J-Term
For the first three weeks of January each year, J-Term replaces a student’s regularly scheduled academic and arts classes. Students are immersed in daily rehearsals for an arts performance project. J-Term is considered a “how to rehearse” class, giving all students an opportunity to be in a formal rehearsal process. Rehearsals culminate with one or more workshop-style performances for family and peers. J-Term endeavors to replicate the professional experience, introduce students to professional venues and artists, and engages students in the artistic energy of rehearsals/performances under the direction of SPCPA faculty and/or guest professional artists. J-Term is an important part of our training.
J-Term is curricular and required as part of SPCPA’s regular academic year. Students earn a full credit for successful participation; grades are Pass or Fail. Students are required to attend daily rehearsals and performances; participation is not optional. The school’s attendance policies do apply to J-Term, but on a condensed scale: two (2) unexcused absences during J-Term puts a student in jeopardy of not passing J-Term. Parents/Guardians are still responsible for reporting attendance matters (Attendance Hotline: 651-222-3200, press 1 to skip ahead to the beep).
J-Term Reveal #12: We are absolutely thrilled-over the moon, in fact-to announce that dance piece #4 (of 5) will be choreographed by SPCPA’s founding Dance Dept. chair, MAGGIE BERGERON. Not only will Maggie be joining us for this project, but so will her partner, NICK GAUDETTE, former SPCPA Instrumental Music chair. Nick will provide music for the piece. This project will also provide opportunity for a few symphonic students. Welcome back Nick and Maggie-we are super excited to have you with us in January!
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What a dream!
Fantastic!!!
Soooooo great!
Absolutely LOVE the staff throwback happening with this one!! Yay Maggie and Nick!
Maggie Bergeron !!
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2024 J-Term reveal #11: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Kaufman & Hart.
The Pulitzer Prize winning play from 1937, though almost 100 years old, still resonates. It features a large cast of eccentric characters, and will give students the opportunity to work alongside veteran Twin Cities professional actor and former SPCPA Musical Theatre Dept. Chair, GARY BRIGGLE, who will play Grandpa Martin Vanderhof. Brian Goranson will direct. Rehearsals will begin at SPCPA and then move to The Jungle Theater for weeks 2 and 3. This project also will include an opportunity for approximately 8 students interested in set building and prop design!
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J term at the jungle is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
J-Term Reveal #10: What was, what will be, and everything in between…
…is an exhibition that asks students to consider where we’ve been, where we are now, and how that informs the futures we dream of. As kids our reality is so heavily informed by what we are able to see in front of us and our wildest imaginations of the worlds that could be. How has the passage of time, the people, places and memories that we’ve experienced, shaped and molded the versions of ourselves that question, conjure, and desire what is next to come? This prompt asks you to view time as non-linear. How can we communicate the passage of time and co-occurrences into a single unified work? Pulling notes from the genre of Afrofuturism, how might you utilize history, science fiction, and fantasy to communicate your own personal experience with the passage of time? In 3 weeks we will dig into the process of conceptualizing from the basis of the prompt provided. We will consider how surface, material, and content can communicate the deeper messages you are exploring and we will round our course out with a group exhibition @Public Functionary Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis.
Maiya Lea Hartman is the project curator and is excited to work again with SPCPA students for J-Term – thank you Maiya!
Watch Maiya talk about Public Functionary in this video: publicfunctionary.org/pf-video
More info about PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY: publicfunctionary.org/
More about Maiya Lea Hartman: maiyaleaartist.com/About
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J-Term Reveal #9: Amanda Sachs will choreograph one of the 5 SPCPA J-Term dance pieces this year!
Amanda grew up in New Jersey studying R.A.D. before moving to San Francisco for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. In 2014, Sachs joined The Francesca Harper Project in NYC and toured internationally with Metamorphosis Dance. In 2017 joined TU Dance in MN, where she performed Alvin Ailey’s solo Witness and Night Creature, Walking with Pearl: Africa Diaries by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and numerous other works. She is an original member of Come Through, produced by Liquid Music in collaboration with Grammy-winning musician Bon Iver and TU Dance. She is featured in Bon Iver’s Naeem and We lyric videos, and has performed at the Bonnaroo and Eaux Claires music festivals. In 2020, Sachs presented her first self choreographed solo Still for The Cowles 6 FEET/ 6 SOLOS. Sachs joined NW Dance Project in Portland in 2021,where she performed works by Ihsan Rustem, Yin Yue, Joseph Hernandez, Sarah Slipper, and Luca Veggetti and toured internationally. She has performed locally with Honeyworks and Hatch Dance for their Live @ The Shed series in 2021 and 2022. Sachs premiered in Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Invisible Cities as well as Cold Air Rises by Ben Frost as part of The Great Northern Festival in Minnesota. In 2023, she made her opera debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago this Spring in Carmen and joined PARA.MAR, performing original works by Helen Simoneau and Stephanie Martinez. Most recently, Sachs presented her first work Searching for Giants, co-choreographed with Elena Hollenhorst for MN Orchestra.
The dance concert will perform at the E.M. Pearson Theater at Concordia.
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J-Term reveal #8: SPCPA is absolutely THRILLED to partner with Ten Thousand Things Theater Company (TTT) for J-Term this year! The piece is called, TEN THOUSAND VOICES: YOUTH – a performance interpretation of creative writing submissions from youth across the Twin Cities. This project will immerse participating students in the unique and extraordinary Ten Thousand Things experience.
It be directed by veteran Twin Cities and TTT actor, George Keller (Emilia). Students will have the opportunity to perform alongside 3 professional TTT artists: Brian Bose (Mlima’s Tale, Twelfth Night), Isabella Condo (Iphegenia) and Ben Lohrberg (Into the Woods). The show will tour to 4 schools in the metro area (South High, South Education Center, Avalon School and Patrick Henry High) in the style of TTT. TTT performs in the round, with the lights on – minimal sets and live music. The result is a performance that engages the imagination of their audiences. Through this dynamic exchange, artists and audiences breathe new life into theater together, reminding us that theater is essential to all of our lives. TTT encourages students interested in all aspects of theater to participate, including but not limited to: acting, stage management, props and costume design, visual arts and more. TTT will be at SPCPA in the fall with their production of Twelfth Night and for additional workshops that will clarify this project further. TTT is really looking forward to this and hope to see you there!
More about TTT: tenthousandthings.org/
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J-Term reveal #7: WRRP
SPCPA Social Studies & Music teacher Adam Levy is the project lead. Adam, of course, is a veteran of the Minnesota rock scene, best known for leading up the alt-rock band The Honeydogs. And now is songwriter and member of the band, Turn Turn Turn. As a prolific songwriter and producer, he has worked across many genres and performed worldwide.
The Project’s TITLE says it all. Instrumentalists and vocalists will spend the first 2 weeks of J-Term at SPCPA writing and rehearsing material. Week 3, the recording process begins as the project moves to The Terrarium Recording Studio. There will also be a promotional element to the process. Many thanks to Jason Orris at Terrarium! This will be a fun one!
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