PERFORMING ARTS
To earn this award, complete and check off each requirement: 1. Practice your performance. 2. Showcase your talents.
Service Opportunity _____________________________ |
1. Practice your performance. (choose two)
Mime (do both)
Mime is a form of acting using no words or fancy costumes and few stage props. Performers present a story using just actions and facial expressions.
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Skit
A skit is a short dramatized joke or situation, usually lasting only two to five minutes. Costumes and props are simple.
Performers improvise on a basic idea rather than memorize lines from a script.
Do one of the following skits, or create one of your own. Make a few simple costumes and props. Practice your skit a few times so you know what you’re supposed to do.
Name of skit:
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Date performed:
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You will need: table, large paper or cardboard sign, large scissors
A fish seller sits at a table labeled with a large sign (paper or cardboard) reading “FRESH FISH FOR SALE HERE TODAY.” One by one, six customers come by. Each decides that one of the words on the sign is not necessary and tells the fish seller why. (For example: “Today—you don’t need that word. Anybody can tell you’re selling fish today.”) Each time, the fish seller cuts off the “unnecessary” word with the large scissors. Finally, only the word fish is left on the sign. The last customer comes by and says even that word is unnecessary since anyone can smell the fish a block away.
You will need: beach balls and buckets, lawn chairs, someone to make gull-like noises offstage
One person asks the other what those things floating in the water are. The friends says they’re buoys. Then the first person asks what all those noisy birds are that are squawking overhead. The friend says they’re gulls. So the first person concludes, “Oh, I get it—the gulls go where the buoys are!”
Monologue
A monologue is a story told by only one person. Choose an interesting story that can be told in three minutes or less. Tell about an experience that happened to you or to someone you know. Or find a monologue in a book at your library. Memorize your story and practice it out loud. Then present it for your group or a friend.
My monologue was about:
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Date presented:
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Play
Write your own special holiday play, and perform it for an audience.
Name of play:
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Date presented:
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2. Showcase your talents. (choose one)
Present a talent show.
Participate in a talent show, entertaining the audience in either a solo or group performance.
What I did in the talent show:
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Date performed:
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Present a musical performance.
Choose a song or compose a new song to sing or play on an instrument. Present your selection for friends.
Name of song:
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Date performed:
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Service Opportunity
Perform for a group in your community (such as at a children’s ward in a hospital, a nursing home, or a family shelter).
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