History
& Social Studies
We
learn who we are through the arts. They teach us about the people
from whom we have descended and they teach us the values we hold
dear. Music, dance, theatre, storytelling, and even magic can be
a vehicle for exploring our own history.
Young
Audiences has added programs around one of the most pivotal moments
of our countries history: the Civil War. Look for new programs by
perennial favorites Steve Kohrherr and Rainbow Puppets. Also, look
here to find the many new and exciting additions to the Young Audiences
Roster. From Music to Theatre to Dance, we have it all!
Note: Contact the
Scheduling Department for subsidized pricing available in certain
areas.
Dance
Hoofing
in America
Tap
Team Two
In this energetic program by Tap Team Two, students learn the history
of American Tap dance. By presenting a contemporary perspective
on Tap dance as an American art form, this program stimulates pride
in our culture while keeping the art form alive and growing. The
cultures from which Tap emerged (Irish, African and American) are
highlighted in the program.
Grades: 4-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $675 / Back-to-Back $1,025
Technical Requirements: This program requires the use of a wooden
stage. If you do not have a wooden stage available then Tap Boards
can be added for an additional fee of $75.
Tour Dates:
November 10-14, 2008
February
2-6, 2009
Tap
Into Harlem
Tap
Team Two
This dance program returns to the heyday of tap in the New York
City neighborhood known as Harlem . The art forms of Harlem were
new and inspiring audiences, both black and white. Learn about its
beginnings in a city that has given so much to America, the African
American community and the world in the form of art, dance, poetry
and music. Join Tap Team Two as they return to the Harlem Renaissance
to remind us who we are, where we've been and where we are going.
Grades: 4-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $675 / Back-to-Back $1,025
Technical
Requirements: This program requires the use of a wooden stage. Tap
Boards can not supplement for a wooden stage for this program. If
you do not have a wooden stage available then please consider booking
Tap Team Two's program Hoofing in America .
Tour
Dates:
November
10-14, 2008
February
2-6, 2009
Oh,
Freedom!
Nubian
Dance Theatre
This program celebrates the inspirational songs, music, stories
and dances of African Americans in search of freedom. This program
shows the triumphs created from a tragic portion of American history.
Students will explore the Antebellum south, black inventors, slave
narratives & children's stories, along with reflections on the
Civil Rights Movement that shaped this nation. This interactive
performance encourages students to be involved. It is educational,
enjoyable and adapted for varied age groups.
Grades: K-5, 6
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $895 / Back-to-Back $1,295
Music
The
Blues: Roots of Rock and Hip Hop
Curtis
Blues
Delta blues musicians were musical innovators who played harmonica
and guitar in unique ways to express more feeling in their music
than was traditionally considered acceptable. Now the techniques
they invented are heard on radios all over the world. This presentation
makes history come alive through performance and demonstrations
of the musical techniques used by the African American inventors
of Delta style blues in the 1920's to1940's. This program introduces
students to the musical geniuses who invented modern music: sharecropper
musicians from the Mississippi delta like Charley Patton, Son House
and Robert Johnson. This show recognizes the musical contribution
of the African American founders of the Delta blues.
Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $750 / Back-to-Back $950
The
Rhythm of the Blues
Curtis
Blues
Blues preservationist and one man band, Curtis Blues, brings the
sound of the 1920-1940 acoustic Mississippi Delta blues into your
classroom. Tracing rhythms from work songs, this show demonstrates
these infectious blues rhythms in their historical context. Inviting
students on stage to imagine cutting down trees and sawing wood
to blues music helps students feel the natural rhythm of Delta blues.
They will leave this show with an appreciation for the artists who
have had people's feet tapping since the 1920's.
Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $750 / Back-to-Back $950
The
History of the Acoustic Delta Blues
Curtis
Blues
Delta blues lyrics are African American poetry that contains the
history of
a
lost culture and era in US history. There are delightful secrets
hidden in blues lyrics. Poetic blues lyrics express universal human
conditions, emotions and humor. In this interactive show, students
will help one man band Curtis Blues write and perform a blues song
during the presentation. He demonstrates how to write and perform
a traditional blues song using images that are familiar to the audience
while performing on 1930's style guitars.
Grades: 6-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $750 / Back-to-Back $950
Colonial
American Music
Stephen
Christoff
Stephen Christoff performs songs from the Colonial period in America.
