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Eight touring shows and educational programs designed for your needs

Open Hand Touring Performances:
* The Chocolate War
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* Grandfather Frost
* The Secret of the Puppet's Book
* The Stonecutter
* Unbridle that Mule!

Traveling Museum:
* Mask and Puppet Museum
* Masks of Life
* In Search of Baba Yaga

Workshops

Festival Puppets

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"The Chocolate War"

Our newest production tackles the issues of bullying and conflict resolution in a creative way.
This grand production for auditoriums or outdoor festival venues features a magical dwarf and a wistful stilting moon in a fantasy land of small to giant puppets.

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"Grandfather Frost's Stories of Russia"

Vladimir Vasyagin, international artist in residence, introduces the vast heritage of Russia through the antics of its wonderful folk characters.
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"The Secret Of The Puppet's Book"

Open Hand Theater invites new readers into the magical world of books with music, word fun and some most unusual puppets. Meet Lewis, an extraordinary puppet who finds fun, adventure, and some interesting friends in the magical pages of the books he finds. With delightful music and puppetry, Lewis takes us on a journey through the imagination.
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"The Stonecutter"

A lovely folk tale from Japan.
This performance weaves together two delightful stories about self-esteem, caring, and changing one's world. It features a wonderful array of puppet variations. Designed for a small stage.
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"Unbridle that Mule!"

First performed at the Erie Canal Museum's Mule Day festivities, Unbridle That Mule is especially geared for 4th & 5th grades.
The performance involves puppetry, magic and the colorful music of the canal performed live to tell the story of the building of the grand ol' canal.

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"Traveling Mask and Puppet Museum Residency"

The touring museum program brings an incredible international collection of masks and puppets to your school. Ideal for students 2nd grade and up, the program is designed so that each period a class visits the museum and learns about cultures and peoples as we symbolically travel around the world.
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"Masks of Life"

The Museum residency is especially valuable when started off with a school assembly of the performance "Masks of Life". Hand on activities during the museum visit can be added.
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"In Search of Baba Yaga"

Open Hand Theater's artistic director Geoffrey Navias uses words and music to follow a family of tales through different times and cultures.
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WORKSHOPS:


" Monkey Business "

Open Hand Theater visits the classroom with its interactive play stage, engaging children in their own performance of the well-loved story: *Hats for sale*, with puppets, sounds and some new twists and turns
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"Commedia Dell'Arte"

An Improvisational Workshop
For middle and high school students
Commedia performance originated in the Italian marketplace of the early 16th century, the basis of modern mask theater and comedy.
Open Hand Theater's Leslie Archer introduces mask performance and character study with stylized movement and improvised scenarios based on cultural stereotypes that are still familiar today

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Open Hand Theater
518 Prospect Avenue,
Syracuse, New York 13208

Tel: 315-476-0466
FAX: 315-472-2578
Email: Info@openhandtheater.org

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