Eleanor Crowder
Eleanor Crowder is an award-winning actor, playwright and director. She brings real props and real-life questions which lead to rich inquiry, lighting up the classroom with story, improvisation and script.
Acting skills: voice warm-ups, iambic pentameter, rhetoric, physical acting, role-playing, use of heightened language. Language Arts: imagery and levels of language, explore Shakespearean language and characters, plot composition and narrative arcs; integrate writing with the dramatic arts; make meaningful connections between themselves, what they encounter in texts, and the world around them.

New Artist

New Program

Residency

Performance

Workshop

Seniors

English

French

French Immersion
Secret Shakespeare
Unlock Shakespeare's text as an actor. Use the patterns he writes into the text to understand and embody the jokes, the characters, the play of the texts. Younger grades will work with plot lines and commedia characters as a key to understand a play; older students will work with personal texts. They may also work from memorised lines for a deeper level of work.
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
|
30
|
Drama
|
Time and Price:
Half day: one 2 hour session $295 + HST Full day: two 2 hour sessions $395 + HST
|
My Life, My Story
Students will explore the elements of drama to create short performances from their own experiences. Students will gain better self-presentation skills, a stronger sense of narrative, and reflect on how telling their own stories presents them to the wider world. They will explore questions such as: what high points will they share? What struggles absorb them? How do they view the global picture? Students will express themselves through movement, dialogue, music and sound, and may create videos using their own devices.
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
|
30
|
Drama
|
Time and Price:
Half day: one 2 hour session $295 + HST Full day: two 2 hour sessions $395 + HST
|
SMILE - (performed by Eleanor Crowder, Katherine Grier and David da Costa)
Songs from the sunny side of life bring a smile and a tune to the lips of your audience. Kate and Eleanor set favourites from a lifetime of songs and stories to David’s guitar stylings. You're invited to listen, tap your toes or sing along. Join us for an hour of delight,designed to prompt your own stories.(Follow the show with a workshop to explore your clients’ personal story-telling.)
Seniors
|
|
Drama
|
Time and Price:
1 hour $460 + HST
|
Life Story
Using the participants' own experiences, they will perform
A Day in the Life, of their group, of their neighbourhood, of their family.
Performances include everyone present, and can be created in one visit, or over several sessions.
Seniors
|
12-18
|
Drama
|
Time and Price:
One 1 hour workshop $240 + HST Half day: Two 1 hour workshops $280 + HST
|
Groove - Songs and Stories for a Saturday Night Performed by Eleanor Crowder, Katherine Grier and David da Costa.
Songs and Stories for a Saturday Night celebrates the tug and humour of romance, teen to senior. Join us for an hour of music to stir hearts and set toes tapping, and for some laughs at our expense along the way. David's guitar carries us onto the dance floor, out to the moon and back.
Seniors
|
12-18
|
Music, Drama
|
Time and Price:
One performance: 1 hour - $460 + HST
|