Young audiences can join Karen as she explores the world of theatre through early childhood themes. Ages 2+

Young audiences can join Karen as she explores the world of theatre through early childhood themes. Ages 2+

Young audiences can join Karen as she explores the world of theatre through early childhood themes. Ages 2+

Young audiences can join Karen as she explores the world of theatre through early childhood themes. Ages 2+

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You already sing along to your favorite musical, why not dance along too? Learn the box step, grape vine, pony, and more with CCT apprentice Maya Pierce!

Share your moves with us! Take a picture or video and send it to Dexter Ellis, Director of Education and Community Programs at: dexter@chicagochildrenstheatre.org.
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Discover the infectious rhythms of go-go, the official music of Washington, D.C., with New Victory Teaching Artist and D.C. native Olney Edmondson.

Then explore the D.C. stomping grounds of Step Afrika!’s Ronnique Murray in the first part of New Victory Arts Break: North America: https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-north-america-discover/

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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

Form an opera club with help from a friend and make a mini opera about things you love! Follow along as New Victory Teaching Artists Christina Eskridge and Signe Harriday invent an opera club of their own. Aria ready?

Then, take inspiration from Isango Ensemble and learn how to warm up your voices and retell your favorite stories through song in the third part of New Victory Arts Break: Africa:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-africa-play/
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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

Find beats with your body and tune in to the timbres, tones and rhythms of the djembe drum with New Victory Teaching Artist Signe Harriday.

Then explore the instruments that Isango Ensemble uses to create their distinctive South African sound in the second part of New Victory Arts Break: Africa:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-africa-create/

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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

From dustbin drums to bespoke marimbas, revel in the rhythms and South African sounds of Isango Ensemble as they show off their distinctive assortment of instruments.

Create your own rhythms on a homemade drum and play a musical game in the second part of New Victory Arts Break: Africa:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-africa-create/

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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

Grab some sound sticks—no shovels, please!—and join New Victory Teaching Artist Spencer Lott as he discovers the musicality of every room in his home.

In the first part of New Victory Arts Break: Europe, tour London with Ellie from Oily Cart Theater Company and get a feel for life in one of Europe’s largest cities:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-europe-discover/

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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

A costume piece or element can serve as inspiration for developing a character! In this kids acting exercise, join New Victory Teaching Artist Jamie Roach as he explores how to create a theatrical character using a number of costume pieces and outfits he finds around the house. Then, join him on a costume parade!

Find more ways to create with activities from Theater Sets and Costumes Week:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-theater-sets-and-costumes-week/

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New Victory Arts Break: Discover Art Forms
Explore the arts at home! New Victory Arts Break offers ideas for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their online learning. Each week will focus on a different art form with a series of free activities for kids guided by New Victory Teaching Artists. Show or no show, New Victory is committed to bringing the performing arts to the widest possible audience, and inspiring you to make art, and make memories, together!

Ta-ta-ti-ti-ta! Learn the basics of music notes and rhythm reading as Nicole from New Victory Education teaches you about quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets and sixteenth notes and then sets a beat to a simple lyric.

Explore more melodious activities from Songwriting Week:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-songwriting-week/

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New Victory Arts Break: Discover Art Forms
Explore the arts at home! New Victory Arts Break offers ideas for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their online learning. Each week will focus on a different art form with a series of free activities for kids guided by New Victory Teaching Artists. Show or no show, New Victory is committed to bringing the performing arts to the widest possible audience, and inspiring you to make art, and make memories, together!

To really connect with your audience, your singing needs one thing above all else—emotion! Follow along with New Victory Teaching Artist Janet Onyenucheya as she demonstrates how to sing like a true ac-tor.

Turn a familiar tune into your own song—just add lyrics! Join New Victory Teaching Artist Julia Sirna-Frest as she demonstrates how to write your own song with a little ditty about her lovable dog, Bronco, using a tune you may have heard before.

Explore more melodious activities from Songwriting Week:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-songwriting-week/

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New Victory Arts Break: Discover Art Forms
Explore the arts at home! New Victory Arts Break offers ideas for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their online learning. Each week will focus on a different art form with a series of free activities for kids guided by New Victory Teaching Artists. Show or no show, New Victory is committed to bringing the performing arts to the widest possible audience, and inspiring you to make art, and make memories, together!

