Interactive Folktale Theatre

 

Kristin Pedemonti combines storytelling and theatre to share traditional tales from around the world. Every show includes audience participation and is as educational as it is entertaining. Kristin has performed for thousands of children and adults at hundreds of locations throughout Pennsylvania and Belize, Central America.


Explore the world through interactive folktale theatre in these educational, multicultural, entertaining and fun programs.


Participants help tell the tales - simple costumes and dialogue provided. Programs tie into school curriculum standards.


Sample Program Description:

Dragons, Knights, and Damsels NOT in Distress: The Medieval Times Experience: Join Kristin and travel back to Medieval Times.


Learn fun facts about daily life including schooling, chores and marvelous medical treatments: Did you know that one of the cures for the common cold was to wear a dead frog around your neck? Wow, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I have a frog in my throat!"


The show ends with several audience members performing St. George and the Dragon, complete with props and dialogue! A perfect selection for youth ages 8 and up!

Other themes currently available:


African Tales/African Safari

Around the World with Folktale Theatre

Character Education Folktale Program

Holiday Stories for December

Irish Tales for St. Patrick’s Day

It's a Bug's Life: Summer Reading 2008

Latin American Tales collected from Belize and Guatemala!

Multicultural Trickster Tales & Harvest Tales for Autumn

Tales to Chill Your Spine: ages 8 and up

© 2008 Kristin Pedemonti. All rights reserved.

Artist in Residency Programs

Multicultural, Educational, enhances Literacy! These programs coordinate with school curriculum and are perfect for Language Arts, Social Studies, ESL, Title I, Literacy and Reading.

  1. Bullet School-wide or grade level Story Theatre assemblies of multicultural folktales

  2. Bullet Classroom visits in which the students engage in hands-on activities

  3. Bullet Choose from Storytelling or Story-writing based activities tailored to grade levels with Ms. Pedemonti leading the students in exercises.

  4. BulletTeacher Workshops are also available, teachers learn how to incorporate more storytelling into their classrooms and learn basic storytelling techniques to inspire their students!

Storytelling activities: students break into small groups and working together:

Tell their own life stories with topics such as "How I Got This Scar," My most scary moment was...", "The Best Birthday Ever."

Story-writing activities: each activity is based on a storytelling model in which the students listen to a selection of stories told in the same format in which they will write. Then a template is used to facilitate the writing experience.

  1. ✓ Retell classic folktales such as The Three Pigs

  2. ✓ Basic Storytelling Techniques

  3. ✓ Character Voices

  4. ✓ Body Movement

  5. ✓ Engaging the audience

  1. ✓How and Why (Porquoi) Tales featuring Pennsylvania wildlife or endangered animals around the globe.

  2. ✓Proverb Stories in which students choose a proverb from countries around the world and write a short story exemplifying the proverb; excellent for Middle and High School

  3. ✓Character Stories: students choose a character or folk figure important to their culture of origin and write a short story about what happens when they meet the character! Example, Tata Duhende in Belize is a protector of the forest, Pecos Bill from the US, an ornery cowboy, Cinderella from German culture, etc.

  4. ✓Cinderella Around the World: there are more than 800 Cinderella stories throughout the world, students will listen to several stories and then write their own version set wherever they wish. This program emphasizes how we are all interconnected.