Aurora Fox
Educational Theatre Programs
Help your students succeed in school and in life through hands on participation in art, dance, music, history and drama.

-Program Benefits
-provides direct links to history, social studies, literacy, writing & composition & public speaking’
-offers students a variety of mediums to explore the subject: reading, writing, research, discussion, movement & the spoken word
- explores our rich & diverse cultural heritage and
- encourages parental involvement.

Our instructors each has between 10 & 20 years of experience teaching the arts & history to youth in a classroom setting. We invite you to interview & observe our instructors in action & to tour our facilities. Discuss existing curriculum or help us create a new program, specially designed for you and your students.
Our programs are custom designed to fit scheduling needs & to integrate arts & humanities into curriculum standards. Our instructors & program leaders are experienced with children & group dynamics. Programs are also available for the public, for all ages.

Call us today for more information:

Theatre: Lisa Mumpton 303 739-1973 lmumpton@auroragov.org

www.aurorafox.org  

Performances
Aurora Fox Arts Center
See a live performance. Cast & director post show discussion available.
 GRADES: 6-12  MONTHS: September-July  TIME: Fri./Sat./eve. Sun. matinees.
 FEE: $10-$20 per student.
$1 High School previews. Area High Schools are invited to the final dress rehearsal of all Aurora Fox productions. Middle Schools invited upon request. $1 per person.
Field trip, extracurricular activity. Call for show information and times.

Little Foxes Children's Theatre
See a professional children's play performed by children  GRADES: K-5  MONTHS: June – August  FEE: $4.50 -$7 per student. Field trip, extracurricular activity. Call for show information and times.
Story Tellers
African, African American & Native American original & traditional folk tales performed at your school. GRADES: K-5. MONTHS: Year round. FEE: $100 per hour.

Education
Residencies, drama clubs, work shops, tours & demonstrations available. Curriculum tailored to age groups, interests & educational requirements. GRADES: K-12  MONTHS: Year round. FEE: vary, call for details, dates & times. Scholarships & sliding fee scale available.

Workshops, Lectures, Seminars, Demonstrations & Tours
▪ TIME: Workshops are typically 45 minutes to 3 hours & may be presented over a series of days or weeks.▪ FEE: $70-100/hr. Scholarships & sliding fee scale available.
• Afternoon at the Improv
Explore acting, story telling & improvisational techniques. GRADES: 3-12.
• African Folk Tales
Instructor introduces students to an African folk tale & guides them through a performance of their own version of the story using traditional story telling methods. GRADES: K-6.
• Architecture
Discover spatial relationships by moving your body through space creating different shapes & levels. Construct a scene/story using a specific set of guidelines. GRADES: K-8.
• Every Painting Tells a Story
Journey "inside" paintings & use your imaginations to perform/tell what might have happened.
 GRADES: 1-5.
• Fractured Fairy Tales
Students perform a parody of familiar fairy tale. GRADES: 2-5.
• Ghosts from Colorado History
Create and act out a ghost story about characters in a historical photo. GRADES: 3-12.
• Grab Bag
Imagine if your shoes could talk or if cleaning your bedroom was an Olympic event. GRADES: K-5.
• Human Sculpture
Create sculptures with your body incorporating geometry, stage movement & elements of design. GRADES: K-12.
• It’s Greek to Me
Explore classical Greek theatre. Students perform scenes from classic Greek comedies & tragedies in verse. GRADES: 5-12.
• Native American Folk Tales
Explore Native American Culture through music & folktales. GRADES: K-6.
• Playwrighting, Screen Writing and Adaptations
Professional playwright uses dramatic improvisation to guide students in the writing process; from ideas & inspiration to plot, character development & dialogue construction, eventually creating their unique style. GRADES: 5-12.
• Puppet Play
Learn the elements of a story, create characters, make puppets & then create a play. GRADES: K-3.
• Readers Theatre
Make works of literature come alive for your students. Professional actor will guide students in dramatic readings. GRADES: 5-12.
• Shakespeare, Beginnings
Study Shakespeare’s sonnets, soliloquies & scenes. Bring them to life through improvisation & games. Gain a historical perspective into the Elizabethan period. Excellent preparation for the DPS Shakespeare Festival. GRADES: 5-12.
• Stage Combat
Learn Basic stage hand to hand combat. GRADES: 5-12.
• Set Design
• Learn the art & function of set design for the theatre. GRADES: 5-12.
• Stage Makeup
Learn basic elements of stage makeup. Requires materials fee. GRADES: 5-12.
• Story Construction
Construct a scene by learning the elements of a story & acting it out. GRADES: K-12

