#school of theatre and dance

[worldstoforge]

Shout out to Terpsichore Skullcleaver, bard teacher and dance instructor at Aguefort Academy for taking a full shit to the chest from one of her students and doing THE MOST THEATRE TEACHER thing I’ve witnessed since grad school.

She made sure no one laughed, not just because it was “natural” but because I genuinely believe she knows two things as a teacher:

1. True Art can not be created within a sphere of judgement and setting a precedent of judgement in your class is just asking for trouble.

2. Fabian obviously didn’t do that on purpose and if a 18 year old student shits themselves during your class. That’s cause for major concern.

Here is to you Terpsichore Skullcleaver. You’re one of the real ones!

[k12academics]

The School of Theatre and Dance is committed to actively advancing an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion and to the unceasing work of anti-racism in all that we do.

[dalyankiz1981]

The ONLY photo of me you’ll ever see on Tumblr! Show ready - stage make-up and all! Wish me luck peeps 🪩💃

(Also got my essential bag of Haribo Tangfastics for backstage energy boost 😉)

[paula-in-dreamland]

Am I crazy or is acting seen and valued as a career in the UK so much more than the US?! Like, the amount of actors who not only started young in plays/theater companies then went onto specialized drama schools is astronomical? I feel like in the US, there are not a lot of theatre companies aside from major cities (and even then, its hard to get your foot in the door for these productions or you need $$$$). Other than that, you’re taking advantage of your school’s theater programs and hope they are good/well-funded. For example, my brother’s school also had acting as an elective, which he took as it was an easy A as a naturally talented actor. But, my school did not. Just had theatre tech. And yes, we had a strong theater program but I also was way too anxious to audition except for the Middle School musical twice and DramaFest my junior year. Also please note - both of these schools were prestigious private schools. ALL OF THIS TO SAY - Am I crazy? Do we devalue the arts more than the UK?

[eugeniedanglars]

by far my favorite recurring bit in mischief movie night in is oscar/jonathan fighting for his fucking life trying to get the cast to remember that there are children watching whenever the improv turns down a sexual dark alley

[stimming-puppet]

anzu takizawa stimboard for anon, it was kinda hard to make given there's little known information about any of the musical girls but i had fun :) x/x/x|x/x|x/x/x

[i-ideate]

had a dream that my school was doing a production of school of rock (again) and for whatever reason our final concert bit at the battle of the bands was actually just us doing lah-dee-dah from the great gatsby musical, but during the tap part our tap dancers were missing. I seemed to be the only person who noticed, and went and did it. Then I turned around and ANDREW RANNELS was there playing Dewey Finn and he was really disappointed in me because I didn't let the tap dancers do their job which was stressful because they WEREN'T. THERE. 

Also this all happened while we were dressed like the final number of 'a chorus line' in all the jazzy snazzy suits and whatever on a set akin to the one that guy in Coco got crushed by a bell on :)

[moonthemagical]

I am running on four hours of sleep and three holiday gingerbread cookies but I will mix the hell out of this evening dance show!

In other news, I learned that my school's principal does NOT know how to hold a microphone...

[bright-and-burning]

when jo (?) said it seems like i am friends w everybody i laughed at that but actually now that i am thinking abt it. that is just . my entire life dfaldsjflajd. inescapable extroversion. by which i mean. no one around me escapes my extroversion. i will make friends w u and that is a THREAT

[eastberlin]

At rehearsal last night we majorly reworked a couple dance numbers and now I need to find some poses with rhythmic movement to do during one bit and I'm up on the balcony which has a railing so I have made the executive decision to steal from Hey Big Spender.

[pealeii]

i feel like if you don’t recognize the queer narrative in the high school musical movies, that severely limits your appreciation of them

[dingus0401]

guys omg the weirdest thing. so every year I do two musicals, one with my dance company and one at school. last year, dance did matilda, and school did newsies. but now, dance is doing newsies, and school is doing matilda💀idk how to feel abt this😭like I’ll be extra prepared cuz I already know the lines and songs, but like I don’t really want to do it again. yet, the theatre is my calling so I shall do it anyway💀

[septembermonologues]

when i gave my pronouns for my graduation spotlight i did not think about how it would be a hard launch for my family on facebook

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Me, just trying to get through dance and doing my across-the-floors:

Some random-ass white woman staring at us through the window in the hallway: 🙎‍♀️

[tacobellabeanburrito]

Ok well now I’m kinda in a show choir mood so time for show choir lore!!

My high school’s rival high school did “The Cellblock Tango” as one of its songs for its show. Instead of the husband’s names they put the name of teachers from their school.

There is a 9/11 show choir show. You can find it on YouTube.

People take Show Choir incredibly seriously. My rival high school’s price to participate (stuff like costumes and shoes and props and sets) comes around to 1000 dollars. Yes. 1000.

The drama in Show Choir is unbelievable. Imagine theatre drama but 100 times worse.

Most of these kids are incredibly pretentious and also discriminatory against most ethnicities (It doesn’t fit their image) and also weights and heights. It’s like being a rockette in some choirs.

Competitions are all day. From at least 7 or 6 to 12 at night if you make finals. Earlier and later if you are part of the host school.

People’s sets, props and costumes can get insane. One year, my sophomore year, a show choir had a full rotating huge prop tree. It was crazy.

My sophomore year, my rival high school’s show choir had a show that included stilts. And glow in the dark suits.

Glee isn’t really Show Choir.

There are private Show Choirs not affiliated with high schools. They’re like a club. They compete with the other high schools.

Oh some Show Choirs also have TVs so that you can see things on them. There was this giant book that my rival high school had as a prop that had words and text and images on the screen.

Show Choir is all about image (it’s why I said that most choirs don’t let people of color in, it doesn’t fit their image because everyone, for the most part, has to look the same) so if you have short hair, you need to get extensions. You also cannot have dyed hair in most choirs, it has to be at least a natural color. People also have to buy the same makeup and same everything.

[this-doesnt-endd]

Okay google how to be in a play when community theatre here is for people either 12 or 45, havent done anything like that since middle school, im embarassed about everything i do, and very much employed