Special Performances and Projects

Project SUCCESS is dedicated to developing programming unique to the culture and needs of each school's students. This might take the form of an all-school field trip to the theater, a Project SUCCESS-produced musical or play, or some other specially designed activity. Here are some examples of other special performances and projects offered:

In collaboration with Xelias Aerial Arts Studio, Project SUCCESS leads students at Minneapolis' Northeast Middle School through a transformative experience using aerial arts as the tool. In small groups, students have a chance to watch aerial artists perform and then each student has a chance to actually have a hands-on experience doing aerial arts. The students are able to link this experience in supportive risk-taking with the experience of their own day-to-day lives and the risk of going after their dreams.

At Humboldt Middle School in Saint Paul, a group of students participate in an after school, spoken word workshop for two weeks. These workshops, led by a local artist and a Project SUCCESS faciliator, focus on using spoken word as an outlet for self-expression, and help students impove their performance skills. Students work as a community to generate and perform their work, either to an audience or on a CD.

In collaboration with Mu Performing Arts, Rick Shiomi, its Artistic Director, and a Project SUCCESS facilitator, conduct, The Stories Project, a four-week long in-class program for the English Language Learner students at Washington Technology Magnet Middle School in Saint Paul. Students learn to use non-verbal creative media, such as dance and art, to communicate their stories of immigration to an audience of their peers. The project helps students articulate and tell their personal stories through the performing arts, thus supporting leadership self-esteem, interpersonal skills and English language development; and build a broader understanding of the arts and themselves.