National Shakespeare Youth Festival – Film
May 17, 2012 at 9:00 am | Posted in Film, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentThe film category is demanding as it requires acting and filmmaking skills, not to mention some sense of set and costuming!
Congratulations to Monarch Park Collegiate’s Alli Iannanen, Nataliya Pekar, and Mason Soares who created this film for Macbeth (4.1) – winner at this year’s Festival! Peter Smith, adjudicator, praised them for filming outdoors (quite the challenge), for clear sound, and for lovely costumes. This scene was originally filmed in the winter, with snow everywhere. The team re-shot it entirely, applying the feedback from earlier stages. Well done!
National Shakespeare Youth Festival – Acting
May 16, 2012 at 9:00 am | Posted in Acting, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentCongratulations to all Festival participants entered in the Acting category – we were all so impressed by the quality of your performances!
The Country Day School performs “Hamlet” (4.5) – winners in the 2012 Festival Acting division. Peter Smith, adjudicator, commended the performance for being cohesive, having rising action, and being well-acted. L-R: Alex Gruspier, Lukas Weese, Kelsey Houston, and Ilana Khani. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
The Country Day School performs “Hamlet” (4.5). L-R: Alex Gruspier, Lukas Weese, Kelsey Houston, Ilana Khani, and Jai Singh. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
The Country Day School performs “Hamlet” (4.5). L-R: Alex Gruspier, Jai Singh, Lukas Weese, Ilana Khani, and Kelsey Houston. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Erin District High School performs “Macbeth” (1.3). Peter Smith, adjudicator, commended these three witches for their eerie performance and shrill – yet startlingly clear – voices. L-R: Katrina Kastelic, Keary Rodgers, and Jordyn Bell. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Erin District High School performs “Macbeth” (1.3). L-R: Claire Leblanc, Kieran Klassen, Andres Caravantes, and Keiran Papp. Keiran Papp earned a Shakespeare Young Company for Teens scholarship for his stellar Macbeth. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Monarch Park Collegiate performs “Much Ado About Nothing” (2.3). L-R: Naomi Brown, Alex Kilian, and Mythili Nair. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Monarch Park Collegiate performs “Much Ado About Nothing” (2.3). Elena Wood earned a Shakespeare Young Company for Teens scholarship for her charming and nuanced Benedick. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
National Shakespeare Youth Festival – Workshops
May 15, 2012 at 9:00 am | Posted in National Shakespeare Youth Festival | 1 CommentIt’s much ado about something!
On Saturday, May 12th, high school Shakespeare enthusiasts celebrated the Bard through acting, dance, design, and film!
2012 Festival Participants with Peter Smith, Amanda Gougeon, and Artistic Director, Michael Kelly. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Design Workshop – Amanda Gougeon shares some of her Double Tragedy costume drawings with Festival Participants. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Design Workshop – In the foreground, Juliet’s dress hangs as inspiration. Amanda Gougeon circulates, as Festival participants work in teams to design set, costumes, and lighting for the Capulet ball. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Acting Workshop – Inspired by Hal and Falstaff, Peter Smith and Festival participant hurl Elizabethan insults at each other. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
Acting Workshop – Artistic Director, Michael Kelly, guides Festival participants through a powerful “To be, or not to be” choral. Photo: Shakespeare in Action
National Shakespeare Youth Festival Update – Film
June 16, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in Film, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentWe now present the winning trailer and film from this year’s Festival – congratulations to E.L. Crossley’s Jon Broughton, Emily Frost, Emily Kertcher, and Emma Mann for their hard work and achievement!
National Shakespeare Youth Festival Update – Workshops
May 24, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentOn the day of the Festival, students from Bishop Allen Academy, E.L. Crossley Secondary School, and Elmira District Secondary School participated in some workshops with four professional actors and arts educators. For sample videos and downloadable activities, check out our Virtual Lab!
Artistic Director Michael Kelly leads a "Language Across the Circle" exercise in a workshop with Festival students.
Laurel Paetz teaches students the fine art of hurling Shakespearean insults at each other.
Pete Smith laughs out loud, preparing the students for a choral reading from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Xuan Fraser - who plays Bottom in our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream - tells students about his experience in the role.
