2013-2014 NC Student Matinee Brochure

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EDUCATORS Welcome to the 2013-2014 Norton Center Student Matinee Series. We want to provide clear information about our K-12 student resources and how educators can best take advantage of these offerings.

What has been selected for this season’s student matinee programs?

Programs this season include a cross-section of visual art, dance, music and theatre to reach students of all ages in order to provide meaningful arts experiences for young audiences. While educators are encouraged to carefully read about each program in this brochure, here’s a snapshot of some of the connections you can make in your classroom: Charles Ross’ One Man Lord of the Rings • English, Theatre & Film Studies Balé Folclórico Da Bahia • Social Studies, Music & Dance

Doktor Kaboom! • Science & Theatre Beyond Glory starring Stephen Lang • U.S. History, English & Theatre The Intergalactic Nemesis • English, Visual Art, Music & Theatre Bobby McFerrin • Social Studies, Music Education

How do these programs help educators meet curriculum goals?

The Norton Center provides a list of Kentucky State and National Standards that can be applied to each performance or program, thus ensuring a worthwhile out-of-the-classroom experience for all.

Are there activities the Norton Center can provide to help educators make classroom connections?

Our curriculum connections provide educator-developed lesson plans which will help to extend the learning into the classroom before and after each event. Often, there are additional educational resources provided by the artists themselves that will also be made available to educators. The Norton Center Engagement Coordinator can also assist with ideas and planning in conjunction with the matinee programs.

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Where can these resources be found?

By visiting the NortonCenter.com website, educators can find an Education link for Learning Opportunities and K-12 Activities. Located within these pages are the matinee programs, corresponding to state and national standard-based lesson plans, and other information. The website also provides information, videos and press reviews about artists on individual performance pages under the 2013-14 Season link.

How can educators be kept informed throughout the year?

The Norton Center offers a special resource that is free for all educators. Sign up to receive emails and exclusive educator information by filling out the Keep Informed form on our website and selecting the box Children / All Ages / Educational Shows or by calling the box office. This form is located at NortonCenter.com/signup.

Thank you for trusting the Norton Center to provide high quality professional programming to engage, entertain and educate our region’s youth while meeting your specific educational needs.

We look forward to sharing another season of professional performances for young audiences with you!

Thanks,

Steve Hoffman

Dustin Mosko

Brittany Duvall

Executive Director

Engagement Coordinator

Box Office Assistant

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DOES YOUR SCHOOL QUALIFY FOR FREE TICKETS AND/OR A BUS SUBSIDY?

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Eligible schools can apply for FREE or deeply reduced student matinee tickets through the Kentucky schools can apply for a FREE Norton Center A.C.T.S. Program. transportation subsidy to attend Norton Center student Currently, this program is only available to educators matinees through the Kentucky Arts Council in Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln and Mercer County TranspARTation Grant Program. This grant provides KY Public Schools, including Burgin and Danville students with quality arts experiences by providing transportation Independent Schools. funding to individual classrooms that apply. Grants are based on the For more information on Norton Center A.C.T.S. mileage from the school to the performance venue and the number or to apply contact of buses necessary. Applications are reviewed quarterly.

Brittany Duvall at 859-238-5759 or For help in applying for a TranspARTation Grant so that your school can Brittany.Duvall@centre.edu receive money to pay for transportation costs when attending a Norton Center performance, contact us at 859-238-5759 or the Kentucky Arts Council at artscouncil.ky.gov/Grants/TranspARTation.htm

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For information on tickets, Norton Center A.C.T.S., or the Kentucky Arts Council TranspARTation Grant Program please contact:

For more information on Curriculum Connections or Artist-Led Professional Development please contact:

Brittany Duvall

Dustin Mosko

Box Office Assistant P: 859-238-5759 E: Brittany.Duvall@centre.edu

Engagement Coordinator P: 859-238-5422 E: Dustin.Mosko@centre.edu

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CURRICULUM

CONNECTIONS ...........................

Because we understand the value of instructional time and can appreciate the difficulty and expense of organizing field trips, we continually strive to ensure that our matinee series will be utilized as an educational tool for our schools. Most importantly, we create Curriculum Connections related to these shows and make them available online at www.nortoncenter.com/education at the beginning of each season.

These state and national standard based lesson plans are streamlined to provide supplemental information and activities that will enhance each of the visiting artists in our series. Developed to stimulate learning in all areas of the curriculum through the arts, the activities involve students in high level thinking skills, accommodate different learning styles and help draw conclusions across the curriculum.

