Online Act Creation Series

  • The Making of a Star What components go into a performance? What components go into a performance? Act Concept Developing the concept, character, or theme of the act Developing the concept, character, or theme of the act Music Song selection, mapping, and more Song selection, mapping, and more Costume and Props Creating and designing props and costumes Creating and designing props and costumes
  • The Making of a Star What components go into a performance? What components go into a performance?

The Making of a Star

What components go into a performance?

  • Act Concept Developing the concept, character, or theme of the act Developing the concept, character, or theme of the act

Act Concept

Developing the concept, character, or theme of the act

  • Music Song selection, mapping, and more Song selection, mapping, and more

Music

Song selection, mapping, and more

  • Costume and Props Creating and designing props and costumes Creating and designing props and costumes

Costume and Props

Creating and designing props and costumes

  • Movement Inventory Before you begin, take stock of what you know. Before you begin, take stock of what you know. Movement Research or…”what everyone thinks of when we say act creation.” or…”what everyone thinks of when we say act creation.” Creating Choreography
  • Movement Inventory Before you begin, take stock of what you know. Before you begin, take stock of what you know.

Movement Inventory

Before you begin, take stock of what you know.

  • Movement Research or…”what everyone thinks of when we say act creation.” or…”what everyone thinks of when we say act creation.”

Movement Research

or…”what everyone thinks of when we say act creation.”

  • Creating Choreography

Creating Choreography

  • Refinement and Clarity Clean up on aisle 5! Learn tools to refine and “clean” aspects of your act. Clean up on aisle 5! Learn tools to refine and “clean” aspects of your act. Presence and Expression Develop your emotional expression, from your face to your fingertips! Develop your emotional expression, from your face to your fingertips! Asking for Feedback Phone a friend. Learn how to ask for and receive constructive feedback. And when to ignore it. Phone a friend. Learn how to ask for and receive constructive feedback. And when to ignore it.
  • Refinement and Clarity Clean up on aisle 5! Learn tools to refine and “clean” aspects of your act. Clean up on aisle 5! Learn tools to refine and “clean” aspects of your act.

Refinement and Clarity

Clean up on aisle 5! Learn tools to refine and “clean” aspects of your act.

  • Presence and Expression Develop your emotional expression, from your face to your fingertips! Develop your emotional expression, from your face to your fingertips!

Presence and Expression

Develop your emotional expression, from your face to your fingertips!

  • Asking for Feedback Phone a friend. Learn how to ask for and receive constructive feedback. And when to ignore it. Phone a friend. Learn how to ask for and receive constructive feedback. And when to ignore it.

Asking for Feedback

Phone a friend. Learn how to ask for and receive constructive feedback. And when to ignore it.

  • Administrative Considerations Prepare for the administrative end of things with technical requirements. Prepare for the administrative end of things with technical requirements. Backstage Etiquette How to handle yourself off-stage How to handle yourself off-stage Performance Day Prepare for the day of the performance with a packing list. Prepare for the day of the performance with a packing list.
  • Administrative Considerations Prepare for the administrative end of things with technical requirements. Prepare for the administrative end of things with technical requirements.

Administrative Considerations

Prepare for the administrative end of things with technical requirements.

  • Backstage Etiquette How to handle yourself off-stage How to handle yourself off-stage

Backstage Etiquette

How to handle yourself off-stage

  • Performance Day Prepare for the day of the performance with a packing list. Prepare for the day of the performance with a packing list.

Performance Day

Prepare for the day of the performance with a packing list.