Sheila Kerrigan, The Mime Who Talks!

Sheila Kerrigan, The Mime Who Talks!

Sheila Kerrigan performs her show, The Scientific Mime, or, What’s Up With Gravity? for children in grades 3-5. Science and Mime?! Once you’ve seen a mime struggling against invisible forces like gravity, pulls, and inertia, they become as real as concrete. After you’ve repeated sound and motion gestures for key vocabulary with the mime, you won’t forget what they mean. Audience interaction, and belly laughs, included.

She teaches workshops on mime, juggling, movement for actors, creating original performance, and collaboration. She teaches teachers and artists how and why to integrate the arts with non-arts curricular content. Author of The Performer’s Guide to the Collaborative Process, she guides young people, including youth at risk, in collaborative creative processes to devise original performances about issues important to them. Formerly a fellow with the A+ Schools Program, she is the president of the Southeast Center for Arts Integration and a member of Alternate ROOTS. She has taught Community-Based Performance at Duke. A member of TOUCH Mime Theater for 17 years, and director for Jelly Educational Theater for 4 years, she has performed and/or taught in 22 states.

 

EDUCATOR CONTACT INFO

kerrigan@mindspring.com

https://www.MimeWhoTalks.com

  2310 Stansbury Rd

Orange

(919) 360-0690

Force & Motion: Science & Dance

Program description

Science, Dance, and mime share similar vocabularies and concepts, like weight (heavy-light), force (push-pull), direction, and speed. In this residency, (either in class or online) students physically explore the meaning of, and demonstrate their understanding of, concepts like properties of matter, energy, sound waves, force, and motion, using the elements of dance. They grasp abstract ideas like gravity, or complexities like the effects of the sun and the moon on the tides, by embodying them and experiencing them. They learn and practice mime and dance concepts and apply them to the science standards they are learning. They collaborate in small groups to create movement pieces (mimes and/or dances) that illustrate scientific concepts. They rehearse, show their dances to other students, receive critical responses, and revise the dances. Sheila plans with the teachers ahead of time to design a residency around a specific unit in Science.

Booking / scheduling contact

Sheila Kerrigan

   919-360-0690 c

 kerrigan@mindspring.com

Program detail
Artistic discipline: Dance, Theater
Cultural Origin: Other
Program type: Residency, Workshop
Population served: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Subject: Dance, English, Science, Theatre Arts
Bilingual: No
Available dates:

October 2020 –June 2022

Available times:

School days.

Length of program: 5 sessions with each class, 45 min. to 1 hour per session, 4 classes per day. Online, limit of 3 classes per day.
Space / technical requirements:

Students need space to move in–desks can be moved or we can work in an open space. Sheila needs a place where she can post some chart paper, on the wall, some space on the board, and a little table space to hold her stuff. For online classes, she needs access to the school’s digital platforms. Students need internet connectivity.

Location(s):

Your school.

Fees / Ticketing:

$1,700 for a week.

EDUCATION STANDARDS

NC Standard Course of Study:

NC ELA SCoS CCR Anchor Standard RI.1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. Anchor Standard RI.2 – Determine central ideas (RI) or themes (RL) of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 3.3 Describe the relationship between…scientific ideas or concepts…using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. 4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a…scientific text… 5.3 Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more…events…or concepts in a …scientific…text…. NC ELA SCoS CCR Anchor Standard SL.1 – Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

NC Essential Standards:

Science grades 3–5: Forces & Motion; Matter: Properties & Change; Energy: Conservation & Transfer; Earth in the Universe; Earth Systems, Structures & Processes NB: Ms. Kerrigan plans with teachers which of the above Science concepts we will focus on. Dance Grades 3-5: Creation & Performance 1. Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images. Dance Movement Skills DM.1 Understand how to use movement skills in dance. Theatre Arts: 3-5: C.1 Use movement, voice, and writing to communicate ideas and feelings.

Qualifications

Conducts educational programming for 2 or more years: Yes
Performs criminal background checks on staff with youth contact: Yes
Maintains general liability insurance (Individuals and organizations listed in this Directory can provide proof of insurance upon request. ASC does not hold copies of current documentation for providers): Yes
Three letters of recommendation / references available: Yes
Provides study guides for teachers and or students: Yes
Connects to State and or Common Core Curriculum Standards: Yes
Provides tools to assess student learning (workshops and residencies): Yes
Conducts ongoing assessments of program quality: Yes
Cancellation Policy

If a residency is cancelled due to acts of God, illness, accident, or other circumstances out of our control, we will work to reschedule on a mutually-agreed-upon date. Cancellation by a school of a contracted residency will represent breach of contract, and school will pay damages of 50% of the agreed-upon fee. Cancellation less than 30 days before the contracted date will result in full payment of the agreed-upon fee on the contracted date. If I am unable to fulfill this contract, I will notify you no later than 10 days prior to the date of the contracted services.