Christopher Maier - Moving Stories

Catch the Rhythm/Viva el Ritmo! Storyteller/flamenco dancer Christopher Maier offers a hilarious collection of anecdotes, folktales, songs, raps, and rhymes about rhythm in language and everyday life. A Mexican folktale about a snowstorm out of season, Abiyoyo, frog and toad, and other stories are told with rhythm as their theme, and rhythm in the language of the telling. Single Performance $300 Two back-to-back performances $505 Grade Levels: K-8

Original Folktales

Creative writing is celebrated in the telling of original stories based on world folk tales. Stories may include an Ethiopian folk tale transplanted to the San Luis Valley, "La Chica" (Cinderella living in Dallas, Texas), and a Japanese tale that now includes the first brain-to-brain home shopping network! The folktales which inspired these contemporary stories are available prior to performance dates.

Single Performance $300.00
Two back to back performances $505
Grade Levels: K-8

Words at Play!

Celebrate the many ways of playing with language, with stories, poems, songs, limericks, and tongue twisters.  This program draws inspiration from Dr. Seuss and riddles, Lewis Carroll and folk humor.

Single Performance $300.00
Two back-to-back performances $505
Grade Levels: K-6

Workshop:  Creating Original Folk Tales

This 1-hour workshop motivates students to take on the work of writing by using the power of verbal imagery and borrowing plots and characters from existing folk tales.  Stories are created orally first, then turned into writing.  This workshop is available for two classes of 50 students.

Fee:  170
DEAL! Fee: $120 with a performance
Grade Levels: 3-12

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Contact Information:   Think 360 Arts Complete Education
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                                   Denver, CO 80224
                                   Phone 720-904-8890
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Last updated: March 14, 2008

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