by: Kimberly Johnson
IDEAS Project Feature | Relationships with Alzheimer's
Starting with this project, our website will feature a gallery of student work. If you are interested in learning more about the thinking and writing that lead to the project below, please visit the Relationships with Alzheimer's Gallery Page.
In the Fall 2014, a collaboration began around the art form of contemporary dance and personal connections to Alzheimer's Disease. As part of IDEAS Project Block, the five students performing in this video spent a semester researching different aspects of the disease, engaging in the community, and choreographing an original dance.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"How does Alzheimer's affect a relationship? Alzheimer’s requires intensive care, strong relationships, lifestyle changes, and it needs more recognition. To show how Alzheimer’s affects relationships, my group and I chose the art form of contemporary dance. We show the effects with our roles and storyline. Starting off as people that know that Alzheimer's exists but have not experienced it. That is showed by the wandering and the insync movement. Then, leading into one of us getting Alzheimer’s, causing the rest of us to react trying to comfort her. Unfortunately, another one of us gets it. From there were trying to move on and be the best we can for them. Eventually, yet again, another person gets it. Leaving the last two people as caregivers, they try to support them and struggle. To make our dance more informational, we made sure we showed the struggles between the people with Alzheimer's and their caregivers. We would like our audience to remember that it needs more recognition so that fewer families need to go through the struggle." - Cassandra Grande, Class of 2018
VIDEO PRODUCTION by 2014-2015 Étude Studios Interns Kelsey Fick & Alex Valenciana
by: Michael Q. Hanlon
IDEAS Acting Seminar performs original script
This week the Acting Seminar is performing a script titled "Capture the Flag Practice" written by student Arden Howland as part of Camp Étude, an after school Drama Production Club.
by: Michael Q. Hanlon
IDEAS Acting Seminar Explores Radio Drama
Every year in the Acting Seminar, students spend a week exploring a variety of theatrical styles before selecting one to study for the trimester. This year, one section of students opted to study radio drama. For our first recording, we selected two scripts from The Five Mysteries Program, an anthology radio show that ran from 1947 to 1950 in the United States.
by: Kyle Whelton, Class of 2011
Alumni Feature : Kyle Whelton, Class of 2011
TEG-Student-KyleWhelton In June of 2011, after four incredible years at etude, I graduated in the first generation of students to attend what would become IDEAS for the entire tenure of my high school career. When I walked the bowl in June, I had a plan for the next five to ten years of my life. I was going to attend Marquette University for my undergraduate education, go on to law school, and then practice somewhere in Wisconsin. Fast-forward 3 years to March of 2014. I was a junior at Marquette University on track to graduate with a 4.0, running for Student Government President, and studying for the LSAT in preparation for the grueling process of applying to law school. But instead of worrying about taking the LSAT, one of the most notoriously hard graduate school entrance exams, I had a paralyzing anxiety of the idea of attending law school.
by: Davina Boykin, Class of 2015
Youth Apprenticeship Feature : Davina Boykin '15
TEG Student DavinaBoykin2015 My name is Davina Boykin, and I am a senior at IDEAS Academy. I am a QA Youth Apprentice at Rockline Industries. I first learned about the Youth Apprenticeship program from my friend, Victoria Hoppe, who was, at the time, a STEM Youth Apprentice at Kohler Company. She was working on advanced CAD (computer-aided design) drawings that were then being used by the Kohler Engineers. The more she spoke about her job, the more interested I became. So, intrigued as I was, I attended one of the information nights at LTC, and the information I received there only increased my motivation to apply. By participating in the program, you get real-world job experience, high school and college credit, and you even get paid for it. Not to mention, you also make valuable connections in the working world. All of this, and more, convinced me that I wanted to be a Youth Apprentice. And so, I applied.
by: Tad Phippen Wente, Chief Curatorial Officer
Gallery News : January 22, 2015
Beginning today, the IDEAS/Mosaic Balcony Gallery is home to some life-sized musical instruments: people! Mosaic Voice Seminar students recently completed their study of how the parts of the human body must function together to make quality sound. Through singing, students practice and learn how their voices sound. Through understanding where crucial points in the body are and how they work, students learn to sound better. With a kind of “kinesthetic memory” they balance their instruments, just as one might balance fingerings and bow strokes on a cello or embouchure and air to play a clarinet.
by: Kimberly Johnson
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by: Erica Brown
IDEAS Shadow Day
Students interested in learning more about IDEAS Academy are invited to attend our Shadow Day on Thursday, January 29th from 7:55 a.m. to 3:06 p.m.
by: Tad Phippen Wente
FAFSA is focus of Senior Institute Tuesday
Senior Institute January 20, during Advisory, will focus on FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Seniors will set up their individual accounts and make a list of information they will need from parents.
by: Tad Phippen Wente, Chief Curatorial Officer
Gallery News : January 9, 2015
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