Basalt High School

We have two residencies running at Basalt High School:
-Original Theatre-Making
-Drumming
Scroll down to learn more about our drumming residency with newcomer students who have just arrived in the U.S. from Mexico and Central America.

Original Theatre-Making

Alongside Roaring Fork High School
Students create an original show in only 4 short weeks!

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Each winter, students from Roaring Fork High School and Basalt High School work with a group of teaching artists to create an original show in only 4 short weeks! We start these projects with blank slates – no script or title. The ideas onstage come from our remarkable youth ensemble under the guidance of our teaching artists. Using many different art forms, we create the shows.

Past Performances:

March 16 and 17, 2018 at Thunder River Theatre in Carbondale, CO

“I gained a heck ton of confidence””

— 2018 Participant, from student survey

The making-of VOICES Project 2018.

March 16, 2017, 7:30 - 8:30pm at Basalt High School Auditorium

“This project is one that I can see myself writing about in my college essays and one that has changed the person I am. I have grown while doing this project because it allowed me to open up and express what I feel. I never expected to write about being adopted but it changed me as a person, people in the play and also people who just watched the play. I was so surprised when I wrote a poem that actually meant something to people all around me. I opened up so much during this time, it was unbelievable to me.”

— 2017 Participant, from student survey

The making-of VOICES Project 2017.

Explore our Past Teaching Artists here.

Drumming

with Students from Leticia Ingram’s Newcomer Class

Breakdancer and Aztec dancer, Crystal Zamora, visits VOICES drumming workshop at BHS.

Local drummer, Eric Baumheier, works with students in-school for six weeks (two days per week). The result is a confident, cohesive youth drum circle! Drumming is an excellent way to release tension, expression emotion, build teamwork, and create safe space to do the vulnerable work of learning a new language and adjusting to a new school.