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CYOP: Create Your Own Project

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

CYOP stands for:

a)

Craving Your Own Potatoes

b)

City:Yesterday's Ordinary Pressure

c)

Cutting Young Orthodontic Pastries

d)

Create Your Own Production

2.

An artist's statement (check all that apply):

a)

is the wedding toast of the art world.

b)

When an artist puts time and energy into crafting their message beforehand, so they’ll help the audience feel more deeply.

c)

The goal here is to create a clear, concise and compelling artist statement.

d)

A zombie apocalypse.

3.

A simple action, when analyzed in minute detail, can be hilarious. Describe a familiar action such as eating an orange, sharpening a pencil or washing your hair in minute detail. See yourself performing the action. Describe it in as much detail as you can.

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4.

Actors must take classes, train, just as dancers or musicians do. Audition for everything, even if you think you’re wrong for it. The actor who is talented and interesting and committed is more likely to get the role than someone who is “right.”

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What authentic issue that requires solving do you want to address when you Create Your Own Project? Choose one (or more) of the following: Racial Justice, Health Care, Violence, Homelessness, Food Insecurity or one of your choosing. Write why this issue has is important below:

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6.

The playwright Anton Chekov wrote, “You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have.”

a)

True

b)

False

7.

“It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.” – Tina Fey


What performance have you done for theatre this year that you are proud of? *

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8.

Greek theatre developed out of rituals celebrating the god Dionysus, what rituals do you practice in your family?

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9.

“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.” -Terrence Mann

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Theatre Arts Standards DO NOT provide a goal for you to strive for when you create your own production.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Viola Spolin's phrase "See it with your elbow!" is a way to express...

a)

the arrival of the Queen to dinner.

b)

how to tap dance while standing on your head.

c)

the importance of total body awareness.

12.

According to Monica Saucedo, dancer for Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theatre...(check all that apply)

a)

She is grateful to have the chance to rehearse and practice in a studio again.

b)

She tried practicing at home, but found herself falling behind in her technique.

c)

She reminds herself to be patient and focus on moving forward.

d)

She appreciates the opportunity to perform again.

e)

The last time she danced in front of an in-person audience was in January 2020.