Junkman Music
Junkman Music - October 26, 2011 - Crescent Park Elementary
Donald Knaack (aka The Junkman) travels to the beat of a different drummer. As a conservatory-trained percussionist who has been a member of the Louisville Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic and a studio percussionist and drummer in the studios of Hollywood, he now exclusively composes-for and performs-on junk and recycled materials. And it's called Junk Music and it???s a unique collection of infectious grooves and musical styles that's gaining audiences from every spectrum of the music business - from rock to jazz to world music. Impossible to categorize, worldwide audiences are recognizing Junk Music is eye-opening, provocative and entirely new. He offers the following programs: Interactive concerts, school residencies, making sound sculptures from recycled materials, customized performances/residencies. His recent Performances have been at the Kennedy Center, Seoul Drum Festival, and the Summer Series Dubai. http://www.junkmusic.org/
Karen Montenaro
Karen Montenaro - January , 2012
Andover/Woodstock-10 AM
Crescent Park Elementary-1PM
Karen is a solo performer, an award-winning choreographer, and the innovator of "mimedance," the fusion of two classical art forms. Karen studied ballet at the Cantarella School of Dance, the Ram Island Dance Center and on scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet School. She danced professionally with the Ohio Ballet and the Darmstadt Opera Ballet in Germany. Upon moving back to the Unites States, Karen also danced principal roles with the Portland Ballet Company. For more than a decade, Karen toured and taught internationally with mime master, Tony Montanaro. She currently tours the world with her one-woman show entitled "Tanzspiel." Ms. Montanaro is a teaching artist and offers residencies in movement, mime and dance in public and private schools throughout the United States. Over the past fifteen years, Karen Montanaro has performed in hundreds of schools both as a soloist and in partnership with master mime Tony Montanaro. Using material drawn from her full evening concerts, Karen entertains and educates students about the art forms of mime and dance and uses her phenomenal technique and control in both ballet and performance-mime to tell stories through movement. http://www.mimetheatre.com/
Piti Theater:
Elmer and the Elder Tree
Piti Theater: Elmer and the Elder Tree - April TBA, 2012 - Crescent Park Elementary
"Elmer and the Elder Tree" is the Piti Theatre Company's artful, arboreal fable which teaches children about nature while capturing their imaginations. This adult learned a thing or two about Elder trees, as well. Elmer (Jonathan Mirin) plays a citified everyman who flees to the forest and finds helpful bees, birds and a comforting Elder tree (all painted and animated through mime and dance by Godelieve Richard). The charming tale is conceived and performed by Mirin and Richard against a magical backdrop of gorgeous butterflies, gleaming mushrooms and colorful beetles (and wonderfully noisy, evocative music). The hour long show is interactive so the children, and their parents, are invited on stage to join in the action. A little boy in my audience was continually delighted by the rising sun and setting moon, which he announced whenever Richard pulled the lever to reverse the orbs. Clearly, the kids get it. And you'll leave with your very own seeds to plant when you get home. What could be nicer?" http://www.ptco.org/elmer.html
Children's Stage Adventures
Residency & Performances
Residency & Performances - May 14-19, 2012 Crescent Park Elementary
The Sword Called Excalibur
This high-quality theater experience is intended to open doors for students to develop new or strengthen existing skills through the study of theater craft. During the residency students will have opportunities to work on all sides of the production from acting and singing to stage management, direction, lighting, sound engineering and costume design. CSA has tailored its programs to impart a variety of theatrical and life skills such as self-discipline, concentration, responsibility, understanding the value of teamwork, developing the ability focus on goals and to make choices, creating a sense of self awareness, and learning about stage presence, vocal projection, memorization and recitation.
