Workshop: Gina Fields' workshops, based on We Tell Stories principles, will focus on basic storytelling techniques and dramatic skills for performance. Students will learn a story and turn it into a play, The process increases reading comprehension, encourages literacy and inspires a joy for reading by helping students to understand story structure in a hands on, practical and fun way. Sequential workshops can incorporate one or more of the following elements: play production, improvisation, verbal and movement games, creative writing, concentration, imagination and problem-solving. All workshops impart an understanding of the concepts of group support and trust, as well as an eagerness to accept new ideas.

Gina Marie Fields is a 2007 and 2008 Music Center Artist Fellow. She is an actor and a storyteller and has performed on stage and worked with children and teachers off stage for 18 years with such notable theater groups as the We Tell Stories, The Imagination Co., Great Leap, San Jose Repertory's Red Ladder Theater Group, New Conservatory Theater and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, among others. She has taught storytelling, improvisational work, Shakespearean text, Education-in-AIDS and basic theater skills. She received her B.A. in psychology, with an emphasis on children's studies and dramatic arts from U.C. Berkeley.

Price:
$100 per 60-minute workshop, plus possible planning fee. Minimum three workshops per day must be scheduled.

Age Group:K-12
Capacity:1 Classroom (maximum of 35 students, plus regular teacher)
Availability:Year Round

To design an arts education program with this artist, please call (213) 250-ARTS or email schoolprograms@musiccenter.org.

Prices are for services between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.