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Current Projects Inner Vision: Creating Performance at Missouri School for the Blind Ten Percent: Sexual Orientation and Homophobia in the Workplace |
Position Available: Office Management and General Administration Position Available: Information Technology Support Position Available: Teaching Assistants/Artist Apprenticeships The DisAbility Project: Entering its 11th season, the DisAbility Project is Uppity’s longest-running project. This group is comprised of people with and without disabilities who are diverse in age, race, ethnicity, class, occupation, education, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, and performance experience. Some of the challenges facing participants include spinal cord injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, AIDS, alcoholism, asthma, cancer, Polio, stroke, epilepsy, blindness, brain injury, bipolar disorder, Down Syndrome, amputation, depression, and cognitive delay. Ensemble members engage in conversation, writing, sound, movement and theatrical exercises to create educational and entertaining performance pieces on the culture of disability. If interested in working with this project, you must be available for rehearsals (most Saturdays from September to July from 10 AM to 1 PM at the Washington University Program for Occupational Therapy at 4444 Forest Park Parkway). Confirmed performance dates include: Inner Vision: Creating Performance at the Missouri School for the Blind: Working with students attending the Missouri School for the Blind to develop a song and dance number based on the Sound of Music’s, “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.” A script for this performance piece has already been partially developed based on work done with students this past May. Culminating performance will take place some time mid-December. The VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program: The VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program is open to students in 6th-12th grade and challenges students of all abilities to take a closer look at the world around then, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. To be eligible, students most complete and submit a one-act play, created individually or in groups. Winning entries are presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Potential participating schools include: Roosevelt High School or the Missouri School for the Blind. As American as Apple Pie: GLBTQA youth from Gay Straight Alliances at local high schools come together to create theatre based on their own lived experience. Final performance pieces will be based on weekly workshop sessions and will include both scripted and improvisational material. Potential participating high schools include: Kirkwood, University City, Webster Groves, Clayton, Ritenour, and Affton. Alzheimer’s Association Performance Project: Group will run from November 7th to the end of April. Meetings will take place every other Tuesday at the Cardinal Ritter Senior Service Center at the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Participants will engage in conversation, writing, sound, movement and theatrical exercises to create a short educational and entertaining performance piece for a Volunteer Appreciation event to be held sometime in April. Hello?: Voices in the Darkness: The company is developing a short play 15-30 minutes about a suicide crisis hotline for Provident Counselling. The internship would include helping artistic director to develop the play, update script through out rehearsal process, run rehearsal and stage manage the show for the Wed Nov 1 debut at the Ritz Carleton
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