP)
Private lessons are also available to help students of ALL AGES prepare for auditions, roles or simply to delve deeper into the craft of acting.
For more information, interested parties may contact Director of Education Kyle Jozsa via phone at 330.612.3090, email [email protected] or by visiting watheatre.com/youth.
Payments for classes can be made online or made out to Wandering Aesthetics and sent to:
377 W. Exchange St. • Akron, OH 44302
(Please include a telephone number with payment)
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Let’s Play! Legos
Ages: 2.5 – 5 Years
Wednesdays @ 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (9/21 – 10/19)
Entire Session (5 Classes): $40
Drop-in: $10
BUILDING up our imagination!
Let’s Play! is back with a brand new, ever-popular theme: LEGOS! Join teaching artist Kyle Jozsa as he guides students on weekly Lego-based theatrical adventures.
Using theatrical concepts (such as: movement, voice, imagination, costumes, props) students will CONSTRUCT their own inventive world. Using imaginative play, crafts and songs– the FOUNDATION of learning– Let’s Play! Legos facilitates physical, social & emotional development in your young performer.
This is NOT a performance-based class.
This class will be held at:
Akron Children’s Museum
Next to Lock 3 Park at 200 South Main St. • Akron, OH 44308
Photo: Svetla Morrison
PLAY: Characters
Ages: 5 – 9 Years
Tuesdays @ 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (9/20 – 10/18)
Entire Session (5 Classes): $50
Drop-in: $12
Building CHARACTER one scene at a time.
Join Wandering Aesthetics teaching artist Kyle Jozsa as he shows students how to create characters using the actor’s basic tools: the voice, the body and the imagination. Through engaging warm-ups and theatre games, students will develop characters across the spectrum (from animals to aliens) and use them in improvisational play.
Classes will build upon each other; however, you may sign your child up for only one, two or even a few of the classes.
This is NOT a performance-based class.
This class will be held at:
Akron Children’s Museum
Next to Lock 3 Park at 200 South Main St. • Akron, OH 44308
Theatre Around The World
Ages: 6 – 9 Years
Saturdays @ 10:00 – 11:00 AM (9/17 – 11/19)
Entire Session: $175 (Sale: $160)
THEATER – Greek for “The Seeing Place.”
As audience members, we go “to see” many performances right here in our backyards. But theatre isn’t just created in the United States, it travels well beyond…
Theatre Around The World seeks to explore different types of theatre from all across the globe. From Japan to Nigeria and beyond, students will get a small taste of the diversity of this art form.
Using theatrical exercises, games, crafts and music from other cultures, Theatre Around The World will investigate how the craft has grown and developed in different regions across the world.
The class will culminate in a final presentation based on the students’ exploration of theatre around the world.
*There will be a final presentation on Saturday, November 19th*
This class will be held at:
Akron Center For Art Music & Performance
118 W. Market St. • Akron, OH 44303
unMASKed
Ages: 9 – 13 Years
Saturdays @ 11:30 – 12:30 AM (9/17 – 11/19)
Entire Session: $175 (Sale: $160)
“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
Masks have played a central role in ceremonies and rituals throughout time. Even today, masks have incredible importance to our culture. Masks can act as a powerful instrument for both the actor and the audience, providing the performer a sense of freedom and expression otherwise not felt.
unMASKed will explore this potential as students will be asked to work with neutral masks, discovering their own confidence and creativity. Students will learn to work physically, using their bodies to help facilitate the storytelling process.
The class will culminate in a final presentation the students will develop based on their work with the masks.
*There will be a final presentation on Saturday, November 19th*
This class will be held at:
Akron Center For Art Music & Performance
118 W. Market St. • Akron, OH 44303
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Photo: Svetla Morrison
Recently named the 2016 Akron Arts Alive! Award Winner for Outstanding Artist in Theater, Kyle Jozsa is the primary Storyteller and Director of Education with Wandering Aesthetics. He began his teaching career in 2010 with Weathervane Playhouse. Since that time, Jozsa has worked full-time as a preschool teacher, developed curriculum for traditional and non-traditional classes alike, and led workshops for students of all age groups throughout Northeast Ohio – working with organizations such as City Sprouts, Cleveland School of the Arts – Lower Campus, Countryside Conservancy, Crown Point, Firestone High School, The Goddard School, TACA, TransOhio and many more. He currently works as a Teaching Artist for HBTI, The Artful Living Program out of Stark County and as a part-time Instructor at Gymboree in Strongsville. Along with other local artists, Jozsa is working to bring a play-based enrichment program to the Akron area, while simultaneously building the Wandering Aesthetics Department of Education from the ground up.
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