ARTS Showcase
For the 2023-24 academic year, the Providence Performing Arts Center will be presenting both live and virtual ARTS Showcase performances. Schools are allowed to sign up for one live performance and as many virtual performances as they would like. WE REQUEST THAT ONE CONTACT TEACHER REGISTER FOR EACH SCHOOL, SO THAT WE DON’T HAVE MULTIPLE ORDERS PER SCHOOLS FOR IN-PERSON PERFORMANCES. The virtual offering of specified performances will be offered one month following the live performance and will be available for viewing for a three-week period. Our performance season this year runs from October 2023 through May of 2024.
ARTS Showcase performances at PPAC feature both New England and nationally acclaimed touring artists. The artists are selected by a PPAC committee based on artistic quality, cultural diversity, educational value, and the positive message of the performances. Schools must register online to be part of our live viewing audience (limited to a seating capacity of 2200). Once schools register, they will receive a confirmation email letting them know if their group has been confirmed for seats. We also reimburse for busing costs for groups of 20 students or more attending our performances; you must submit these invoices to brinaldi@ppacri.org within 60 days of the performance that your school attended, and we will send a check to cover the transportation cost. Please note: PPAC is NOT responsible for any busing costs incurred due to last-minute changes within 48 hours of the performance.
Prior to each performance, the contact teacher receives a study guide to share with colleagues and to help in the development of curriculum activities. Following each performance, students and teachers are asked to submit an electronic “report card”, grading the performance they attended and offering additional feedback. This “report card” is sent out electronically through a digital link to the teacher that is registering students to attend. It is our hope that the contact teacher shares this digital link with all teachers attending with students from their school, so that we can get accurate data for future and current funders and so that we can continue to serve teachers and students with the best content possible.
Viewing and attending PPAC ARTS Showcase performances is FREE; these performances are not available to the public. This initiative is an outreach program offered to Rhode Island students in grades K-8. YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO PARTICIPATE BOTH IN PERSON AND VIRTUALLY. Teachers/schools who are interested in attending in person or virtually viewing PPAC ARTS Showcase performances with their students can complete a registration form on our website or request registration materials from Betsy Rinaldi at brinaldi@ppacri.org. (Please specify the PPAC ARTS Showcase performance you are interested in registering for when reaching out.)
*Please note: THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC will NOT be available for virtual viewing during the 2023-24 season.*
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023 – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023
*AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY ONLY*
Providence Ballet Theatre’s production transforms the traditional fairy tale of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS into a journey to discover the nature of true beauty, loyalty, and companionship. Left alone in the forest, Snow White discovers love and true friendship. This work features a collaboration between choreographer and Artistic Director Eva Marie Pacheco and composer Tony Lustig, with the talents of local professional dancers of Providence Ballet
Theatre and members of the PBT’s Jr. Company to create an all-new artistic experience for all ages. Beneath the visual treat of the ballet itself, this version of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS has an underlying theme, “let us not judge by outward appearances, the external beauty when not combined with inner goodness will eventually fade, and evil will be exposed”.
This performance is best for Grades K - 4.
Curriculum Connections: Language Arts, Music, History, Social Studies, Visual Arts, and Performance.
Runtime: Approximately 60 minutes
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
HANGIN’ WITH THE GIANTS
JAZZREACH – NEW!
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023 – 9:45 AM
*AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2023 – FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2024**
Hangin’ with the Giants is a fun, high-energy program designed to promote the inclusiveness and accessibility of jazz while highlighting the legacies and music of some of the art form’s central contributors. Staged as a late-night talk show, Hangin’ with the Giants features animated likenesses of jazz greatest Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Theolonious Monk as show guests and offers numerous opportunities for students to interact and participate.
This performance is best for Grades 3 - 8.
Curriculum Connections: Fine Arts, Language Arts, Music, Self-Expression, and Dance.
