Animals Adapt
Folk tales and fractured fairy tales introduce students to specific animals. During the session, interesting facts are presented about those animals and how they adapt to their environment. Students work the puppets for the stories and music.
Grades: K-5
Single Performance: $175
Back-to-Back Performances: $250
Audience Limit: 200
Cinderella Meets the Muppets: Telling Fractured Fairy Tales with Puppets
Helping students develop their writing and creativity skills becomes magical when they rewrite fairy tales with puppets. In this residency students will compare and contrast as they fracture existing fairy tales and create puppets to extend and enrich their writing experience. With 30 years of teaching experience and 10 years as a professional storyteller and puppeteer, Dru Woods brings enthusiasm, excitement, and energy to this engaging workshop that combines writing and puppetry.
Grades: 2 & 3
Workshop Length: :60 minutes per day for 2 days
Participant Limit: 25 per class
Workshop Cost: $125 per hour
Maximum Classes per day: 6
Supply Fee: $1 per student
It’s a Small World
Stories from a variety of cultures are featured in this engaging presentation. Each culture’s story is introduced with music from that culture. The stories and the cultures that they represent include: “One Wish”, Ireland; “Sweet and Sour Berries”, China;”The Story of Anneko”, Senegal; “How Rabbit Lost His Tail”, Haiti; “Dog Tails”, Iroquois; “Martina the Beautiful Cockroach”, Cuba; “How the Kangaroo Got It’s Pouch”, Australia; and “The Peddler”, America.
Grades: K-5
Single Performance: $175
Back-to-Back Performances: $250
Audience Limit: 200
Say BAH to Bullies
Say “BAH” to bullying and learn suggestions for handling bullies and making wise choices. Stories, puppets, and music in which the students are integrally involved, make this a fun and educational experience.
Grades: K-2
Single Performance: $175
Back-to-Back Performances: $250
Audience Limit: 200
Stories You Wish You Knew
This enthusiastic performance presents stories of true happenings and people from history that are not the stories popularized in history books. Included are a story of a rather famous female stagecoach driver who posed as a man, a Texas man who was scalped but lived, several stories about the truth behind multiple inventions, and the truth about events such as hot “The Star Spangled Banner” was written.
Grades: 4-8
Single Performance: $175
Back-to-Back Performances: $250
Audience Limit: 200
Texas Tales
This program includes two Aesop’s Fables “Texas Style”! Students will hear two of Aesop’s Fables with a Texas style twist, as well as a Texas tall tale, legend, and fractured fairy tale. Through these stories students will learn about the Texas state flower, tree, and other important things about our great state!
Grades: K-5
Single Performance: $175
Back-to-Back Performances: $250
Audience Limit: 200
Mime and Masks
Explore the ancient art of mime through this engaging two-day residency led by storyteller and educator Dru Woods. As students are introduced to the silent world of mime, they will discover the challenge and fun of portraying a character, expressing an emotion, or telling a story by using physical movements alone. On the first day of the residency, Mrs. Woods will lead students through the history and use of mime in theater and will teach them the basic techniques of dramatic physical expression. The students will then create their own masks to be used in a mime performance. On the second day, the students will compose an original mime skit and perform it for their classmates!
Grades: 6-8
Workshop Length: :60 minutes per day for 2 days
Participant Limit: 25 per class
Workshop Cost: $125 per hour
Maximum Classes per day: 6
Supply Fee: $1 per student