To access the curriculum connections study guides for each performance in this brochure, visit us online at:

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CHARLES ROSS’

ONE MAN LORD TM OF THE RINGS Middle-earth

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SEPTEMBER 6

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Last season Charles Ross performed his One Man Star Wars show to a sold out matinee audience who cheered at the prospect of his return with a performance based on his other favorite fantasy series: One Man Lord of the Rings™. This season, Ross will hurtle his way through the entire Tolkien trilogy recreating the magical world of Middle-earth and all its enchanting characters. In this inspired performance, he manages to complete Frodo’s epic journey from the Shire to the fire–armed with nothing more than a pair of elbow pads and his outrageous imagination. With riveting stage fights, harrowing rescues, and brilliant vocal sound effects, he captures every character in a show that will leave students inspired to model Ross’ mastery of the performance elements of drama in order to create their very own one man show.

GRADE RECOMMENDATION: Middle & High School

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CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: Film Studies, English & Theatre

BALÉ FOLCLÓRICO DA BAHIA Bahia, Brazil

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OCTOBER 30

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10:00AM

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Balé Folclórico Da Bahia transforms traditional Brazilian, African and Latin cultures into “a spectacular display of color, movement, music and drama” (Chicago Sun-Times). With explosive drumming and frenzied dancing in authentic costumes, the most popular folk dance company in Brazil performs a mix of choreography from African and South American traditions, to include authentic dances like the Puxada de Rede, Maculelé, Samba De Roda and the martial art form Capoeira. Educators have the opportunity to lead students through a cultural portal to experience this electrifying and vibrant performance.

GRADE RECOMMENDATION:

This performance is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council

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Elementary, Middle & High School

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: Dance, Music & Social Studies

DOKTOR KABOOM! The Lab of a Mad Scientist

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NOVEMBER 8

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Doktor Kaboom! performs an original interactive Science Comedy show that creatively integrates theatre arts with the wonders of scientific exploration. Doktor Kaboom! keeps crowds riveted with interest and rolling with laughter while providing an amazing educational tour of the modern scientific method, using humor and comedy while demonstrating spectacular applications of the physical sciences. Join Kaboom! for a sidesplitting journey of increasingly spectacular science experiments and demonstrations designed to involve, excite, educate, and entertain.

Doktor Kaboom! brings his passions together with an explosive style that refuses to allow audiences time to catch a breath and always leaves them cheering for more!

GRADE RECOMMENDATION: Elementary & Middle School

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CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: Science & Theatre

BEYOND GLORY starring STEPHEN

LANG The United States of America

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NOVEMBER 18

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In this enthralling one-man show based on the non-fiction book of the same title, famed stage and film actor Stephen Lang (Colonel Miles Quaritch in the blockbuster film, Avatar) enters the personas of several real American soldiers and sailors who fought in WWII, and the Korea and Vietnam Wars, rendering firsthand accounts of the actions which resulted in each of them being awarded the nation’s highest military accolade: the Congressional Medal of Honor. Between the nightly news, United States foreign affairs, and every day history lessons, our next generation is no stranger to the word hero, but do they truly understand the ultimate sacrifice our military members choose to make in the service of their country? Beyond

Glory is not simply a play: it is a journey through pivotal moments of the American story. *May contain mature subject matter.

For this performance, the Norton Center for the Arts in partnership with the Boyle County Public Library has been awarded an Arts Access Assistance Grant through a program of the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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GRADE RECOMMENDATION: High School

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: U.S. History, English & Theatre

THE INTERGALACTIC

NEMESIS

BOOK ONE: TARGET EARTH A LIVE-ACTION GRAPHIC NOVEL

Planet Zygonia

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FEBRUARY 7

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The Intergalactic Nemesis is a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience that mashes up radio drama with a graphic novel. Three actors voice dozens of characters; one Foley artist creates hundreds of sound effects; one keyboardist performs a score of thousands (yes, thousands!) of notes; while on a two-story high screen they project more than 1,250 individual, full-color, hand-drawn, hi-res, blow-your-mind comic book images to tell the story* visually: LIVE! Inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, and the pulp serials of the 1930s, The Intergalactic Nemesis is a spectacle unlike any other and for the kid in everyone. *See also the corresponding professional development session for educators: Visual Art in the English Curriculum on page 10.