Get ready to warm up your voice with some easy breathing and vocal exercises, including a fun tongue-twister! Join New Victory Education's Mia Sommese in this easy vocal warm up that's perfect for kids.

Explore more melodious activities from Songwriting Weekk:
https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-songwriting-week/

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New Victory Arts Break: Discover Art Forms
Explore the arts at home! New Victory Arts Break offers ideas for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their online learning. Each week will focus on a different art form with a series of free activities for kids guided by New Victory Teaching Artists. Show or no show, New Victory is committed to bringing the performing arts to the widest possible audience, and inspiring you to make art, and make memories, together!

Here’s New Victory Teaching Artist Peter Mustante with a body percussion activity you can do at home, no drums required!

We’ll be setting you some bonkers and brilliant creative challenges over the next few weeks. Here's Dom Coyote with his challenge. Flex your songwriting skills and share your songs using the hashtag #KneehighWindows

The Windows to the World project is part of Kneehigh's Coastal Communities Programme
Produced by Gabby Vautier and Kyla Goodey
Edited by Brett Harvey
Title music by Dom Coyote and Alex Lupo
Technical Support by Ciaran Clarke
Supported by the Kneehigh Team

Kneehigh's Coastal Communities Programme is supported by The Coastal Communities Fund, and generous donations from Kneehigh Friends and Family.
Kneehigh is supported by Arts Council England and Cornwall Council.

https://www.kneehigh.co.uk/cornwall/

Grace Savage, 4 times UK Champion Beatboxer is here to teach you How to Beatbox at Home. In Part 2: Basic Sounds, Grace shows us how to make the basic BeatBoxing sounds!

Even though Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories can’t perform Big Up at theatres all over the UK this spring, they're bringing you Big Up At Home! Big Up At Home is perfect for little people who want to be Big and Big people who might just have forgotten how to play.

Check out other videos on our Big Up at Home Playlist where you’ll find clips from the show and some fabulous at home activities created by the Big Up team. Expect lots of content including beatboxing, puppetry and music that you can create at home.

Why not send us a photo or a video of how you can beatbox at home using our hashtag #BigUpatHome and don't forget to tag us!

@Theatre-Rites
@20StoriesHigh
info@theatre-rites.co.uk

Grace Savage, 4 times UK Champion Beatboxer is here to teach you How to Beatbox at Home. In Part 1: Warming Up, Grace offers a step by step warm up to get the facial muscles moving ready to start beatboxing!

Even though Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories can’t perform Big Up at theatres all over the UK this spring, they're bringing you Big Up At Home! Big Up At Home is perfect for little people who want to be Big and Big people who might just have forgotten how to play.

Check out other videos on our Big Up at Home Playlist where you’ll find clips from the show and some fabulous at home activities created by the Big Up team. Expect lots of content including beatboxing, puppetry and music that you can create at home.

Why not send us a photo or a video of how you can beatbox at home using our hashtag #BigUpatHome and don't forget to tag us!

@Theatre-Rites
@20StoriesHigh
info@theatre-rites.co.uk

Grace Savage, 4 times UK Champion Beatboxer is here to teach you How to Make a Drum Kit at Home. Utilising what she can find in her house, Grace shows us that you can make a drum beat out of anything!

Even though Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories can’t perform Big Up at theatres all over the UK this spring, they're bringing you Big Up At Home! Big Up At Home is perfect for little people who want to be Big and Big people who might just have forgotten how to play.

Check out other videos on our Big Up at Home Playlist where you’ll find clips from the show and some fabulous at home activities created by the Big Up team. Expect lots of content including beatboxing, puppetry and music that you can create at home.

Why not send us a photo or a video of what you've created using our hashtag #BigUpatHome and don't forget to tag us!

@Theatre-Rites
@20StoriesHigh
info@theatre-rites.co.uk

When toddlers throw a tantrum, the best response is to rap, right? This is exactly what Dorcas Sebuyange, Big Up Singer and Songwriter does to Little'Un in the Big Up show! Here she wants to sing it for all of you at home...

Watch the clip from the show here: https://youtu.be/nbVaPUP9rr4

Even though Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories can’t perform Big Up at theatres all over the UK this spring, they're bringing you Big Up At Home! Big Up At Home is perfect for little people who want to be Big and Big people who might just have forgotten how to play.

