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Arts Blitz 2008/09 - The Monologue Project

The Monologue Project is a multi-arts community project led by Ballet Austin in collaboration with the Pollyanna Theatre Company, Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, and the PHOENIX Center for Art & Soul. 

         

Learn more about The Monologue Project through our interactive multimedia tool.  

The goal of The Monologue Project is to address the issues of on-campus bullying and intolerance by providing an opportunity for secondary school students to share their personal stories with each other.  We believe that the arts can be a powerful resource in facilitating self-knowledge, opening dialogue and affecting shifts in perspective.  By providing a supportive environment which celebrates the unique, The Monologue Project encourages students to honor diversity in themselves and their peers, seek common ground with others and initiate connections.

In the fall of 2006, 139 students and 14 teachers on five Austin-area campuses participated in ten weeks of multi-arts residencies that included making sculpture, writing personal stories and monologues, and translating their writing into movement and dance.  All of this work was then compiled and transformed into an original dance drama for young people, Out of many…One/The Monologue Project.  The production script was adapted from the student writing by young playwright Katherine Gee and choreography was created by Thaddeus Davis of Wideman/Davis Dance. 

The full potential for The Monologue Project will be more completely realized as the collaborators continue their work into the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years. Beginning in the fall of 2007, Out of many…One will be presented on secondary school campuses throughout Central Texas, in conjunction with a series of arts workshops. Additionally, the collaborators will offer professional development workshops and resources to assist secondary school teachers in replicating this project in their own classrooms.

Bring It To Your Campus in November 2008

Out of Many…One/The Monologue Project

A 50-minute dance/drama performance accompanied by a 30-minute post-show conversation

Bring Your Student To Us

Out of Many…One/The Monologue Project

School Shows & Post-Show Conversation

Friday November 7, 2008 – 10:00 to 11:30am

Friday November 7, 2008 – 1:00 to 2:30pm

Professional Development for Educators

Free professional development, resources, and activities based on The Monologue Project Residency and Workshop Curricula. Curriculum kits provided.

 

For More Information

Pei-San.Brown@balletaustin.org

512.476.9151 ext. 178

 

 

“As for the (Out of many…One), I LOVED it. My mom and I had such a good time watching it and talked about it for a long time over dinner. The production definitely made me think of diversity, respect, and all of the racial tension. …This production did also a good job of showing how school really is for teenagers. The boy who hated the world did a really good job acting his part, there are a few of those kinds of kids in some of my classes. They are not only extremely violent, but at any moment you're just waiting for them … to blow up, and you're afraid of what they could do. I thought everyone did a wonderful job.  I wouldn't change anything. But I REALLY hope you all do a performance at my high school next year!!!” - Liz B., Student

 

“The Monologue Project performance made an impact on me and on my teen daughter that will linger for some time. The fact that the words were those of her peers made it all the more powerful to my daughter. I would like to ask that this work be brought to as many high schools as possible. I cannot imagine that attending this performance would not have a positive effect on the interrelationships of the students; indeed on the faculty as well. I cannot think of anything they are learning in school that is more important than the lesson taught in The Monologue Project. Thank you.” Jo H., Parent

 

Sponsored by:

  

  Andrews & Kurth Karavel Shoes 

 

Past Project Sponsors:

The Webber Family Foundation

Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation

Dell Foundation

 
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