For this performance, the Norton Center for the Arts in partnership with the Boyle County Public Library has been awarded an Arts Access Assistance Grant through a program of the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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GRADE RECOMMENDATION: Elementary, Middle & High School

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: English, Visual Art, Theatre & Music

BOBBY MCFERRIN spirityouall

Philadelphia

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APRIL 18

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Ten-time Grammy® Award winner Bobby McFerrin is one of the world's best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned classical conductor and a passionate spokesman for music education. His recordings have sold more than 20 million and established him as an ambassador of both the classical and jazz worlds. Although McFerrin will always be known as the guy who sang

Don’t Worry, Be Happy, his latest project, “spirityou all,” which was influenced by the spirituals his father sang, will encourage young audiences to participate while exploring cross genre music that has greatly impacted our nation’s culture. At Bobby’s concerts, audiences witness the rarest of qualities, something almost never found anymore in contemporary art: real-time invention. His wholly improvisational approach to singing provides deep nourishment, something of sustaining value. He engages his audience, making them a part of the creative process, taking them on an expedition.

GRADE RECOMMENDATION: Elementary, Middle & High School

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CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: Music & Social Studies

ARTIST-LED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS The Norton Center for the Arts is proud to take the next step in our mission to provide our partners in education with the tools they need to fully integrate the arts into any classroom. In these full participation half-day sessions enrolled teachers will receive hands on specialized training by juried Kentucky Arts Council Teaching Artists and will return to school with a Professional Development Certificate of Completion as well as applicable resources and ideas for future collaboration with arts integration techniques.

Visual Art in the English Curriculum with Carrie Neumayer Thursday, February 6, 2014 5:00 – 8:00 PM, Norton Center for the Arts Sequential art and cartooning are wonderful ways to combine visual art with literacy in the classroom.

Learn how to inspire your students to write, draw, and use their imaginations by creating stories in comic book format. In this workshop, teachers of students of all ages will explore a variety of comic art and then take part in activities concentrating on character development, theme, narrative, and drawing style.

Lesson plans and many additional classroom resources to use across the curriculum will be provided.

Carrie Neumayer is an artist, illustrator and musician with extensive teaching experience and a great enthusiasm for working with students of all ages. She studied painting, printmaking and illustration at the Kansas City Art Institute and received her Bachelor of Fine Art with a concentration in painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching in Art Education from the University of Louisville and has eight years of experience teaching diverse student populations in Jefferson County Public Schools. Carrie’s paintings have been exhibited at Cinderblock Gallery, Kin Ship Gallery, Spalding University’s Huff Gallery, Carnegie Center for Art and other galleries in the Louisville area. Carrie’s illustration work has been published in Louisville Magazine, The Louisville Paper and LEO Weekly. She is a member of the Louisville Cartoonist Society and has published 11 autobiographical comic books.

This session will have a maximum capacity of 20 and pre-registration is required. Session Fee: $40

To register or for more information contact:

Dustin Mosko (Engagement Coordinator) P: 859-238-5422 E: Dustin.Mosko@centre.edu

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TICKET ORDER FORM Teacher’s Name:_____________________________________________________________ School: __________________________________________________Grade:_____________ Address: ___________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________________State: ________Zip: _____________ School Phone: _______________________ Email: _________________________________

o CHARLES ROSS’

ONE MAN LORD OF THE RINGS TM

# Paying Students

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 • 10:00 AM 60 minutes

# Paying Adults

# Free Adults

(1 free per 10 students) ____________ _________@ $20.00 each

o BALÉ FOLCLÓRICO DA BAHIA

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Special request for accessible accommodations

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OCTOBER 30, 2013 • 10:00 AM 60 minutes

# Paying Students _________@ $8.00 each

# Free Adults

# Paying Adults

(1 free per 10 students) ____________ _________@ $20.00 each

o DOKTOR KABOOM!

