Northern Prairie Performing Arts is a professional theatre touring company that brings high quality productions with outstanding artistic value into schools across the upper midwest. We have toured for three years and have reached over 12,000 students. Our professional actors come from all over the country through nation wide auditions.
Each year NPPA selects productions that inlcude various issues that are currently being explored in the classroom. Issues like Bullying, Discrimination, Acceptance & Intolerance.
INTEGRATING THEATRE & THE CLASSROOM
Welcome to the 08-09 tour of the professional acting company, Northern Prairie Performing Arts! This year the tour will run from November 08 through April 09. For information on the shows, grant opportunities, and information about booking the shows, look on the following pages of this brochure.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Northern Prairie Performing Arts (NPPA) offers several different educational programs:
1. Performance of a play. NPPA selects the plays they produce very carefully. Selection is based on artistic merit of the script, curricula appropriateness/state teaching standards addressed, social relevance of messages taught within the script, and theatricality.
2. Performance of a play with a talkback session. Talkback sessions immediately following the performance last about 8-12 minutes and engage the audience through the emotions, themes, and values of the production they viewed. These talkbacks allow the teachers to further the discussions in their classrooms, and the actors are very adept at eliciting participation from the audience members. There is no additional fee for these talkback sessions.
3. Add one-hour workshops for your students. All of our workshops help your school satisfy state arts standards.
4. NPPA is on the Artist-in-Residence roster in some states and offers unique three-day residencies for your schools. The three day residency includes:
Continuing Education Credits for teachers!
A performance of the play.
Special arts-related classes for teachers.
The one-hour workshops described above in number 3.
Five one-hour workshops for students based on subject matter directly related to the play performed.
A chance to incorporate differentiated learning into your classroom!
A public event.
If your school is interested in any of the programs we have to offer (hint: getting your Parent/Teacher organization involved is a great way to fund these programs) or if you have any questions, please call the Tour Administrator, Scott Brusven, at 701-235-1901
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Thank you to the following organizations for your ongoing Funding & Contributions:
Bush Foundation
Xcel Energy Foundation
Dana Foundation
The National Endowment
for the Arts
Alex Stern Family Foundation
The Otto Bremer Foundation
Forum Communications
Foundation
The Seattle Childrens Theatre
Creation in Common
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Perpich Center for Arts in Education
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