Exchange
EXCHANGE: Introduction to Acting for Older Adults – Stage & Life Skills
Problems Registering? Contact Acy Jackson
acy.jackson@boulderjcc.org
Details
Wednesdays, January 15 - February 19 | 6 weeks | 1 - 3 pm | $65
Instructor: Anne Sandoe and Margaret Jansen
Can you imagine yourself on stage? Would you like to move, speak, and feel like another person? To play for the pure fun of it? Specifically geared toward older adults, this class will teach you the fundamentals of acting. Classes are a mix of play, gentle movements, vocal exercises, and deep insights into the actor’s craft in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Memorization is not required.
VIVA’s world-class teachers prepare you for the stage and show how acting tools are useful in your personal life. Loosen up with theater games, practice movements that can free your expressive self, find your own distinctive voice, and learn to develop characters. Increase your confidence and connect with like-minded others.
This is a special opportunity for older adults (even those with disabilities) to participate in the arts. Whether you have experience in theatre or not, we can accommodate you! This class serves as a teaser for VIVA’s more comprehensive Theater Lab, scheduled in the spring of 2025, which will culminate in actual performances. If you have a passion for the arts but have shied away from trying it, come play with others like you.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Anne Sandoe is an actor, director, and teacher who has been in the theater since age six. She has taught acting and voice for more than thirty years, including at UNC, San Francisco State University, and Wright State University in Ohio. Sandoe has performed with the Colorado, Oregon, Alabama, Virginia, and Antioch Shakespeare Festivals, and locally at BETC, the Catamounts, Longmont Theater Company, the Arvada Center, Coal Creek Theatre. Carolyn Arras, a former principal ballerina with the Royal Opera Ballet of London and a skilled teacher of movement for Parkinson’s patients. Margaret Jansen, whose lineage of “the natural voice’ comes directly from the amazing Kristen Linklater, the foremost voice teacher of the last century.