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MAR 19—22 BAM Fisher Kindur MAR 19—22 BAM Fisher Compagnia TPO Artistic Direction by Francesco Gandi and Davide Venturini A co-production with Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana Study Guide written by Nicole Kempskie with excerpts from Compagnia TPO BAM PETER JAY SHARP BUILDING 30 LAFAYETTE AVE. BROOKLYN, NY 11217 TABLE OF CONTENTS DEAR EDUCATOR YOUR VISIT TO BAM Welcome to the Study Guide for the The BAM program includes: this study Page 3: The Production production of Kindur that you and guide, a pre-performance workshop in Page 4: Scene-by-Scene your students will be attending as your classroom led by a BAM teaching Page 5: Iceland: A Magical Land part of BAM Education’s School Time artist, and the performance (March 19- Performance Series. This magical tale 22; 90 minutes) immediately followed by Page 6: Iceland: Its Magical follows the travels of three sheep as a post-show discussion (30-40 minutes). Creatures they make their annual journey through Page 7: Classroom Activities the Icelandic landscape. Three dancers Please arrange for your students to stay bring these adventurous sheep to life and participate in this unique question- accompanied by massive screens filled and-answer session. with gorgeous projections depicting the vast beauty of Iceland’s landscape. At this performance, students will not only sit back and watch the story unfold, they will also participate in the story, at times being invited onto the stage in order to trigger and co-create the sounds, images, music, and colors that make up this world. In addition, this performance provides a wonderful opportunity to explore the natural wonders and culture of Iceland in the classroom; its fairy-tale landscape of glaciers, volcanoes, waterfalls, and Northern Lights, as well as its mysterious elves and troublesome trolls. “Great fun on multiple levels, and a love letter to the gift of our bodies’ senses, Kindur offers insights to participants of all ages.” —Michelle Wang, Time Out Chicago Introduction2 HOW TO USE THE PRODUCTION THIS GUIDE WHAT TO EXPECT THE COMPANY Arts experiences resonate most strongly Each student will be given a special for students when themes and ideas Compagnia TPO is a visual theater heart as they enter the theater. It is a from the performance can be aligned to company based in Prato, Italy. The woolen heart that lights up when it’s your current curriculum. This resource company has been devising original time for them to take an active part in guide has been created to provide visual theater works devoted to the performance. In some cases a few you with background information to children’s audiences since it was hearts will light up and those children help you prepare your students to see founded in 1981. By using interactive will be invited on stage in small groups, Kindur. Depending on your needs, you technology every show is transformed at other times all the hearts light up at may choose to use certain sections into a “sensitive” environment where the the same time and the entire audience that directly pertain to your curriculum, thin border between art and play can be will stand and interact with the dancers or use the guide in its entirety. We experienced. Dancers, performers, and from their seats. encourage you to photocopy and share the audience itself interact with each pages of this guide with your students. other and explore new expressive forms THE CREATIVE TEAM In addition, at the end of this guide you that go beyond language and cultural will find suggested classroom activities barriers. TPO’s shows are renowned Directed by: that you can implement before or after for using vibrant visual sceneries which Davide Venturini and Francesco Gandi attending the performance. transform into interactive theatrical Choreographed by: spaces, thanks to the use of sensors and Anna Balducci, Paola Lattanzi, The overall goals of this guide are to: digital technologies. Erika Faccini Connect to your curriculum Written by: with standards-based information HOW TECHNOLOGY IS USED Stefania Zamiga and activities; TPO’s shows are created by a team of Digital Design: Reinforce and encourage your artists who use different forms (mainly Elsa Mersi students to exercise their critical and theater, dance, and visual arts), as well analytical thinking skills; as images projected onto large surfaces, Computer Design: and interactive technology. The stage Rossano Monti and, provide you and your students space is considered to be a dynamic and with the necessary tools to have responsive environment, and by using Sound Design: an engaging, educational, and sensors (infrared video cameras, lights, Spartaco Cortesi inspiring experience at BAM. and