Runtime: Approximately 50 minutes
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, October 19, 2023. (**We will try to accommodate late registrations. Please follow up your late registration, with an email marked with high importance, so that we can expedite your request.**)
RHYTHM DELIVERED
DRUMATIX – NEW!
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2024 – 9:45 AM
*AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 – MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2024**
Rhythm Delivered combines tap, drumming, audience interaction, technology, and found items to create a live a- cappella percussive soundtrack that engages the audience and immerses them in a landscape of innovative and imaginative creation.
Students will enjoy following the antics of a group of friends as they discover objects in cardboard boxes and creatively turn each one into a musical or rhythmic device.
This performance is best for Grades K - 8.
Curriculum Connections: Language Arts, Music, Visual Arts, Dance, and Performance.
Runtime: Approximately 55 minutes
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 26, 2023
EXODUS
MIXED MAGIC THEATRE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024 – 9:45 AM
*AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MONDAY, MARCH 18 – MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024**
Exodus is a program performed by the renowned Mixed Magic Theatre Exult Choir that celebrates the music that helped African Americans and people around the world on their journeys from bondage to freedom. Experience how these songs and music were used to convey messages, guide people on escape routes, lift the spirit, and offer hope to those seeking justice and to be included in the American Dream. The Mixed Magic Theatre Exult Choir joins elements of gospel, pop, rock, hip-hop, soul and blues to weave together a tapestry of music, poetry and storytelling that elevates and celebrates the greatness of the human spirit.
This performance is best for Grades 3 - 8.
Curriculum Connections: Fine Arts, Language Arts, Music, History, Self-Expression, and Performance.
Runtime: Approximately 50 minutes
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
ARE THE CRAYONS QUITTING?
NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024 – 9:45 AM
*AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MONDAY, APRIL 22 – MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024**
With a little creativity and a lot of color, Duncan saves the day!
Are The Crayons Quitting? is Newport Contemporary Ballet’s newest Family Series World Premiere Production, based on bestselling author Drew Day Walt’s book, The Day The Crayons Quit! This all-new production engages some of Rhode Island’s most talented artists, composers, and designers to realize Artist Director Danielle Genest’s vision to bring this charming, hilarious, and relevant book to life.
This performance is best for Grades 1 - 6.
Curriculum Connections: Fine Arts, Language Arts, Music, Self-Expression, and Dance.
Runtime: Approximately 52 minutes
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THEATER UNSPEAKABLE – NEW!
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2024 – 9:45 AM
*AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY THURSDAY, MAY 9 – THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2024* *
History in 50 minutes – seven actors, two feet off the ground, share 21 square feet of space and recreate the entire American fight for independence from Lexington to Yorktown. Using only the actors’ bodies, voices and (pantomimed) cannons, the show evokes an epic time-period in American history. Combining tongue-in-cheek humor with a dash of derring-do, the American Revolution displays the company’s rowdy brand of bare-boned and imaginative physical theater.
This performance is best for Grades 3 - 8.
Curriculum Connections: Language Arts, Storytelling, History, Social Studies, and World Geography.
Runtime: Approximately 50 minutes
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, March 21, 2024
THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC
BILL BLAGG – NEW!
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024 – 9:45 AM
For centuries magicians have used scientific principles to make people levitate in mid-air and vanish in the blink of an eye. Illusionist Bill Blagg’s one-of-a-kind educational experience, The Science of Magic, takes students on a rare, never-before-seen journey “behind the scenes” of the magic world. Students will discover firsthand how magicians use science to create their illusions!
Bill’s comedy-filled, action-packed The Science of Magic is designed to excite, educate, intrigue and promote students to think “outside the box” and spawn their curiosity about how science and the Scientific Method are used by magicians to create the impossible.
This performance is best for Grades K - 5.
Curriculum Connections: Scientific Method, Problem Solving, States of Matter, and Visual Arts.
Runtime: Approximately 60 minutes
THIS SHOW IS AT CAPACITY