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:
 
 
Past Project Sponsors:
The Webber
Family Foundation
Alice
Kleberg Reynolds Foundation
Dell
Foundation
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