Puppetry Workshops

Improv Workshops

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Create a Character Workshop
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Are you ready to try your hand at making your own puppet character?  Release your inner puppeteer - you know you have one!  Explore the possibilities of your own puppet or try your hand at one of Johanna's original puppets.  She will introduce you to basic manipulation skills, vocal technique, and simple teaching strategies.
Why are so many in the corporate world tapping into the power of Improv? Because it works!  Join Johanna for a fast-paced and fun exploration of improv games and concepts that she has learned through years of professional training, performing, and research.  She will customize a workshop for your group that will build vital skills in communication, collaboration, listening, quick thinking, storytelling, emotional intelligence, and creativity.  She’ll also share the research and resources that support Improvisation as a unique teaching tool. Click below to see & hear me go on and on about it!  

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Advanced Puppet Manipulation
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Learn techniques Johanna has perfected over the last 20 years of teaching and performing, and after working and studying with the Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eric Bass of Sandglass Theatre, the O'Neill Puppetry Conference, Michael Earl, Gina Pavlova, and many movement artists from all over the world.  Use a variety of puppets to learn a basic vocabulary of puppet movement.  

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Teaching and Assessing the Standards through Puppetry
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Engage your students while meeting the standards. Join Johanna in a workshop which covers all four of the fine arts in one amazing, engaging, and standards-based lesson.  Johanna will share lessons she developed with children aged 8-12 for the NEA.  We'll cover as many standards as we can and use lots of recycled and found materials.  Learn strategies to create experiences that children will love and simple ways to keep the arts in the classroom.

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