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Now in its 17th year serving Los Angeles with award-winning sign language theatre, Deaf West Theatre is pleased to offer the following educational programming for Spring 2009 .

Dramatic Gestures seeks to positively impact the literacy and communication skills of deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students through the analysis and creation of theater. Through classroom communities, all students, regardless of ability, will experience confidence, teamwork and self-expression through the exploration of theater. We aim to build students' artistic perception through exposure to professional performances and empower their creative expression through the development and performance of their own dramatic scenes. With these activities, we seek to provide deaf and hard of hearing students with valuable role models and to positively impact the mainstream perception of deaf culture and its contribution to the arts. Deaf West Theatre is the only organization in the Los Angeles area offering schools authentic arts education programming delivered in both American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English, creating a unique cross-cultural experience.
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In-School Performances are professional, bi-lingual/bi-cultural children's productions that allow for fluid interaction and idea sharing between both hearing and deaf children. It also provides an opportunity to develop the capacity for artistic expression, which in turn leads to improved self-esteem and confidence for all participants. Through this opportunity, DWT aims to deepen its impact within underserved schools. In-depth sign language translations, which accurately preserve the tone, humor, rhythms and intentions of the source material, will enable deaf and hard of hearing students to engage in literature in the same manner as their hearing classmates.

This Spring, Deaf West Theatre presents Stories by Shel featuring The Giving Tree and other poems by Shel Silverstein. Performances will also be available at our North Hollywood space Saturdays on March 28, April 4 and April 11 at 11am and 2pm.

  
Theater Residency Programs exposes deaf and hard of hearing children to literature and self-expression through exposure to the performing arts. Deaf students, along with their hearing classmates, experience classroom instruction delivered in both ASL and spoken English. Students participate in classroom sessionswith DWT artists and explore theatre arts, literature, American Sign Language and Deaf culture. Classroom activities are designed to build skills of artistic perception, literary analysis and creative expression through an interdisciplinary curriculum.

For more information or to book a performance or workshop at your school, please contact us at 818-762-2998 or info@deafwest.org.

Dramatic Gestures is supported in part by the Department of Education, National Endowment for the Arts and the Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation.

 

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