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Individual
Artists
Open Art
handles the arrangements with the individual artists who come to
your school. Open Art director Judith Toy personally offers residences
in either poetry or puppetry. Please visit Puppetry
of Judith Toy for a look at Toy’s puppets.
When Ms.
Toy is invited to your school for a residency in puppetry, she will
need a high-ceilinged room in which to meet with her core students
and build the giant puppets. She will provide the school with a
list of recyclable items which can be brought in by students, or
by her.
Ms. Toy
will be on-site for three weeks, mornings only. She will visit two
classrooms per day, during a three-week residency, suggesting puppet
projects that each class can undertake with their teachers.
The core
group will write a puppet play, build the puppets and perform the
play. Her residency will culminate in an assembly performance which
will be performed by the core group and two "buddy" classes in the
school. The community will be invited and photos will go to the
local papers. (Great photo opp!)
One of these
classes will be designated as the voice chorus and will be provided
with a script to follow (no memorization). One classroom will be
designated as the orchestra, and will make "instruments" from junk.
We will need two rehearsal periods of one and a half hours,with
all performers (core group plus the orchestra and the voice chorus).
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