Early Years
0-4 yrs

Shadow Play

For Early Years (under 6's)

Chicken Licken -to accompany the under 6's show DNA offer 30 min simple shadow workshops making puppets and performing with them in a 'Parade of Poultry (and foxes)'

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - a special 30min storytelling workshop to accompany the nursery and reception/ Year 1 show, or on it's own exploring the world of shadows on the overhead projector. Using little fingers as wriggly caterpillars, and making shadow butterflies.

For Juniors (6 - 11 years)

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.
Minimum session 3 hours (morning or afternoon) up to a residency for one week.

Journeys (Year 2/3)
Fantastic travel can be into space, under water, flying in the sky, through the jungel 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.

For Secondary (10 - 14 years)

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

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