Residencies
 MONTHS: Year round.  FEE: $45/hr. for groups of up to 30 students. Age range, costs & schedules vary, call for details. LENGTH: 4- 6 or 6-11, 11/2 to 2 hour, weekly or biweekly sessions.
• Famous Characters of the Frontier
Select a character from the American West; research their life; write a monologue from the character's point of view & perform it for family friends & classmates. GRADES: 3-12.
• Get A Clue or Who Dunnit?
Create & perform original mysteries. GRADES: 1-5.
• It’s Greek to Me
Explore classical Greek theatre. Students perform scenes from classic Greek comedies & tragedies in verse. Includes mask making. GRADES: 5-12.
• Mirror, Mirror
Write poems & personal stories. Create self-portraits, an autobiographical collage & a life size body mural. Then create a final performance all about YOU for family & friends. GRADES: K-12.
• Our Family Ourselves
Students explore themselves & their family with personal histories, poetry, visual collages & ancestor candles. GRADES: K-12 or available as a family workshop series.
• Shakespeare, Etc.
Study Shakespeare’s sonnets, soliloquies & scenes. Bring them to life through improvisation & games. Gain a historical perspective into the Elizabethan period. Culminates in performance. Excellent preparation for the DPS Shakespeare Festival. GRADES: 5-12.
• Stage Accents & Dialects
Learn a dialect for school play or just for fun. Standard British, New York City, Standard American Southern & many more. GRADES: 5-12
• Stage Craft
Learn basic stage carpentry, set painting, light, sound & set design from professionals. Field trip to Aurora Fox GRADES: 6-12.
• What Did My Ancestors Look Like?
Create a modern-day Masquerade Egungun, an African ritual held, in which everyone chooses an ancestor to explore. GRADES: 3-5.
• What's In My Family Name?
Students explore their family's name; create & perform a story. GRADES: 3-5.

IMAGINATION MAKERS is a professional, adult theater company founded in April, 1980. The primary focus is to perform original plays with high production standards for children and teens in the Denver-Boulder area.  

            Under the direction of Artistic Director Rosey Waters, new scripts are created that pay attention to the needs, concerns, and influences of modern young people.  The company primarily tours its productions, working to make theater available for all.
 
             The company has developed 24 unique productions.  Some examples include a musical play that dramatized traditional fables as well as kid-written modern interpretations; a play based on true stories of contemporary kids who immigrated to Colorado from other countries; and two student-rewritten versions of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice--one for elementary schools and one for middle and high schools.

            Imagination Makers has toured successfully in Colorado for 24 years, giving over 2,800 performances and reaching over 600,000 kids in numerous venues.  In addition to visiting over 100 schools annually, the company has also performed in locations such as:  The University of Colorado at Denver, the Colorado Council International Reading Association, the Boulder Public Library, and the Denver Children's Museum.  Out of state, the company has toured in New York, Connecticut, and England. Highlights include invitations to perform in London at the Newham International Festival of Theater in Education, and Take Off '89, an international theater festival. Imagination Makers was selected to perform at the 1998 American Alliance of Theatre and Education Conference.

            The actors hired for Imagination Makers are highly trained and experienced professionals.  Their credits range from national touring productions to roles in theaters such as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Arizona Repertory Theater, the Village Theater in Seattle, the Latina Theater Lab in San Francisco, and Circle in the Square in New York City.  Training schools include NYU--Tisch School of the Arts in New York and ACT in San Francisco.  Actors are recipients of such prestigious honors as a Canadian Dora Theater Award nomination and awards from the Denver Drama Critics Circle.

            The company has taught 8 residencies with the Colorado Council on the Arts Artist in Residence Program and has completed 20 additional Drama Residency programs at schools across Colorado. In the last few years, we have designed and conducted residencies that are intensive writing and theater experiences for students. Structured to respond to schools’ literacy goals, each residency involves at least 20 hours of work per classroom. Students write and revise their own stories, learn various theater techniques and then use these techniques to act their stories out.  Residencies culminate with informal performances for their peers. Through these residencies, students not only have a powerful theater experience, but also gain confidence in themselves as writers.
 
            The goals of Imagination Makers are to do powerful theater that is entertaining and thought provoking.  We take shows to as many schools as possible so that young people that might never have the chance, have the opportunity to see a professional production that surprises, delights, and amazes them.
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION contact:
Imagination Makers Theater Company
2590 Walnut Street, Suite 3
Boulder, CO  80302
Tel:  720-565-1055
e-mail: info@imaginationmakers.org
www.imaginationmakers.org

Living History provides an exciting way of exploring the humanities in classrooms through the energy and expertise of professional teaching artists. The students actively participate in a new kind of experience that directly ties them into the subjects they are studying. It challenges them to engage their minds and gives them a dynamic forum in which to express their opinions to others, to ask questions of themselves and to examine their own "cultural" perspectives.

Our ultimate goal is to provide historical perspectives that help students discover new ways of working through difficult situations, and to make thoughtful and creative decisions that will assist them in developing into vital members of their communities and the world around them.

This innovative approach to teaching young adults is a popular and critical success in the Colorado School System.

Living History is:

A residency that includes performances of four scenes from classical and contemporary literature. This is followed by interactive workshops in classroom settings. The three teaching artists use a number of techniques and exercises to bring to light literature often viewd as boring or out of date by students, spur spirited discussion of difficult issues in a safe environment and provide students and teachers with the tools to continue their exploration. It is designed for all high school grades and all class levels.

For more information, or to book Living History into your school for future tours, contact us by e-mail or by phone at 303/446-4851.