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Educational Events
The Bartlett Performing Arts Center at Moline High School just opened in March 2019, and we're already filling it with educational events every day.
Classes
Every day, the Bartlett Performing Arts Center hosts classes in Band, Orchestra, Choir, Music Theory, Acting, Stagecraft, and Speech. Students learn valuable skills to help them in a career in the performing arts, speaking and listening skills to help them in any career, as well as a confidence that helps them through all areas of life. Thanks to the size of the Multipurpose Room, Speech classes are able to incorporate more hands-on activities, especially for demonstration speeches as pictured here. We hope the Acting and Speech classes can continue to take advantage of the benefits of the Bartlett Performing Arts Center.
Community
Drama Club officers plan meetings to help students to grow in their theatre skills as well as in their confidence. In May 2019, the officers put together an ice cream social for their peers, purchasing supplies and serving the Drama Club to help unite them all as a team.
For MEET ME IN ST LOUIS, MHS student designers collaborated with designers from Augustana College to create strong visuals in lighting and scenic designs.
The Acting Class in the spring of 2019 performed an improv show for the Music Theory class. Students joined together in the Multipurpose Room and discussed how theatrical improv connects to musical improv.
Businesses and families in the Quad City area came together for the Musical Fundraiser and the Musical. Students created a World's Fair for the fundraiser, inviting families to play games and eat food that originated in 1904. Businesses like Davenport Trolley helped make the event a success.
Student Directors
Thanks to the Barlett Performing Arts Center, the Drama Club students were able to work together to plan, rehearse, design, and perform a production of student-directed plays. Eight seniors led over fifty students to reach excellence, performing for a live audience. Thanks to our large scene shop, the students were able to join together before the show to warm up.
Technology Training
During Stagecraft Class and during the preparation for each production, students participate in workshops to help them grow in their technology skills. The anticipation of the upcoming show helps students to work diligently, learning quickly and teaching others in areas of lighting, sound, construction, rigging, projections, and costumes. Students not only learn how to manipulate the technology safely, but they also learn why - analyzing scripts and music to make creative design choices.
Rehearsals
Students learn the value of rehearsal and practice. They know that they need the time to collaborate with their peers and perfect the scene or the music before performing in front of an audience. They analyze the words, the music, and the movements so that they all fit together in a cohesive unit. They communicate their schedules, juggle many responsibilities, and take their work seriously. Being surrounded by a beautiful building boosts their confidence and their professionalism.
Cross Curricular
For the Open House in May, three different classes collaborated to analyze, rehearse, and present ideas about identity. The Creative Writing classes collaborated to write poems, stories, and plays about identity. The AP Art class and worked together to choose art that connected. The Acting Class set everything up and performed the pieces for an audience.
Students are constantly connecting curriculums. Family and Consumer Science Classes help students to budget for the supplies needed in a show or to help care for children involved in productions. Art classes help students with color theory, painting skills, and poster designs.
Each history class helps students design for plays set in a certain time period. The photo of Colleen Callahan shows the first rehearsal of the musical in 2019. Every year, Colleen begins musical rehearsals with a presentation about the time period. Students then add to the research so the design matches and the actors move and speak as if they lived in that time period.