ROOTS & WINGS: A Dramatic Arts Experience
For guys and girls ages 12 through high school.

Roots & Wings, a co-facilitated program created and developed by Charlotte Koons and Ghislaine Grillo over several seasons, will firmly "root" the student in basic acting techniques, improvisation, monologues, and scripted scenes. Each student will also find their "wings" through the fluidity and flexibility of creative movement that adds depth to complex characterizations, and allows the whole body to express a role fully.

Drama and Theatre Games for ages 9 through 11.

Using theatre games, creative movement, storytelling and improvisational dialogues, students will gain an appreciation and intimate experience of the artistic choices and creative processes young actors use in the real theatre. While having a great deal of fun, students will practice abstract thinking, critical judgment and problem solving in a safe, playful and exciting environment.

Drama and Theatre Games classes are taught by Dafna Soltes Stein who has a BA from Bard College Dept. of Drama and Dance. She holds a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and a NYS teacher certification in Dance Education. In addition to teaching at Posey School, she is a Teaching Artist for the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts School Partnership Program and with grants from the Huntington Arts Council and the East End Arts Council is busy producing dance programs for the community.

Dafna has been a Performance and Teaching Artist in Drama and Dance since 1971. She wrote, directed and performed in her one-woman show, Blessed is the Heart, a biographical play about WW II heroine Hannah Senesh that toured throughout the U.S. and Canada for 3 years. The success of this theater project continued with travel to the Soviet Union doing research and interviews with Jewish dissidents, followed by drama workshops for middle and high school students and adult learners based on the content of her two plays.

She wrote and starred in Irina Off-Broadway and throughout the U.S., Canada and Israel. She played the role of dancer Loie Fuller in Off-Broadway production Lautrec, Tzeitle in Fiddler on the Roof and recently Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man.

Jeremy Black has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Harvard University. He began acting professionally at age fourteen, appearing in "The Boys from Brazil", as the clones of Hitler, a film based on the novel by Ira Levin. His theater background includes training in improvisation, mime, singing, scene study and audition technique. As a dancer he has studied ballet, jazz, theatre dance, tap, and viewpoints.

Jeremy worked in New York City public and parochial schools for several years, teaching drama and soccer. On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he created a program of stories written and spoken by children that aired on WNYE radio. He also taught for Education in Dance, founded by a member of Martha Graham's dance company.

Jeremy now serves as Artistic Director of the Northport Opera Company, blending movement, theater and music to make opera enjoyable and accessible to everyone. He is a member of Actor’s Equity Association.

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