Presentation Companies and Field Trips For Next Year

Here are some companies who offer great programs, performances and field trips for your school:

Three Left Feet

  • Dance residencies for all levels with a culminating school-wide celebration
  • School performance: "Elephant & Coyote" 
    • May 30 - June 24, 2016
    • Characters found (and not found!) on the Alberta Prairies


Story Theatre Co.
  • School Performances:
    • Fables, Fools and Fantasy - interactive drama and literacy using traditional stories
    • Anansi's Gift of Stories - Africa and Jamaican storytelling games
  • Classroom Workshop: Flash Literacy Workshop - how to play storytelling games
  • Prices range from $650-$895
Click here for Story Theatre Co. 


Ruploops
  • School Performances: Ruploops: A Musical Orbit 
    • A live looping show using vocal percussion, rhythm rhymes and electric instruments
  • Classroom workshop: Raise Your V.O.I.C.E. Beat Boxing
  • Prices range from $650-$895


Decidedly Jazz Dance Works
  • School Performance: The Great Jazz History Mystery
    • Showing the vast history of jazz, but also broad themes of problem-solving, perseverance, creative thinking and physical expression
  • Price ranges from $700 and up
403.245.3533 (Carly)


HOJA
  • School Presentations:
    • Standard Presentation - Shoot for Your Dreams
    • No-Bullying Presentation
    • Evening Parent Night
  • Prices range from $650-$895
Click here for HOJA


 Perfect Cadence
  • A quartet of woodwinds who will show an introduction to the scientific method and sound waves
  • School Presentation: The Science of Music
403.608.8215 (Ilana)
ilana515@shaw.ca


Calgary Opera

  • Excellent study guides for students and teachers!
  • School Performance: The Magic Flute
403.802.3404 (Emily)
eforrest@calgaryopera.com
Click here for Theatre Calgary


School of Creative and Performing Arts

  • Take a look if you would like to attend and open rehearsal, speak with one of their choreographers, explore the backstage world of sets and costumes or connect with students and instructors
scpa@ugalgary.ca


Alberta Ballet

  • School Performance: Emerging Artists in Your School
    • This program provides your entire school with an amazing opportunity to learn about the magic of ballet in your own school
  • Field Trip: Emerging Artists in OUR Studio
    • This is a chance for smaller groups of students to be up close and behind the scenes with Alberta Ballet dancers!
  • Prices start at $300
403.245.4222 (Katherine)
KatherineR@albertaballet.com


National Music Centre
  • In-School Programs:
    • Celebrating the Acadians 
    • While My Guitar Gently Speaks - play guitars
    • Superheroes of Sound - school-wide theatrical performance
    • Sound Sampling - create your own electronic music compositions
    • Air Powered - build your own air-powered instrument
    • Build Your Own Theremin - an electronic instrument you playing without touching


Drumming for Youth
  • An inspirational hands-on drum circle experience
403.253.2023 (Judy)
judy@circlesofrhythm.com

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