Show Me!
Arts experiences are central to the development of cognitive, motor, language and social-emotional skills in young children. Gateway to the Arts Show Me!programs are designed specifically for pre-school children and provide critical early exposures to music, visual art and dance through interactive, entertaining and developmentally appropriate 30-minute sessions with our professional performing artists. Complemented by Take-Home activity sheets for parents, these workshops can accommodate audiences from 40-100 children depending on the program. Call Heidi at 412.362.6982 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to schedule your Show Me! program or discuss which ones are right for your site.
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Puppeteer/storyteller Joann Kielar's program presents three classic tales from different corners of the world. Young children experience basic components of story structure- setting, character, and plot- while creating sound effects and predicting outcomes and possibilities. Come along! Let's open the door to a world of stories.
With animals for inspiration, dancer Mary Miller and percussionist Dan Meunier use the alphabet to get children moving. Mary Miller is the founder and artistic director of Mary Miller Dance Company. Dan Meunier is a professional percussionist.
In Bubbe Tells a Tale, Grandma Bubbe and klezmer musician Janice Coppola share the Yiddish folktale It Could Be Worse. As the house fills with animals, students join in my making animal sounds, clapping, dancing, and learning some Yiddish words.
Percussionist Jeff Berman creates an interactive program using fascinating and unusual instruments from different corners of the world. Children explore the relationships of the rhythm and sound in our "language of words" to those in the "language of music"- and discover that you can hear it all if you listen closely!
Soprano Christina Farrell invites children to explore their own voices by following the examples of barnyard animals. Children will discover that music is everywhere, even in our chores! They will use listening skills to identify sounds—high and low, long and short, loud and soft—and participate in familiar nursery rhymes and the opera chorus of animals.