Performance Guide - TPO's Kindur

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LE Lower Elementary | Performance Guide

Kindur (Icelandic Sheep) In a quest for food, Icelandic sheep discover nature’s hidden inhabitants. Kindur showcases the extraordinary beauty of the natural world by sharing the both strong and fragile world of glaciers, northern lights, geysers and rumbling waterfalls. Every natural element seems animated by mysterious forces and even the humblest animals live their own adventurous lives in cycle with the seasons. Through use of sensors and motion capture technologies, two dancers and a singer tell a story of the seasons with breathtaking scenery and visual effects, where sounds and images Photo credit: react in an interactive way .

Learning Standards: Oral and Visual Communications; Social Studies – Geography – Interaction of People and the Environment; Visual Arts; Theater; Music and Dance.


Ready, Set, Show!

Photo copyright TPO

About the Sheep and Iceland

About the Artists and Art Form

Text about real sheep and the unique habitat of Iceland

TPO has designed a unique scenic space. The structure includes a vertical projection on a large screen at the back, and a “carpet� on the floor on which dancers dance, children walk and light is projected. The interactive space is managed with sensory optics. Infrared video cameras that can :detect: the movement of bodies show motion on the screen and floor with light. Images of the grasslands, outlines of the sheep pens and the athereal aurora borealis are projected on the screen.

About the Story The Scenes of the story are: A flock of sheep . . . the sheep pen . . . the wind . . . the snowy winter . . . the aurora borealis . . . the spring . . . the journey across the island the trolls the volcano the waterfall the elves

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Text Card Content used in Workshop Text that tell a little story of migration based on scenario from TPO


Pre-Performance Activities Making Predictions

Creative Listening

Reader’s Theater

Kindur Pre performance Activity Here

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Responding to the performance Text with great prompts about this unique

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performance Post Show Discussion Text with great prompts about this performance Learning at Walton Arts Center Learn More Online

Laura Goodwin, VP Learning & Engagement

To learn more about TPO

Dr. Patricia Relph, Arts Learning Specialist

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Katie Lamar, Schools Concierge

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Dianna Blaylock, Learning Coordinator

ArtsEdge website: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org Performance Guide Contributors: Kassie Misicwicz, Artistic Executive Director Trike Theatre. Molly Carroll

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Pruitt Tool Company

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for the Arts

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Tyson Foods, Inc.

Walmart Foundation

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