Myrna in the Schools 2008-2009
School Performances at Helena Middle School
Contact Pete Ruzevich at the Myrna Loy Center 443-0287 to make arrangements to attend these special school shows that are open to schools and home-schoolers. Ticket for a student, teacher, or parent is $5.00. Study Guides are available for some performances
Pushcart Players - Stone Soup and Other Stories
March 27
7:30 pm
Presenting some of the great children’s stories of all time in performance. The Pushcart Players will end their week in Helena with a special performance of their best stories.
If You Give a Pig a Pancake & Other Stories
May 21
1:00 pm
A bossy little pig’s demands frazzle a young girl in this hilarious lesson about cause and effect. Theatre Works brings Laura Numeroff’s laugh-out-loud book to the stage.
Arts Residency Opportunities
Teachers who are interested in bringing artists into their classrooms Community members looking for arts residency opportunities Check out the following opportunities and give Pete Ruzevich at the Myrna Loy Center a call for details at 443-0287
VICTORIA MARKS DANCE COMPANY
September 22-26
Victoria Marks, Professor of Dance at UCLA, Guggenheim Fellow, Herb Alpert Award in Dance Winner, Noted American choreographer will be in Helena from September 22 to 26. She and company members will be available for master dance classes. She will also be available to talk about how the arts can mirror and interpret society as she does in her dance work Not about Iraq which will be performed on September 26. The LA Times says about her new work, “Witty, fierce, and incredible!”
Suicide Kings
October 14-17
Victoria Marks, Professor of Dance at UCLA, Guggenheim Fellow, Herb Alpert Award in Dance Winner, Noted American choreographer will be in Helena from September 22 to 26. She and company members will be available for master dance classes. She will also be available to talk about how the arts can mirror and interpret society as she does in her dance work Not about Iraq which will be performed on September 26. The LA Times says about her new work, “Witty, fierce, and incredible!”
Ethel
January 14-16
This famous contemporary rock-infused but classical string quartet will be in town.
- They can provide instruction for string artists in Helena area schools.
- For full band/orchestra, they can model ways of learning to perform in a mix of classical and contemporary genres.
- They can provide master classes for Helena area string artists.
- They can also do one school lecture/demonstration performance in the Helena area.
They will do all of this prior to their public performance on January 16. Roll over, Brahms! Their mixture of fun and sincerity seems just right for a group whose moniker is “America’s favorite string band.”
ZOE SCOFIELD AND JUNIPER SHUEY DANCE
February 23-26
Seattle’s hottest young dance company will be in Helena and will be available residency activities.
- They can work with elementary classes on movement activities and exercises.
- They can work with dance classes teaching movement and technique.
- They will be looking for 8 dancers to participate in their performance. The Myrna Loy has a small stipend for those dancer.
- Juniper Shuey will do a video workshop open to the public.
They will be performing on February 26. “Dancer/choreographers Scofield and Shuey incorporate video projection and naturalistic environments to tell evocative, exquisite stories.”
RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA QUARTET
March 11-13
Rudresh Mahanthappa is one of the great jazz saxophone players.
He will:
- Give master classes to saxophonists.
- Work with saxophone players in band, orchestra, or jazz band.
- Give lecture/demonstrations to bands, orchestra, or jazz bands.
On March 13, the whole quartet can do one school performance during the day before their evening public performance. Mahanthappa’s chops are unparalleled…music unlike anything else today…the rising star of the alto sax.
Bebe Miller
March 16-20
Want to bring your class to the Montana State Capitol during the Legislature. Do it the week Bebe Miller is in town and she & her company can do a movement workshop in the State Capitol with your class in a program called “Dancing in the Discourse.” She will also be available for classroom movement workshops and dance class workshops. The public performance of her new work Necessary Beauty will be on March 20. A creative force in contemporary dance reveals the unexpected but necessary artful movements of our live.
Pushcart Players
March 23-26
This wonderful theater company specializes in doing classroom activities in storytelling, theater activities, and ways to engage young people in elementary schools in learning to use their imagination in many ways from performing to writing to drawing to watching and learning. They can do small or large class groupings. Book them for one or several class workshops in your school or bring students to the Myrna Loy Center to work with them. They will do one performance at the Helena Middle School at the end of their week.
Chic Gamine
March 26
This innovative vocal supergroup from Winnipeg will do one 1/5 to 2 hr workshop for a school choir or for classes in Helena.
Video Editing Classes Individual workshops are available by appointment. The workshops focus on the fundamentals of digital editing, but can be tailored to meet the needs and experience level of any student. Classes are $40 each or four for $120. Each session includes one hour of interactive instruction, plus one hour of individual work using the Myrna Loy editing suite.
Benji Cosgrove, who holds an MFA in Media Arts from the University of Montana, will customize sessions to fit the interests and ability of each student. Workshops range from the basics of non-linear editing to complex title designs, special effects and outputting movies to DVD.
Video Editing Suite Rentals The Myrna Loy editing suite uses a Power Mac G4.
Software includes:
· Final Cut Pro
· IMovie
· Premier
· After Effects
· Photoshop
· Illustrator
· DVD Studio Pro
· IDVD
· Cleaner 5
Each class is held in the Myrna Loy Center's Editing Suite. Please call Benji at the Myrna Loy for more information - 443-0287.
Our digital editing suite is also available for rental at $20 an hour with a minimum of one hour. For reservations contact Benji.
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15 North Ewing
Helena, Montana 59601
Office: (406) 443-0287 Fax: (406) 443-6620
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