Total Amount

$_______________

Special request for accessible accommodations

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013 • 10:00 AM 60 minutes

# Paying Students _________@ $8.00 each

# Free Adults

# Paying Adults

(1 free per 10 students) ____________ _________@ $20.00 each

o BEYOND GLORY

Total Amount

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Special request for accessible accommodations

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013 • 10:00 AM 70 minutes

# Paying Students _________@ $8.00 each

# Free Adults

# Paying Adults

(1 free per 10 students) ____________ _________@ $20.00 each

o THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS

Total Amount

$_______________

Special request for accessible accommodations

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014 • 10:00 AM 60 minutes

# Paying Students _________@ $8.00 each

# Free Adults

# Paying Adults

(1 free per 10 students) ____________ _________@ $20.00 each

o BOBBY MCFERRIN

Total Amount

$_______________

Special request for accessible accommodations

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APRIL 18, 2014 • 10:00 AM 60 minutes

# Paying Students _________@ $8.00 each

# Free Adults

# Paying Adults

(1 free per 10 students) ____________ _________@ $20.00 each

Total Amount

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Special request for accessible accommodations

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2.50 Handling fee on total order $ ______________ ORDER TOTAL $ ________________ Payment Method: o Check o School Purchase Order Number Mail order with payment to: P. Brittany Duvall F.

859-238-5759 859-238-5448

Norton Center for the Arts E. Brittany.Duvall@centre.edu 600 West Walnut Street Danville, Kentucky 40422 PLEASE NOTE: No tickets will be reserved until payment Authorized Signature __________________________________________________ or a purchase order is received. All orders are final.

No refunds except in cases where the Norton Center cancels a performance or a school day is cancelled due to inclement weather. All times are approximate.

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TIPS

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HOW TO RESERVE AND PAY FOR TICKETS • A payment or a purchase order is required to reserve your seats for the program.

• Payment by check, cash or credit card must be received at least two weeks before the performance date.

• Please note that there are no exchanges or refunds except in the case of a school closing for inclement weather OR if the Norton Center cancels the event.

• The seats requested are blocked off for that corresponding school and therefore cannot be sold to others. The school is then responsible for ALL seats reserved within that block, even if ALL students/ chaperones do not attend.

• When registering for an event, please let us know if any special needs seating is required.

PARKING • After unloading students, bus drivers should park at Millennium Park, just a mile away from the Norton Center.

• Please contact the box office directly if your group will not be arriving by bus.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARRIVE • Performances start promptly at their scheduled times. Please try to arrive at least fifteen to thirty minutes prior to the performance.

• A representative from the school should stop by the registration table to check in and receive further instructions.

• After your group is assembled in the lobby, please wait for the ushers to escort you and your group to your assigned seats. Ushers are also available to direct you to the restrooms and any other necessary location.

DRESS CODE • We encourage students to dress respectfully and appropriately when attending Norton Center performances.

DINING OPTIONS • The Centre College dining facility offers an all-you-can-eat buffet of a salad bar, grilled items, a deli, pizza, home-styledishes, and a dessert bar including soft-serve ice cream. Reservations must be made in advance by calling SODEXO at 859-236-2744.

EXTENDING YOUR EXPERIENCE AT THE NORTON CENTER • Just ask! We can assist with special requests, provide campus tours, meal arrangements, and even connect educators with other local arts organizations (including the Danville Community Arts Center and the Dollhouse Museum).

For more information, including Tips for Students, a list of Theatre and Music Vocabulary Terms, plus Curriculum Connections and lesson plans for each of our performances, please visit:

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A GUIDE TO

THEATRE ETIQUETTE

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Please keep the following in mind when you come to the theatre and go over these rules with your students: Please ensure that all cell phones are turned off. We expect all students to behave appropriately without causing any disturbance to others around them. We want to ensure that everyone can enjoy the performance. Anyone causing a disturbance will be asked to leave the theater.

Please arrive at the theater 15-30 minutes before the start of the performance, allowing enough time for trips to the restroom. Latecomers disturb the other students and teachers around them and will be seated during a suitable break in the program at the usher’s discretion.

Please remain in your seats during the performance – use the restroom before the show.

No food or drink is allowed in the theatre at any time.

The Norton Center staff members work hard to keep the theatre clean and in good condition for all patrons. Please do not put your feet on the seats and be sure to keep your personal belongings stored underneath your own seat during a performance.

Please be quiet during the performance, but feel free to laugh, applaud and show your appreciation for the performer’s hard work on stage when appropriate during the show.

Please remain in your seat until the curtain call is over and the house lights have come up.

Please observe the rules of common courtesy: act responsibly in the restroom lines and Norton Center lobby, and respect the theatre-going experience of everyone around you.

No cameras or recording devices of any kind are permitted. Pictures and recordings are prohibited by union regulations and copyright laws.

Most importantly, enjoy the show!