This is a quick and easy Acting exercise you can do at home. The challenge is in changing the emotion and really committing to the delivery and performance of each emotion.

Here’s how to play: Memorize a short poem or Nursery Rhyme. Once you have it memorized, choose at least three different emotions. Perform the poem or nursery rhyme with those three emotions, really jumping fully into the emotion. Here are a few basic emotions to get you started:

After you performances, discuss with your family which emotions worked well with the poem or nursery rhyme, and which emotions didn’t. Were some combinations funny? Or authentic? Which emotions felt the most natural to you?

Send us a video of your favorite emotional performance to stagelightathome@gmail.com or tag us on social media @stagelightarts. As always, have fun playing!

Stagelight Families,

Wow, do we miss you. And like you, we can’t wait to get back to normal and see all your smiling faces at the studio.

Thank you for your patience while we figure out this new, but temporary normal. We are furiously working to put together our virtual classes, and we’ll be emailing you that schedule later this week. We promise to give you the best Stagelight programming we can over this virtual frontier, so that there still IS a Stagelight to return to when we can finally open those studio doors again.

Thank you again for your patience, and we’ll be in touch soon! 

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Now that some of our Southern California rain has passed, let’s get moving outside! Just remember to keep social distancing. Before you begin this Outside Dance-Walk, we suggest watching Pharrell Williams’ Happy music video for inspiration!

Printout the directions here and have mom or dad hold the directions as you head out, ready to create an Outside Dance-Walk. When you pass each item on the directions, perform the movement suggested. Now, can you go back and memorize the dance? Maybe Mom or Dad can carry a small speaker and provide your soundtrack!

Send us a video of your dance to stagelightathome@gmail.com or tag us on social media @stagelightarts. Have fun!

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