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Programs
Original and Adapted Theatreworks
Special Events & Custom Programs
Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies
Artists & Performers Include:
musicians: classical, jazz, hip hop, pop, world cultures, drummers, Broadway, opera, operetta
dancers: all styles
actors: classical characters, historical impersonators, improv performers
scriptwriters
craft & workshop artists
jewelry makers
face and body painters
dollmakers
caricaturists
chalk artists
muralists
martial artists
flag & fire spinners
puppeteers
fortunetellers
magicians
storytellers
clowns and balloon clowns
mimes
ventriloquists
jugglers
stiltwalkers
designers, costumers, wigmasters
Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies:
Express the artist in you! Learn and have fun while engaging in hands-on, creative activities!
Milwaukee Public Theatre designs programs and activities for any site, for all ages and abilities and for business, school, community, and/or personal interests. MPT provides a strong education/outreach focus, collaborating with over 50 professional artist/teachers of many cultural and educational backgrounds and media expertise.
A diverse selection of workshops are available in Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Drama, Puppetry, Circus, and Fitness with custom applications available for businesses including workforce development, team building, wellness initiatives, creative problem solving, diversity training and educating companies about ADA issues.
An Artist In residence at Lincoln Center Middle School of the Arts since 1979, Milwaukee Public Theatre works extensively with MPS and other educational institutions. See the Milwaukee Arts Eeducation Directory for a more complete description of ways that MPT relates programming to various curricula.
Fees vary depending on artist, type and duration of activity, the number of participants, and equipment and supplies. Examples include, but are not limited to:
PERFORMING ARTS: MPT provides training in many performing arts disciplines, including Music, Dance, Theatre, Circus and Puppetry. If a public performance is desired, we suggest scheduling an arts residency of AT LEAST 12 hours of hands-on workshops and preferably more. Examples of Performing Arts Workshops/Residencies include:
- Storytelling/Creative Dramatics teaches participants dance, music, singing and acting skills, develops their ability to work together and to communicate via a wide range of characters. Longer Arts Residencies can result in the creation of a public show performed at the site. Themes can relate to curriculum areas such as Environment, Health, History, Science, Social Studies.
- Creativity/Theatre Improvisation guides participants in learning improvisational movement and speaking skills, the ability to think-on-their-feet, and develops themes of relevance and interest to the group. Arts residencies can result in the creation of an original show.
STORYBRIDGE: offers storytelling workshops for senior adults, developing a core group of storytellers of multicultural tales who work with primary school children to encourage a love of stories and increase reading and writing skills.
RAINBOW CIRQUS ARTS: engages participants from ages 6 to adult to families in a variety of circus skills that may include juggling, tumbling, clowning, stilt-walking and specialty acts to promote physical fitness and healthy food choices, improve communication skills and encourage team building.
MUSIC RESIDENCIES: Examples include: a) Percussion Workshops teaching drumming and multiple rhythms, songs and chants from African, Latino and Native American cultures; b) Music Composition teaches participants (youth to adults) to compose and record their own songs on a CD; c) Instrument Workshops teach participants to make and play simple percussion instruments: drums, shakers, shakeres, etc.
WORLD DANCE: Classes in African, Latin, Stepping, Hip Hop, Tap, and Ballroom are all available and taught by professional dancers from various cultures and traditions.
FUN&FIT4EVER offers a variety of physical fitness programs from Zuumba to Martial Arts that are designed for all ages by group: 6-8 years, 9 - 12 years, 13 - 17 years, adult and family. Example: Capoeira is a martial arts/dance from Brazil that incorporates music and gymnastics.
MULTI-CULTURAL VISUAL ARTS/CRAFTS: Activities include paper and fabric arts, painting, jewelry and beadwork, maskmaking, puppet making, facepainting, costumes/sewing.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESIDENCY: Ten to twelve participants work with an MPT artist in six to sixteen 90-minute sessions, learning the basics of running their own business by making and selling craft items such as hand-made paper cards, tie-dye t-shirts and pillows, candles, soap, etc. A very popular program developed in collaboration with the Hillside Boys and Girls Club, Children's Outing Association, Westside Academy, and Lisbon Avenue Neighborhood Development.
Recent organizations which have sponsored residencies or workshops include:
Boys and Girls Clubs, Children's Outing Association (Garfield and Goldin), Fletcher School, Fratney School, Fritsche Middle School, Green Bay Avenue School, Hi Mount School, Keefe Avenue School, Lincoln Center of the Arts, Longfellow Middle School, Loyola Academy, Marshall High School, Maryland Montessori, Metcalfe, Milwaukee Christian Center, Milwaukee High School of the Arts, Mitchell Street School, Neighborhood House, Next Door Foundation, St. Joan Antida, Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, Silver Spring Neighborhood Center, SDC Head Start, Spotted Eagle, Task Force on Family Violence, and Washington High School.
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