Bring some your favorite characters to life in today’s Home Activity! Choose a favorite storybook, but make sure it’s one that includes lots of action or characters with different emotions. Fun options include: The Day the Crayons Quit, Wemberly Worried, The Very Impatient Caterpillar, any Elephant and Piggie books, or fairytale stories.

Read the story together, and point out all the ways the characters are feeling or acting.

Now, assign roles. Involve siblings and parents, and really get into character. For an even greater challenge, add props, costume pieces, entrances and exits. Don’t forget to pay attention to where the “audience” is so they can see all your action and hear all your lines. We would love to see lots of action, emotion and “playing” to your audience.

Send us a picture or video of your Storytelling scene at stagelightathome@gmail.com or tag us on social media @stagelightarts. Have fun with this!

Today’s activity is more challenging than it appears, IF you really work creatively. Shape each letter in your name as creatively as possible and with your whole body. Practice moving from letter to letter smoothly until you have your “dance” memorized.

Play with the transition from letter to letter to make your dance as interesting and creative as possible. For example, will you move sharply from one letter to another, or smoothly? Will you move fast or slow to each letter? For an added challenge, use different transitions between each letter, sometimes turning, jumping, or rolling.

Choose a song that you want to perform your dance to and practice it ten times. Make sure you hold that end pose! Then, have someone film your dance and send it to us at stagelightathome@gmail.com or post it on social media and tag us @stagelightarts.

Once you get the hang of this activity, try spelling out other words or maybe work with a sibling to create letters! Other words you might try are lucky, love, dance, or perform!

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It’s amazing how in times of crisis the performing arts community comes together. But really, is that surprising?! What a great thing it is to be an artist and share in these experiences together!

With the COVID-19 pandemic, so many dance companies, studios, and arts organizations are putting together some GREAT online content to keep our young artists moving.

Log in to CLI Studios today a little before 3:00 pm for FREE dance classes from Kathryn McCormick, Phil Wright, Misha Gabriel, and Teddy Forance. Take a picture of video of yourself taking class and send it to us at stagelightathome@gmail.com.

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