microphones) the audience is able Computer Engineering: to interact with it in the same way we Martin von Guten interact with computers, smart phones, and tablets—through movement and Costumes: voice. In Kindur, the dancers ‘paint’ and Fiamma Ciotti Farulli ‘play music’ on stage using their bodies. Scenery/Props: In addition, the children in the audience Livia Cortesi get to enter the playing space and Sound/Light/Video: explore it, experimenting with the way Massimiliano Fierli and Andrea Fincato the environment responds to their own voices, bodies, and movements. Introduction3 SCENE BY SCENE See the Classroom Activities on page SCENE 6: Spring 7 for an Introductory Activity that uses Spring has come and the sheep can leave these scene descriptions. All words their pen. Now there is light and there is in CAPS are defined in more detail on sun. There are many busy bees buzzing the next two pages. around and lots of puddles to jump in as the RAVENS fly about. SCENE 1: Rèttir It is September in ICELAND. The sound SCENE 7: The Journey of scampering around and shuffling in It’s time to leave, time to go away. Our the mud can be heard. On stage there is sheep’s journey through Iceland begins. a round space. In Icelandic it is called On stage you can see valleys, mountains, RÈTTIR, and it’s the sheep’s meeting and rivers. The weather keeps changing. point after their long summer journeys. Near a beach there’s a desert of stones. SCENE 2: The Breathing Pen SCENE 8: Trolls It is getting dark and the sun is setting. It The sheep meet up with stone giants that is autumn! There is some wind moving are very ugly. Sometimes they do funny the grass. The sheep start breathing and dances because. They are TROLLS and as they do, the turf houses behind them they might be the guardians of a volcano. start to “breathe,” too! These turf houses are the pens the sheep will spend the SCENE 9: The Volcano winter in. During their long journey, the sheep also have to face a VOLCANO spitting fire like SCENE 3: The Wind is a Wolf a dragon. The sheep have to run from Now it is winter. All the sheep are inside one place to another to avoid being burnt. the pen because outside there is a bitter No part of the ground seems safe. The wind coming straight from the GLACIERS. volcano is always ready to attack. But The sheep move here and there, afraid of fire and ice live together in Iceland. Water their own shadows in the middle of this stops fire and fire warms water, and in windy night. the end, a white cloud rises and hides everything. SCENE 4: The Sheep’s Dream When the winds die down, it begins to SCENE 10: Waterfalls snow. It would be impossible for the We hear a big noise. The ground vibrates. sheep to be outside. The only thing they Magnificent WATERFALLS appear and can do is lie down, sleep, and dream. But resound like a big musical instrument. in their dreams they are outside playing, The water leaps high and falls on the becoming as light as snowflakes. round. SCENE 5: Northern Lights SCENE 11: The Elves’ Party The sheep are still fast asleep. They The journey of the sheep is almost over. dream of painting with their bodies. As But why have they traveled all this way? they move they leave streaks of colors all To meet the ELVES and join their party! around the stage, just like the NORTHERN The elves are magical creatures hidden LIGHTS that appear in the sky during the among the grass blades, but the sheep long winter nights in Iceland. know just how to find them: you have to look around and see if there are hairy flowers called COTTON GRASS. Where there are hairy flowers, there are elves! Curriculum4 Connections ICELAND: A MAGICAL LAND ICELAND is an island in the North WINTER nights in Iceland are very long. WATERFALLS can be found in various Atlantic Ocean, just below the Arctic On the Winter Solstice (December 21), parts of Iceland during the summer, Circle, between Greenland and the rest the shortest day of the year, night skies especially the north and west, when the of Europe. It is a small country but it has begin to darken around three o’clock in the enormous glaciers formed during the cold many natural wonders: meadows and afternoon and the sun doesn’t rise the next winters begin to melt. deserts, glaciers, volcanoes, waterfalls, day until around noon. *Discuss waterfalls with students. Has and magical colored lights called *Discuss with students what it would be anyone ever seen one? Swam in one? “Northern Lights,” that fill the sky in the like here if we only had a few hours of Where might we find waterfalls in New winter. During the winter, the nights are daylight in the winter. York? very long and in the summer, the days seem to be never-ending.
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