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Arts Coming Back to Central

• First student theater production in a decade, The Runaways by Elizabeth Swados, performed at the Bishop McVinney Theatre, April 3, 2004. A team of teachers volunteers their time (Sue Friendson, Michael Colannino, Charlene Arkway, Richard Gurspan, and Bianca Gray). The audience exceeds 500 and the Providence Journal writes a feature story.
  

• Teachers and students attend performances at Trinity Repertory Company, Perishable Theater, and Providence Performing Arts Center with tickets donated by the theaters. This is the first time Central students have watched live theater in the city since 1994.
  

• Local actors and playwrights come to Central to work with students, including: Barry Press of the Living Theater, Mark Lerman of the Perishable Theater, and William Yellowrobe, Native American playwright, and artist-in residence at both Brown University and Trinity Repertory Company.
  

• Everett Dance Theatre takes up residence at Central for one week and works a full day with every 9th grade team on making movies (students made films about their new experience as high schoolers), watching educational movies and discussing them, and seeing a production of Somewhere in the Air, a concert work by the Everett that examines changes in public education in the last 50 years (Fall 2004).
  

• In the fall of 2003, the Central Dance Team bursts on the scene and closes the year with an evening of dance with original choreography by director, Donna Paolino. This year's team includes several male dancers. The Dance Team will perform more original works in May.

  

• During the 2004-2005 school year, two theater classes are part of the electives at the school (only one theater class existed before), and music is added (but with one teacher for almost 300 students per week).
  

• Music teacher Don Mills begins a chorus and by Christmas, the chorus performs in public place including the statehouse and Bannister Nursing Home (December 2004).
  

• Theatre teacher Michael Colannino and his students create a public presentation in honor of Black History Month with dance, music and text developed and performed by the students.
  

• Central's public speaking class, lead by Michael Malardo, performs at the RISD Museum's celebration honoring Langston Hughes. Students received standing ovations for their dramatic readings of his poetry, the first such honor given to a visiting performing group.
  

• Theatre teacher Richard Gurspan and his students write their own monologues, which they will combine into a single play and perform in May 2005.