Adjectives from School House VaST

Three is a Magic Number: School House Vast

RUBBLE short documentary video

Thanks to John Schroeder of Abacus Film for making this short documentary about the RUBBLE project that our advanced troupe members participated in last session. Check it out!

New Dance Movie from the Wee Pal Players

Check out our youngest troupe members' new dance number.

WeePals Rock the Freight and Salvage

The WeePals stole the show as they performed with Kid Kaleidoscope at a Freight and Salvage Patchwork Series show. Here is one of their very fine performances:

The WeePal Players on stage with Octopretzel at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley

Modified

A new collaboration! VaST kids did toy modification at last summer's week-long VaST camp. John Schroeder created this music video to an original song by Sarita and her two daughters. It features toys and kids from VaST camp. Enjoy!!!!

New Short Film by the Wee Pal Players

This short film was conceived and created by our youngest troupe members.  It is based on a fantasy game that several of the girls played as we walked from school to rehearsal each week.  They created their own script and the finished product is PRECIOUS.  Enjoy!

SingSong Planet @ the Freight and Salvage with Orange Sherbet and Octopretzel

VaST's Intermediate troupe and the Wee Pal Players collaborated with two well known bay area bands to create a unique and wonderful family event.  The show was nearly sold out!  The Troupe sang and brought the bands' songs to life with skits and giant puppets.  Here are some highlights:

Halloween Highlights 2010, Ashkenaz

Vaudevillians Stage Troupe raised over $600 for Unicef this year and put on an AMAZING show.  Here are some highlights:

Halloween Cabaret Carnival Pictures from Ashkenaz 2009.

As I continue to book shows for the troupe for next session, I am coming across a lot of photo and video memories from the great time we had in Season One. Ashkenaz invited us back for our second Halloween Cabaret Carnival in their wonderful, family style venue.

Classes are about to be posted for the next season which will not only include performing in this great fundraiser for UNICEF in Haiti, but also a unique show at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley collaborating with Bay Area bands Orange Sherbet and Octopretzel in November. Here are some great shots of last year's show at Ashkenaz! Come join the fun for season two:

VIDEOS FROM VAST SUMMER CAMP 2010

We had 21 kids in our first week of Summer Camp! Not only did we make some very creative movies, but we did some crazy toy modification, walked goats on leashes, had a cake decorating contest, snail races, egg drops, chicken naming, theatre games, song writing, music video creating, costume craziness, and much, much more. It was a truly unique week of fun and creativity, and my favorite part of it was that it was all done "village style" with a mix of 5-13 year old troupe members with every age in between. Here are some of the movies we made...more soon.

VaST's Summer Adventure to Mexico

I am so excited to share one of our unique summer programs...a Performing Arts/ Spanish language and Culture experience in Tepoztlan, Morelos, MEXICO!!!

Please check out the blog we made on our adventure:
http://kidsinmind.blogspot.com/

More Highlights from the Winter Soul-stice Show!

Eli Sings Adam Sandler's Classic!

Ethan Lights Up the Stage!

Kaya and Shanti Singing OOm Pah Pah

Highlights from our Winter Show

Jonah and Claire "Baby its Cold Outside"

Tossa sings "Little Shadow"

Frances and Natalie singing "Fum Fum Fum".

Free To Be You And Me

Our next session will be a celebration of this 1970's classic...I have ALWAYS wanted to direct Free To Be You and Me!  I have been a fan ever since I was a little girl, and we still listen to the warped and scratched up LP.  My kids know all the words to the skits and songs...

If you would like to be a part of VaST's next session...please sign up and join us!  I am even going to arrange an adult workshop so that we can have an older generation represented in the show.  Check out the Website for dates and times of classes...we can't wait to begin! 

We will be putting on the show in May, giving us a lot of space and time to develop the show.  We will also be doing a fund-raising variety show March 28th @ Ashkenaz in Berkeley where the kids will get to pull from their favorite numbers, bring in their own acts and own the stage for two 40 minute sets.

JOIN US!  Let's Put On a Show

Our Movie Making Workshop Video!

Great Show at Ashby Stage Today!!!!

I am so proud of the troupe...they really stepped it up today singing and entertaining a very enthusiastic audience.  A video post will go up soon.  Thanks to everyone who made the show possible, the kids for their hard-work and dedication, and the Shotgun Players and Ashby Stage for sharing their amazing "Three Penny Opera" set! 

Join us for our Soul-stice show this Sunday at Ashby Stage!!!

Join Vaudevillians Stage Troupe for a unique and quirky holiday show Sunday, December 20th, 1:20 pm at the Ashby Stage (corner of Ashby and MLK, in Berkeley).  We have been performing at the Dickens Fair, and working on our Cockney accents...though our show is an eclectic one.  Without giving away too much, we have early 19th century vagabonds singing Jewish rap and old world drinking songs in a sing-off with young carolers lost on their way to Tiny Tim's house.  We have a unique storyline devised by the young troupe, and we will top it all off with the screening of a movie made at our first weekend movie making workshop.  Full of delights and surprises, we hope you will join us as we throw the Solstice, Christmas, Hannukah, some sausage, a drunken sailor, cockney accents, fantastic costumes and a super-hero goat movie onto one stage...($10 donation at the door).

Vaudevillians Rocked the Dicken's Fair!!

Vaudevillians Stage Troupe went a 'soulin' in Old London last Sunday!  They sang their hearts out, and delighted the audiences on two stages through-out the day.  The troupe, dressed in authentic turn of the century clothes, sang to hundreds of fair-goers.  Two VaST members even landed jobs at the fair, delivering telegrams around London-town, hollering in their cockney accents...it was a great time.

Please join us this Sunday at the Ashby Stage for our Solstice show.  Allow us to shed a little light on the darkest day of the year! 

Photos from the fair coming soon!