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"The Scarlet Letter" on stage at Laguna this Tuesday
Please join the students of AP English Language and Global Literature for Library Dances in Spaulding Auditorium this Tuesday, October 6 at 7pm.
Library Dances is a collaboration between LBS and the State Street Ballet, a professional touring company based in Santa Barbara. Through a combination of movement, theater, and scholarship, Library Dances embeds the characters, stories, themes, and conflicts of canonical works of literature deep in the bodies and minds of high school students. For 2015, the program focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. You will see students and professional dancers together on our stage performing an original ballet choreographed by Cecily Stewart and five dramatic scenes adapted from the novel by Charles Donelan.
The goal of Library Dances is to expand the Big Read model of community involvement with a canonical work of literature to include the creation of an original work of dance theater. In addition to all the traditional apparatus of an English class unit on The Scarlet Letter, such as reading quizzes, essays, research, and criticism, students experience the thrill of transferring knowledge gained through reading to narrative told through movement.
There will be a significant period of reflection following the performance in which students will bring the insights gained through playing roles in the story to their written work.
Last year’s Library Dances performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a big hit. Please come out and show your support for this exciting new program.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
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Library Dances is a collaboration between LBS and the State Street Ballet, a professional touring company based in Santa Barbara. Through a combination of movement, theater, and scholarship, Library Dances embeds the characters, stories, themes, and conflicts of canonical works of literature deep in the bodies and minds of high school students. For 2015, the program focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. You will see students and professional dancers together on our stage performing an original ballet choreographed by Cecily Stewart and five dramatic scenes adapted from the novel by Charles Donelan.
The goal of Library Dances is to expand the Big Read model of community involvement with a canonical work of literature to include the creation of an original work of dance theater. In addition to all the traditional apparatus of an English class unit on The Scarlet Letter, such as reading quizzes, essays, research, and criticism, students experience the thrill of transferring knowledge gained through reading to narrative told through movement.
There will be a significant period of reflection following the performance in which students will bring the insights gained through playing roles in the story to their written work.
Last year’s Library Dances performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a big hit. Please come out and show your support for this exciting new program.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
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