'What would you say to the people who do not think the arts are important in schools'?

Me: Okay! (so I start to leave and then turn around) Just, please don’t die! 

Zeke: (Puts his thumb up from inside his Lion paw glove) You got it!

Guest Blogger: Derek

All I remember is needing a space to explore the emotions that decided to tag along with all the puberty.

Staging a sex scene with teenagers is like playing the worst game of twister ever!

When I started teaching, I was still in college and as previously mentioned, such a goodie-two-shoes. During my very early teaching years, it was pretty much common knowledge that I was embarrassed and consistently uncomfortable with romantic/ sexual/ drunken stage moments. As the choreographer, there were two major moments I was dreading working on.

In my previous blog life, I had a series of posts that were titled One Liners. Sometimes the most ridiculous moments don’t have a long winded backstory.

I officially feel like things are changing so rapidly, I just can’t keep up. l rely on my students, sometimes too heavily, to point out the red flags that I am missing. Whether this is in scenes they are doing, stories we are reading, or in ways of exploring dialogue, improv, devised theater or analyzing a piece of theater, students point out the problems that 2019 has awoken us too.