October 2010 Weddings
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alecat
Hey! I need your expertise. I am teaching the different parts of the opera to my 1st graders and to end the project we are going to perform an opera (for 4-7 year olds so it is not terribly advanced!) where they do everything to make their opera a success. Well I am going to be teaching acting and costuming to them. Any ideas that would be appropriate for 1st grade? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Re: alecat
What opera is it? I'm brainstorming now. I've never had to break it down for such little ones before and its hard to get adults to understand sometimes. They are going to be so freakin cute putting on an opera.
It depends on the story of the opera, but I would start by asking them to think about who their character is. Ex:
Are they wealthy or poor?
What is the time period of the opera?
What does your character do? How would that impact how he/she looks or dresses (shy librarian or brave knight, etc)?
Is your character brave, cowardly, heroic, etc?
What season does the opera take place in?
Where and how would that affect the characters (is it winter in Massachusetts or winter in the Sahara desert, etc...)
They might be a little young for this, but I always start my costume process with collecting images that evoke my character for me. These images are both emotional, environmental (aka, images that don't necessarily look like my character or clothing. Such as if you were designing The Tempest I might collect a bunch of artistic pictures of storms and the sea) and character driven. you might be able to break this down into a fun project for them looking through magazines and such and making little character boards.
Just for example, this is a character world board I made for Alice in Wonderland when I was in school:
Can I just say that I love that you are teaching them this. This is going to be such a great little project for them to use both what the script gives them and their imagination and I love it!!!