Shadow Play
Image from Ashton Group Youth Theatre, Barrow-in-Furness
For Community & Education
DNA offers shadow workshops making puppets and scenery suitable
for each Key Stage in schools as well as for youth groups and special
needs groups. Lots of hands on participation, making and performing,
as well as percussion instruments and sound. This allows the group
to create detailed scenes with puppets and body shadows. The technique
works well for role-playing historical scenes, for imaginative play,
dream sequences and journeys
Benefits of shadow puppetry
- Builds self-confidence and self-esteem
- Achievable skill building process
- Positive perfomance experience
- Develops language and communication skills
Themes
Journeys (Year 2/3)
Fantastic travel can be into space, under water, flying
in the sky, through the jungle on a dinosaur, in the circus or whatever
can be imagined! Dreamlike adventures from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Combining creativity and imagination with design and technology,
literacy, art and drama.
Creation Myths (Year 3/4)
Working with multicultural tales from around the world, shadows
are ideal for portraying deities, monsters, magical beings and the
Elements - earth, fire, water and air. Incredible transformations
can be acheived. Combining history and sociology with art, drama,
design and technology and literacy.
Classic Tales (Years 5/6) and (Years 7-9)
Storytelling the visual way, using shadow techniques to
bring poems or texts alive e.g. Pinnochio or The Tempest. Small
groups work in teams to form mini-theatre companies and devise dramatic
scenes on an animated storyboard projected onto a screen.
Animated Issues (Years 5 - 9)
Using shadows to explore difficult emotional issues using role-play,
masks, puppets and scenery
Bullying
Fear /Abandonment
Sex & Relationship Issues
Asylum Seekers Issues
Genetics and Future Technology
Droylesden Academy, Manchester
Booking Details | Ages | Suitable for early years to further education | | Running time |
Minimum session 3 hours (morning or afternoon) up to a residency
for one week. |
| Suitable venues | Nurseries, schools, colleges, arts centres | | Availability | All year round |
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