Winter Club Creates Programming

Schierl Center

Puppets Take the Stage with Stories & Song!

        With Visiting Artist Pam Corcoran

• Grades: 1st-3rd
• Limit: 12 Club Members
• Cost: $10 per member
• Fee waived if member qualifies for Free/Reduced Priced Lunch 
  
• Dates: Tuesdays from 5:15-6:00 PM
• 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/5, 3/12

Puppeteers in grades 1 to 3 will make an assortment of puppets, including scarf marionettes and sock puppets, and develop a performance to take to the River View theater! 

Create Muppet-style puppets and learn to make them talk and sing! The workshop will culminate with a puppet/open mic, where puppets will be encouraged to tell jokes, stories or sing songs. Several group numbers will be rehearsed for final community performance. 

Puppetry brings the magic of theater, helping us to discover and understand our relationship though our world and with others. Puppetry is a powerful, life-changing experience for all ages that offers a doorway to new-found confidence and provides a creative way to share. 

Pam Corcoran is a puppeteer who enjoys telling stories. Her goal is for participants to find new ways to share their unique exploration through written word, either their own, or by of others. Pam has shared her love for Puppetry through Arts for All, Wisconsin for over 25 years. She was first inspired to be a puppeteer from a course she took at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and her most recent work is inspired from a workshop attended in Prague (2019) that focused on building and performing with Czech rod marionettes. 

Artist Statement: 

“In selecting materials for my own shows, I am always seeking to change the world in small ways. If someone is more likely to choose to be kind, chooses to protect our beautiful planet, and considers the needs of others before their own wants, I have been successful.” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxgcSQxBJ5Q&t=2s 

 website: corcoranpuppets.com 

Cultural Dance: May Dance Celebration

       With Visiting Artist Angie Nyquist and PDE Company Members 

• Grades: 3rd & 4th
• Limit: 15 Club Members
• Cost: $10 per member
• Fee waived if member qualifies for Free/Reduced Priced Lunch
  
• Dates: Mondays from 5:15-6:00 PM
• 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6
  
• Performance at the Portage County Cultural Festival at SPASH, Saturday, May 11th. Time of Performance TBA

Morris Dance is the earliest form of English folk dance dating as early as 1448. The dance is based on rhythmic stepping and consists of choreography featuring group forms.  Dancers wear bells and use props including sticks and handkerchiefs. The May Pole dance is most familiar with young dancers celebrating the start of spring by weaving ribbons and colorful cloth in a dance form taking place on May 1st. BGC members who participate will perform their dance at the Portage County Cultural Festival on Saturday, May 11th at SPASH.  

Artist Statement:

From her first tap class at age four through UW-Stevens Point and right up until the present, Angie Nyquist always includes dance as part of her life. With over 25 years of experience teaching dance to children, her programs have showcased at Minnesota Children’s Museum, Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum, Royal Family Kids Camp and with home-school groups. Her past work with Point Dance Ensemble in collaboration with Arts for All Wisconsin includes works titled, “About Bev,” (2018) “Free to Be Me,” (2018) and “Laura” (2019) all showcasing dancers with disabilities. Partnering with ARTS for ALL Wisconsin and the Children’s Long-Term Support Waiver, Angie has brought dance into the lives of children with disabilities for 20 years. Owner of Learn & Love It Dance Classes, Angie continues to bring her love for children and dance together by offering group classes in Stevens Point and Almond, WI.