Posted February 26, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Africa – Play This week is all about play—playing with music, that is! Inspired by the musical stylings and operatic adaptations of Isango Ensemble, let’s have some fun learning how to warm up our voices, start an opera club and retell our favorite stories through song.
Posted February 19, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Africa – Create In last week’s Arts Break, we met some members of South Africa’s Isango Ensemble and explored their community. This week, let’s look closer at Isango Ensemble’s work as music-makers and performers. Then, we’ll make some music of our own!
Posted February 12, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Africa – Discover It is time to head to Africa! This season, we’re visiting artists from all around the world to get to know their art forms and their homes! As we explore the continent of Africa, you might remember a few theater troupes from their performances at New Victory. Let’s learn about some awesome companies and then learn a bit about Africa and its rich cultures.
Posted February 5, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Asia – Connect To close out our Asia journey, we will work on creating character through costumes, makeup and personality to get performance ready. What do you get when you put a fun persona, magical tricks, comedic timing and a glam look all together? Voila! A successful magic show!
Posted January 29, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Asia – Play Welcome to Play Week of our Asia adventure! We are going to have some fun honing our performance and magic skills, making sure to add in just a teeny bit of silliness. As we continue to practice our magic tricks and magician personas, we are on our way to being bonafide magicians!
Posted January 22, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Asia – Create Welcome to Create Week as we continue on our trip through Asia. This week, let’s look closer at GRUEJARM’s work as performers and their art form of magic, as well as dip our toes into a bit of magic ourselves.
Posted January 15, 2021 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Asia – Discover Fasten your seat belts, friends! For the next couple of weeks we are headed to Asia. This season, we’re visiting artists from all around the world to get to know their craft and their home. As we explore Asia, you might recall a few companies from their time at New Victory.
Posted December 20, 2020 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Europe – Connect In this week’s “Connect” New Victory Arts Break, we want to make a special art piece to dedicate to someone we love and give them the gift of performance.
Posted December 20, 2020 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Europe – Play Time to take your theater skills to the next level with a pop of personalization: puppetry and parading!
Posted December 13, 2020 Family Engagement New Victory Arts Break: Europe – Create Let’s look closer at Oily Cart’s work and their ongoing mission to make theater more inclusive with their fun new show, Doorstep Jamboree. We will see their work and create a personalized jamboree look inspired by our favorite textures, smells and feelings!