This past year we enjoyed a very full, and extremely interesting range of interdisciplinary residencies encompassing Medieval, Renaissance, American, Colonial and Multicultural Heritage themes. From inner city schools to private institutions to homeschoolers, from primary to high school ages, each setting brings its own unique diversity of charms and amazements in both the students and teachers we work with.
Custom Residencies are enthusiastically welcome!

Multicultural Heritage Music, Dance, Fine, and Cooking Arts was a highly participatory residency that compared these art forms between four major cultural entities, exploring similarities and differences in their historic roots, as well as in contemporary culture. At the sime time, we explored regional differences within each culture. The residency culmination included music and dance performances for school-wide enjoyment, as well as a multicultural cook-off.

Canterbury Tales: We continue to add new programs to enhance our twin scripts "Chanticleer Tale", based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and "Renard the Fox" from the medieval French tradition. These residencies are linked to curriculum in all subject areas, and are complemented by an ever-growing detailed teacher's guide, to maximize those tie-ins. Possibilities for related developments include historic multicultural studies, folklore and fairytales, animal personification and mythology, and much more. This past year's implementation for a multi-age K-12 homeschool group was truly an unforgettable enrichment experience.

Carmina Burana: The Wheel of Fortune: Our original script goes back to its Medieval sources, a tale of fortune and fate. Designed especially for use in schools, the production includes songs in Latin, comic and tragic acting roles, dancing, instrumentals, and can be performance-ready in one-week's time. Coordinated workshops in costuming, theater craft, and more. For Grades 6-12 (wonderful photos from recent student performances coming soon!) see link

NYS Bicentennial Celebrations...a small community in the Catskills asked us to design a specialty program to celebrate that village's 200th birthday. We wrote a tall tale theatric storyline full of local references, highlighted by performances prepared by every school child K-6, including regionally related songs, dances, and scenarios. The preparatory workshops and culminating performance were a smashing success, and provide an excellent model for personalized Heritage Celebrations of all kinds.

Our extensive time working in Europe has also brought us tremendous new images of illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, architecture, and more to add to our medieval arts/history/culture slide shows. They provide resources for exciting new programs, and enhance our long-established programs for schools. These images also form the core of our most recent Photo-documentary exhibit, "From Art to Wood to Music: Sculpted Sound" see link