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2004-2005
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HOUSE SERIES
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Black Moon Theatre Company is a pioneering
organization recognized in the North Brooklyn community
for creating programs that connect youth with the arts.
We settled in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area of Brooklyn,
New York, a traditionally under-served community in
the arts. Our Educational Outreach Program was launched
in January, 2002 at the Greenpoint YMCA’s After-School
Program. This program is a year-long working with children
5-12 years old and introduces them to physical theatre
and discovering how to be comfortable and aware of their
own non-verbal physicality and gestures. Each class
is one hour and a half, weekly and teaches the basics
of performance theatre. This program empowers children
to liberate their creative imaginations and with this
creativity, we will present two productions per school
year. Our goal is to replicate this program and expand
it to other local schools.
This year BMTC is branching out to more community-based
youth organizations throughout Brooklyn, for example to
El Puente Leadership Center, a community center in
Williamsburg that serves primarily young people and
their families. The Center has a membership after-school
and weekend program.
An extension of our Educational Outreach
Program is our Summer Youth Program. This program is
six weeklong sessions that allows North Brooklyn parents
to offer their children a dynamic summer experience.
This program was developed directly from expressed needs
of the community, using results from a questionnaire
distributed throughout the area. New programs allow
Black Moon Theatre Company to continue its focus on
its social and educational mission and offer a fun and
structured way for kids of all ages to explore their
artistic and creative impulses. This program offers
acting games, body movement exercises and a final performance
allowing our students to demonstrate their abilities
to express their own ideas and emotions. The programs
teachers are arts education instructors and trained
company members who have dedicated themselves to artistically,
ethnically, and socially diverse theatre.
If you are interested in our Programming,
please call the office : 718-302-1700
or send an email: info@blackmoontheatrecompany.org
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