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Pat Lydersen
The Park Dale Players Everyone has lines,
everyone sings, everyone dances. |
HIDDEN TREASURES
An Encinitas Story Art Community Project
An Encinitas Story Art Community Project
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Pat Lydersen has a Masters degree in theatre and over thirty-five years experience as an actress, director, teacher and playwright. She began her career as an actress and a drama and dance teacher, helping her students write and perform original plays. Coming to Encinitas in 1985, Pat co-founded The Park Dale Players, producing plays she wrote, made the costumes and set for, as well as directed.
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The Park Dale Players has been a fixture in North County children’s theater for the last 30 years. They have produced four to eight original musicals a year, all of the scripts written by Pat with the music composed by Wendy. With Pat and Joanna directing Wendy as musical director and Joanna adding her talents as choreographer, their plays are written specifically to give every child a special character to play. Everyone has lines, everyone sings, everyone dances.
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Joanna Lydersen Joanna has a degree in theater and dance and spent many years as a dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher before becoming a partner with The Park Dale Players. Wendy Woolf Wendy, an artist and scientist, has been teaching art, science, and music her whole life. She joined The Park Dale Players as an actress and then became the music director and composer. |
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“I was completely unprepared for the enthusiasm and fun that I, and adult, would have watching a children’s theater performance!” Dorte Bistrup Imagination: Thinking Out of the Box |
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When writing, composing, choreographing and designing for children's theater, two words are critical: IMAGINATION NEEDED.
My artwork honors the tremendous imaginations of the three ladies who have created a very unique children's theater called The Park Dale Players. Having seen a few of their plays to prepare me for this project, I was completely unprepared for the enthusiasm and fun that I, and adult, would have watching a children's theater performance! And so I was inspired by my reaction to create a fun piece, one that would hopefully impart a bit of interpretive imagination to the viewer. |
Dorte Bistrup
Mixed Media Artist |
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I am a mixed media artist who uses clay,paint, collage, and textiles in my work. I sometimes say that I am self-taught, but that is not totally true. I've taken painting and drawing classes. I've gone to mixed media art workshops. However, it wasn't until I took a clay class that I discovered my imagination. Then came book arts, an art form in which I could express myself through collage and paint, and remind myself where I had traveled physically and metaphorically. Next came the dolls, an art form of unintended storytelling. All art has two stories. . that of the artist and that of the viewer.
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159th Street Theatre
Wendy Becomes A Composer
Jona Sings
HiddenTreasures was funded by the Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Foundation, The City of Encinitas and Mizel Family Foundation Community Grant Program, the Fletcher Family Foundation, the County of San Diego and many generous local businesses and residents.
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