Your students will learn about life in these times. Accompanying
his multi-Octave vocalizations are his guitar and Octave Mandolin.
He captivates the audience with instruments and sounds that they
may have never heard or seen before, such as his hand-flute, bowed
musical saw and Jaw Harp. Colonial times were alive with music and
Stephen Christoff will lead your students to a greater understanding
of the importance of music in colonial life.
Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Single:
$475 / Back-to-Back $700
Rhythm
& Song: From Africa to America
Teasley
& Williams
Explore the connections from Africa to America with Tom Teasley
and Charles Williams, as they play traditional African instruments
and discuss the cultural connections. They then expand their program
to highlight the African American experience, including New Orleans
jazz and the American spiritual. This program takes a significant
historical event and turns it into something tangible. Your children
will leave with greater understandings of African American history.
Grades: 1-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Single:
$825 / Back-to-Back $1,395
The
American Dream
American
Jazz
The American Jazz Ensemble plays the music of African-American artists
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Al Jarreau and Michael
Jackson. Through this music, students are guided through the tour
of the development of jazz in America; its roots, and its connections
to the social and political climate of the times.
Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $775 / Back-to-Back $1,110
Extended
Learning Packages:
A:
$925 / B: $1,260
Living
Jazz
J.
Plunky Branch Duo
J. Plunky Branch performs traditional and contemporary jazz music
that explores the early roots of this art at the start of the Harlem
Renaissance. Using keyboard, tenor sax, alto sax, traditional African
flutes, shakers and other instruments, students will learn of the
movement that gave birth to some of the greatest music in America!
Grades: K-5, 6-8
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $925 / Back-to-Back $1,480
Songs
In Blue
MSG
Acoustic Blues Trio
Join Acoustic Blues Trio as they sing the Piedmont Blues and explore
the history of African American music as it relates to the roots
of the blues. Students will learn the origins of work songs while
participating in the rich vocal blues history of call and response.
Students will be encouraged to sing along and play in a blues kazoo
band.
Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $1,025 / Back-to-Back $1,595
Extended
Learning Packages:
A:
$1,125 / B: $1,695
Tour Dates: February 10 – 13, 2009
Additional dates may be available in certain areas.
Yo
Ho Ho Exploring We Will Go
Cindy
& Shelly
Join Cindy and Shelly as they set sail as pirates from Virginia
to the Caribbean. In this fun and entertaining program, students
will learn about explorers and adventurers like Christopher Columbus,
Captain Christopher Newport, and Captain John Smith. They will also
learn about famous pirates of the Atlantic and Caribbean. This journey
will captivate your student's imagination and educate them on the
history of exploration and the maritime history of the Atlantic
seaboard.
Grades:
K-5, 6
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $475 / Back-to-Back $675
The
Nifty Fifty
Cindy
& Shelly
Cindy and Shelly will take your students on a memorable tour of
our fifty states. Combining music with geography, social studies
and history, the program helps students learn about the major products
of each state, important geographic facts and musical traditions
from each region. Students learn songs to remember the state names,
physical geography and spelling. History has never been more fun
or easier to remember!
Grades: K-5, 6
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $475 / Back-to-Back $675
Discovering
Virginia
Cindy
& Shelly
This program teaches lessons about our home state. While on an imaginative
trip with popular folk musicians Cindy and Shelly, students become
aware of our geography, the stories of pirates off our coast and
even some of the great writers from Virginia. Students get involved
by playing the “Virginia Jeopardy” game, and then meet several U.S.
presidents who called Virginia home.
Grades:
K-5, 6
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $475 / Back-to-Back $675
Storytelling
Immigrant
Quilts
Arianna
Ross
Storyteller, Arianna Ross, explores the history of immigration in
the United States through storytelling, dance, and music. Celebrate
the American journey to and survival in a new land. Many people
came to our shores by choice while others were forced to come, bringing
with them only their stories. Travel back in time to Senegal , Russia
, and England to hear historical stories of immigration to the US
from the 1600's to today. Walk away with a broader understanding
of your community from the past to the present.
Grades:
K-5, 6-8
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $575 / Back-to-Back $775
Availability:
March 9-13, 2009
Theatre
Ol'
Bess Speaks At A Gathering
Shelia
Arnold
Ol' Bess, a tavern slave from 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia,
stops by in costume and shares stories about her life, joys, sorrows
and hopes. She also invites folks to a slave-gathering and shares
the tales of humor, lessons and dreams from her time period. Students
are encouraged to sing and act along in this moving and inspirational
performance.
