Dramatise a story with music! In Danny’s musical storytelling workshops, students from preschool through elementary explore how music and instruments can be incorporated in storytelling. Students participate in a variety of fun and engaging activities that help develop language, musical, and dramatic skills, including:

• Learning how dynamics, tempo, pitch, and instrumentation can be used in a theatrical setting to make a performance more dramatic and exciting.
• Practicing simple rhythms and polyrhythms, and learning how to produce different tones on hand drums and other instruments.
• Participating in interactive group performances of well-known stories, during which they will need to respond to musical and dramatic cues.
• Learning new songs and dances that go with familiar stories.
• Thinking about and creating musical effects to represent characters and events in a story.
• Exploring how music can be used to express emotions and ideas, and discovering new approaches and techniques for musical composition.
• Working in small groups to compose and perform their own musical story.

Danny also gives musical storytelling workshops for students learning English as a foreign language.