Check out other videos on our Big Up at Home Playlist where you’ll find clips from the show and some fabulous at home activities created by the Big Up team. Expect lots of content including beatboxing, puppetry and music that you can create at home.

Why not send us a photo or a video of what you've created using our hashtag #BigUpatHome and don't forget to tag us!

@Theatre-Rites
@20StoriesHigh
info@theatre-rites.co.uk

Musical fun with ‘Stickman' - sing, dance and jam along. Bring a teddy, a cup, a sponge and a ball and get ready to tell a story on cushion mountain…

Send us a comment and share pics and videos of you dancing and playing along at www.facebook.com/SparkArtsFestival/

Stickman leaps out of the library and into your homes and classrooms. Bringing some of the amazing experiences you might have previously enjoyed in our family, schools and nursery sessions.

Rhythm Play Express - Sounds, music, words and movement to feed the imagination. Develop new language and learn new words.

Click the bell in the top right to get notifications of new Spark at Home videos.

A bizzy buzzy creepy crawly creative play class for ages 2-8 years combininb songs, drama and movement activities.

What do dinosaurs love to eat?
And what might they think is disgusting?

Get your child joining in by suggesting ideas as you sing along.

When a dinosaur's feeling hungry
He looks for food.
He looks in the forest
When he's in a hungry mood.
When he looks in the forest
He find lots and lots of mice/chicken/beef/pizza
When he looks in the forest
He finds lots and lots of broccoli/mud/cabbage

An he goes mmmmm - mice
And he goes eurgh - broccoli

When a dinosaur's feeling hungry
He looks for food.

More dinosaur games and fun coming soon!

BROADWAY at The Rose Director Sue Gillespie Booton is here with a musical theater combination class! Join in and have some fun learning musical theater in the comfort of your own home.

Sing-a-long with the full song recording of 'A Sailorin We'll Go' from Treasure Island.

Written by Composer and Sound Designer Ivan Stott.

Becky Barry as Darby McGraw
TJ Holmes as Israel Hands
Bonnie Baddoo as Gem

Join in and have a go at signing the chorus of 'A Sailorin We'll Go' by watching our step by step video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlo4M-Oc_Is&t=37s

Join in and have a go! The cast and community company from our BSL integrated production of Treasure Island got back together to sing and sign the chorus of ‘A Sailorin’ We’ll Go’ from the show.

Raffie Julien (who would have played Mrs H) shows us the signs step by step so everyone can join in.

We hope the ship will sail again after the production was cancelled, due to Covid-19, earlier this year.

'A Sailorin We'll Go' is written by Composer and Sound Designer Ivan Stott. Listen to the full song with lyrics here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xagb4IEka3Q

View more content from Treasure Island here: https://bit.ly/2UzRbjv

Let's get moving with Yan Yan and learn how to say body parts and movements in Cantonese.*
小豆釘嘅甄甄帶大家一齊郁身郁勢，學習身體部分同各種動作嘅廣東話點講。*

*Notes to parent: Oh no, Yan Yan messed up with left and right? Maybe it's a chance for you to teach your little one why is it not mirrored and which is left and which is right to them while watching.
*給家長的話﹕哎呀，甄甄將左右掉轉咗？呢個係好機會俾你同小朋友睇片段嘅時候互動一下，講解吓點解我嘅左右邊同你嘅左右邊會相反嘅呢？

*Click the Captions button below the video for subtitles and song lyrics*
Join Christmas For Kids' Maurice in singing Row Row Row Your Boat.

Christmas for Kids (also known as C4K) is a charity which brings interactive theatre shows to children's hospices, free of charge, every year. Our shows are specially written and designed to be multi-sensory, interactive, fun and accessible - comprising singing, storytelling, puppetry and lots of silliness! For more information about how you can support our work, head to: https://www.christmasforkids.org.uk/donations

With thanks to City Bridge Trust.

*Click the Captions button below the video for subtitles and song lyrics*
Join Christmas For Kids' Maurice in singing The Wheels on the Bus!

Christmas for Kids (also known as C4K) is a charity which brings interactive theatre shows to children's hospices, free of charge, every year. Our shows are specially written and designed to be multi-sensory, interactive, fun and accessible - comprising singing, storytelling, puppetry and lots of silliness! For more information about how you can support our work, head to: https://www.christmasforkids.org.uk/donations

With thanks to City Bridge Trust.