Grades: 2-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $475 / Back-to-Back $650
Oney
Judge
Shelia
Arnold
Oney Judge was the personal maidservant to Martha Washington from
the time George Washington was elected to attend the Continental
Congress until the end of his 2nd term as president. We meet Oney
in the latter part of her life as she talks about her life with
the Washingtons, her home and upbringing. Oney is best known for
running away and seeking her freedom right before the end of Washington's
2nd term as president. Your students will learn about Oney Judge's
court battle with the Washingtons to remain free and her later life
as a free woman.
Grades: 2-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $475 / Back-to-Back $650
Harriet Tubman: The Chosen One
InterAct
Story Theatre featuring Gwen Briley-Strand
This dynamic one-woman show celebrates the life and contributions
of the great African-American leader, Harriet Tubman. It was written
and is performed by Gwen Briley Strand of Interact Story Theater
with outstanding artistry. The artist transforms herself into a
multitude of characters as she recreates the story of Harriet Tubman's
early years. Follow her footsteps from life as a slave to her escape,
and finally through her experiences as a conductor on the Underground
Railroad.
Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing
in Northern Virginia:
Single
$1,000 / Back-to-Back $1,225
Pricing
outside Northern Virginia:
Single
$1,050 / Back-to-Back $1,275
Children's
Theatre of Hampton Roads
and The No Shame Players
Jamestown : The First Chapter
This theatre production documenting the early days of Jamestown
will enlighten your students to the difficulties, hardships and
goals of settling at Jamestown. Join two friends as they leave their
homes and families for a better life in Jamestown, only to discover
their better life is full of hard work and disappointment. This
program will explore the challenges of communicating with the locals,
surviving in an unknown world, and building a future. Four actors
will be your guide on this journey to Jamestown. Note: This
Production is presented by two theatre companies: Children's Theatre
of Hampton Roads and The No Shame Players.
Grades: K-5, 6-8
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $850 / Back-to-Back $1,250
She,
Called Moses
Children's
Theatre of Hampton Roads
“I never lost a soul on my train” said Harriet Tubman. This retelling
of Harriet's life and the underground railroad offers a unique 1st
person perspective of the trials, injustice and pains of slavery.
This two person show tells more about her service as a spy in the
war, while still giving perspective on her life and the world she
helped to change.
Grades: K-5, 6-8
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing:
Single $850 / Back-to-Back $1,250
Simon
Botch Settles Jamestown
Steve
Kohrherr
Simon Botch is a 4th grade student in need of some help. His teacher
is allowing students to create history projects for extra credit
and Simon could really use it. Join Simon as he creates a Virginia
history project collecting recordings, drawings and stories from
Virginia's past. Your students will learn with Simon as he explores
the rich history of our great state.
Grades: K-5
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing:
Single $450 / Back-to-Back $625
A
House Divided: Civil War Voices
Steve
Kohrherr
This interactive performance by Steve Kohrherr uses theatre and
music to explore the national and personal conflicts which brought
about the American Civil War. This program reaches students though
stories, letters, music and historical characters. The audience
follows the lives of two brothers who chose different sides of the
battlefield. Their story is our story in this war between the states.
Grades: K-5
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Pricing: Single $450 / Back-to-Back $625
Colonial
Daze
Harold
Wood
Explore the thirteen colonies through a magical journey that reinforces
the importance of learning about history. Unique props and costumes
create a backdrop that enables students to visually understand the
geographical relationships among the colonies. The magic of Harold
Wood also helps students learn about important individuals who contributed
to the making of Virginia.
Grades: K-5, 6
Audience
Size: 200 Max.
Price:
Single $475 / Back-to-Back $695
Puppetry
From
the Sea to the Sky
Rainbow
Puppets
400 years of American history come to life from the story of Jamestown
to NASA's exploits in space. Told with original songs, the program
is narrated by Tuskegee Airman Ezra Hill and Grammy winner Bruce
Hornsby. The stories and tragedies of our Virginia past are brought
to life in this program that uses music, movement and all the arts
to tell our story through Rainbow Puppets.
Grades: K-5, 6
Audience
Size: 350 Max.
Pricing
In Hampton Roads:
Single
$595 / Back-to-Back $995
Pricing
Outside Hampton Roads:
Single$795
/ Back-to-Back $1,200
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