Colors

Cuesheet Performance Guide

Welcome to a performance of dance, music, play, and

Presented by Compagnia TPO and Teatro Metastasio from Italy

Look inside for a fun game!

Presenting Sponsor of Performances for Young Audiences

Hello Color Find Me!

red boots blue dog yellow car orange pumpkin green dinosaur purple dancer brown bicycle black music notes gray spaceship pink drum

A Bonus Find!

The white building where you’re seeing the show! (It’s The Kennedy Center, named after President John F. Kennedy.)

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It’s a Colorful, Wonderful World YAY! You’ve finished the game, and you’re ready to use your color-finding talents.

Think about how you’ll use them when you see the show.

Now Watch! How the

And Guess What? Mixing

show starts with just three main colors (called primary colors):

those colors makes three more colors!

Red

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Orange

Blue

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Green

Yellow

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Purple

AFter the Show

Think back…Which colors did you see on stage?

Talk about…If you were part of the show, what color would you want to be? How would you make your color and move it around? Show your ideas to a friend.

Think about…Dr. Seuss says, “Some days are yellow. Some are blue. On different days, I’m different, too.” Can you imagine days as colors? What color would today be to you? What about yesterday? Why?

Discover All the Colors Around You

Find Me. Now that you have found colors

Look for things that are the same color and use your senses to talk about them. Here are some ideas to get you started:

here and in the theater, look for them around your neighborhood. Name and count as many colors as you can see. Which color shows up the most? On a piece of paper, use crayons or markers to draw the most colorful things on your street.

An orange fruit and an orange carrot—What do they look like? Feel like? Taste like? Sound like when you bite into them?

Green grass and green leaves—What do they look like?

Feel like? Smell like?

Move Me. How would you move like the color red?

Blue? Show your ideas to friends and try moving like other colors, too. With a small group, you can even play a game where one person chooses a color, and everyone moves like that color at the same time. Watch how people see and move to color in different ways.

A red fire truck and a red bird (like a cardinal)—What do they look like? Sound like?

Choose some of the colorful things from around your home and tell a story with them. If you like, imagine them as other things, like using a carrot as a microphone.

Explore Me. Get to know colors using your senses: What do they look like?

What do they sound like?

What do they feel like?

Remember Me. Use all the exciting things you’ve learned about colors to discover and enjoy colors everywhere. Colors can help you play, dance, draw, tell stories, and imagine all sorts of things.

All you need to do? Keep finding, moving, exploring, and remembering .

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What do they smell like?

What do they taste like (if a grownup says it’s okay to taste)?

David M. Rubenstein Chairman Deborah F. Rutter President Mario R. Rossero Senior Vice President Education

Additional support for Colors is provided by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation; the Kimsey Endowment; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Anne and Chris Reyes; and the U.S. Department of Education.

Funding for Access and Accommodation Programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.

International programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts.

The contents of this Cuesheet have been developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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