National Shakespeare Youth Festival – Design
May 19, 2011 at 12:00 am | Posted in Design, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a comment
From E.L. Crossley Secondary School, Kaitlyn Daw, Katie Galvin, and Christina Picton's work for Hamlet - winners for their costume designs!
From E.L. Crossley Secondary School, Kelly Nori and Axel Kinnear's work for Hamlet - winners for their set design!
National Shakespeare Youth Festival Update – Acting
May 17, 2011 at 11:03 am | Posted in Acting, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentOn Saturday, May 14th, Shakespeare in Action held its annual Youth Festival finals…
…and the results are in!
Left to right: Elmira District Secondary School's Emeka Agada and Sam Lanesmith perform in Taming of the Shrew (2.1) - winners in the Acting division at this year's Festival!
Elmira District Secondary School's Candace Kuepfer and Sam Lanesmith perform in Taming of the Shrew (2.1) - winners at this year's Festival!
Left to right: E.L. Crossley Secondary School's Laura Gemmel, Nik Duliban, Jessica Elliott, and Abbey Carr peform in Twelfth Night (2.3) - highly commendable performance in this year's Festival!
Left to right: E.L. Crossley Secondary School's Jessical Elliott, Laura Gemmel, Katie Sawchuk, Nik Duliban, and Abbey Carr perform in Twelfth Night (2.3) - highly commendable performance at this year's Festival!
Stay tuned for updates from the Design and Film categories!
What’s all this Festival Buzz?
April 28, 2011 at 11:08 am | Posted in National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentPerhaps you’ve noticed that lately we’ve been posting a lot of updates about our National Shakespeare Youth Festival. The Festival is our annual multi-disciplinary arts festival that we hold in schools across the country. Simply put, schools sign up and then begin working on creative responses to Shakespeare through various categories like acting, dance, film and design.
The 2011 Festival is well under way with the students working frantically to get all their ideas together and ready to present. Some students have been kind enough to find the time to write up process updates on their work and their experience. We’ve been posting them to liven up the blog and to give other participants something inspiring to read! Check back next week for more Festival updates!
National Shakespeare Youth Festival Update – E.L. Crossley
April 26, 2011 at 9:54 am | Posted in Acting, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a commentBy: Allyssa Davies (acting in a Hamlet duologue with Victoria)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Victoria and I have decided to do the duologue for the Shakespeare festival. We have been a little behind track, for Victoria and I have been away from school on the days we got to work on Shakespeare. We decided to do the duologue because we only had two people in our group.
We had a hard time deciding on what scene we were going to act. We thought about doing the Queen and Ophelia having a conversation after Ophelia’s father had been killed. We thought that it would be nice to show how these two characters interact after the Queen says what happened and Ophelia begins to go crazy. Unfortunately. we were unable to find enough sentences to act out between the Queen and Ophelia.
So we decided to use the end scene of Hamlet. This is where Hamlet and Laertes fight. We went through and discovered many things between the lines that we wanted to portray as we act it out. Victoria and I worked through the script adding and taking out lines and making sure it was all Shakespeare’s language.
We have also started choreographing the steps for the fight scene. We are really slow right now but, with practise, I’m sure we will get better.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Victoria and I have been working on the fight scene and trying to choreograph the steps. We have come down to counting it out and we have been able to speed up the process of fighting. It is not in slow motion anymore. We have also looked on-line for help on how to choreograph a sword fight.
We have managed to finish the script and are fixing up certain spots. We may need to add in more lines if we need to have more time because we have up to 7 minutes. I believe that our script and sword fight will bring a better understanding that many people do not see when reading it. We tried to dig deep between the lines, and we have brought up new thoughts and ideas and I hope that the judges see that and are able to tell what we have done.
Victoria and I have also discussed costumes. We think we will have a black shirt verses a white shirt (one colour symbolizing each character), jeans, and have home made swords (made out of present wrapping paper rolls). We also want one sword to be darker than the other to symbolize that it is tainted with poison.
National Shakespeare Youth Festival Update – Elmira
April 22, 2011 at 4:22 pm | Posted in Acting, National Shakespeare Youth Festival | Leave a comment
Left to Right: Tanisha Longley, Hayden Cooke, Ashley Bauman, Brett Schinkman, Nathan Jagger, Kristen Kaster, Tyler Hackbart, and Sarah Charron in a group scene from "The Taming of the Shrew"
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