Cirque Um Navigate Puppetry Workshop
This incursion runs as a blended combination of puppet show with workshop activities interlaced throughout.
Our puppeteer will present their show utilising a whole spectrum of puppets of every size, teaching the children to operate puppets as small as their fingers through to puppets their own height! The show is full of comedic moments and audience interaction, with participation elements for all and contains hundreds of puppets!
Adaptable to All Ages and Skill-Levels
We are adept at communicating skills to all kids, irrespective of their age. While this incursion suits primary-school-aged kids and up, it can also be altered to fit pre-schoolers’ ability-level, too.
Each type of puppet has a range of expressive techniques, meaning that the full breadth of ability-levels can be addressed within the one workshop.
We guarantee each child will succeed in achieving skills to express themselves with puppets – this is the goal of the way we teach and the challenges we set.
We want every participant to unlock the joys of trying something new and doing something they didn’t realise they could!
Suitable for All Group Sizes
We can accommodate any number of children in this incursion, up to and including your entire school population! See our Q&As for how.
What happens in the incursion?
This incursion runs as a blended combination of puppet show with workshop activities interlaced throughout.
Our puppeteer will present their show utilising a whole spectrum of puppets of every size, teaching the children to operate puppets as small as their fingers through to puppets their own height! The show is full of comedic moments and audience interaction, with participation elements for all and contains hundreds of puppets!
What skills will the children learn?
- Finger puppetry
- Marionettes (format variation is dependent on group age/coordination-level)
- Hand-puppetry (both arm-mobilised puppets and mouth-mobilised puppets - many puppets reflect diverse backgrounds)
- Rod puppets
- Half-body 2-person puppets
- Bunraku puppets (multi-person puppets)
Educational Outcomes
- The Arts: Puppet show - watch a technical skill executed in an educational and entertaining puppetry demonstration
- The Arts: Puppetry skill-building - learn the basics of an entertainment discipline
- English: Storytelling - abstract or specific storytelling through physicalised play
- English: Storytelling - group collaboration on improvised storycraft
- English: Storytelling - creating to a brief or prompt (either verbally issued or organically in response to the character/costume of the puppet)
- Language: Communication - non-verbal communication (through the use of arms/body only puppets)
- Language: Technical Language - learn and use puppetry technical language
- Language and Health: Communication and conflict resolution - children improvise the expression of their puppets' emotion and interact with others' puppets
- Health: Resilience - some puppetry forms (eg. Bunraku) that require teamwork may prove an initial challenge for some children
- Physical Health: Physically Active - some puppetry activites (eg. Bunraku exercise class) are physically active and involve a level of active movement
About the Program
This incursion runs as a blended combination of puppet show with workshop activities interlaced throughout.
Our puppeteer will present their show utilising a whole spectrum of puppets of every size, teaching the children to operate puppets as small as their fingers through to puppets their own height! The show is full of comedic moments and audience interaction, with participation elements for all and contains hundreds of puppets!
Adaptable to All Ages and Skill-Levels
We are adept at communicating skills to all kids, irrespective of their age. While this incursion suits primary-school-aged kids and up, it can also be altered to fit pre-schoolers’ ability-level, too.
Each type of puppet has a range of expressive techniques, meaning that the full breadth of ability-levels can be addressed within the one workshop.
We guarantee each child will succeed in achieving skills to express themselves with puppets – this is the goal of the way we teach and the challenges we set.
We want every participant to unlock the joys of trying something new and doing something they didn’t realise they could!
Suitable for All Group Sizes
We can accommodate any number of children in this incursion, up to and including your entire school population! See our Q&As for how.
What happens in the incursion?
This incursion runs as a blended combination of puppet show with workshop activities interlaced throughout.
Our puppeteer will present their show utilising a whole spectrum of puppets of every size, teaching the children to operate puppets as small as their fingers through to puppets their own height! The show is full of comedic moments and audience interaction, with participation elements for all and contains hundreds of puppets!
What skills will the children learn?
- Finger puppetry
- Marionettes (format variation is dependent on group age/coordination-level)
- Hand-puppetry (both arm-mobilised puppets and mouth-mobilised puppets - many puppets reflect diverse backgrounds)
- Rod puppets
- Half-body 2-person puppets
- Bunraku puppets (multi-person puppets)
Educational Outcomes
- The Arts: Puppet show - watch a technical skill executed in an educational and entertaining puppetry demonstration
- The Arts: Puppetry skill-building - learn the basics of an entertainment discipline
- English: Storytelling - abstract or specific storytelling through physicalised play
- English: Storytelling - group collaboration on improvised storycraft
- English: Storytelling - creating to a brief or prompt (either verbally issued or organically in response to the character/costume of the puppet)
- Language: Communication - non-verbal communication (through the use of arms/body only puppets)
- Language: Technical Language - learn and use puppetry technical language
- Language and Health: Communication and conflict resolution - children improvise the expression of their puppets' emotion and interact with others' puppets
- Health: Resilience - some puppetry forms (eg. Bunraku) that require teamwork may prove an initial challenge for some children
- Physical Health: Physically Active - some puppetry activites (eg. Bunraku exercise class) are physically active and involve a level of active movement