For Adults/ Teachers /Communities

Building a Better Team ~ Ian Beck

Through the use of games and various activities that test all of your senses and skills, learn how to work together as a team to achieve your goals. Improve listening and leadership skills while developing communication, initiative and trust, all while becoming an unstoppable team that can do anything it sets out to do!

Get Outside the Box! ~ Nicole Haumesser

You are never too old to explore your sense of play, and laughter is ALWAYS good for the soul! Teaching artist Nicole Haumesser inspires participants to rediscover their creative selves. Using guided group exercises and improvisational games, participants learn to broaden their horizons and understand the true power and possibilities that come from saying “YES”!

The POWER of saying YES ~ Nicole Haumesser

This workshop guides participants through the 4 basic rules of IMPROVISATION to encourage stronger teamwork, creativity, communications and group productivity.
Goals of the workshop:
· Foster a collaborative workplace · Stretch the individual past their comfort zone
· Enhance or strengthen vital skills (listening, initiating ideas, acceptance)
· Invigorate the Creativity within your workforce
· Strengthen communications and teamwork
· Create positive interpersonal relations
· Relieve Stress
· Have fun

Creative Classroom ~ Nicole Haumesser and Joyce Bonomini

Classroom management tools with a creative twist. Theater exercises, classroom structure and visual art
projects that will help you turn your classroom into a “creative learning environment.”

Kiss Your Worries Goodbye! ~ Emily Harris

NO MORE STRESS! A whimsical workshop based on Guatemalan Worry Dolls
who are known to solve your problems while you sleep. While participants focus on scraps of fabrics, snippets of yarn, assorted beads and pipe cleaners a relaxed and safe space opens where conversations, stories, and new ideas can be shared. Listen carefully because your little dolls may have a story or two to tell! Rediscover your creative self while you kiss your worries goodbye! Excellent for ICE BREAKER.

Zumba Gold ~ Liz Quiñones

“I can’t dance, but I can Zumba!” Why are these people smiling while exercising? Because Zumba Gold takes all the excitement from the original Zumba class and introduces it to beginners, older active adults, and seniors. This workshop is a well-rounded fitness program utilizing the five components for success: warm-up, flexibility, cardio, resistance, and cool-down. Let Liz help your group feel stronger, younger, happier and healthier while dancing to merengue, salsa, mambo, bachata, cha cha, cumbia, flamenco, tango, and rock ‘n’ roll. Who says exercise can’t be fun?

Can You Say Smoothie? ~ Blue Feliu and Freddy Montes

This workshop will have your feet tapping to the rhythms of Cuba, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Get your dancing shoes ready…

Literature, Come Alive ! ~ Adrienne Nadeau

Learn new techniques that encourage teens to explore literature through spoken word poetry, the craft of performance poetry, which combines classic literary devices with current teenage appeal.

DRUMMING is FUN! ~ Giving Tree Music
We will bring a drum for everyone and facilitate a cohesive musical experience with you and your team. All events are tailored to your specifications including buzzwords and themes from your organization. We will use drumming as a vehicle for creating synergy and discover how to come from a "place of play" while working. We will talk about the metaphorical similarities between a drum circle and your work environment by demonstrating how a group can come together to create one fluid experience with the sum being larger than the individual parts.
Goals of workshop:
· Strengthen communications
· Build team work
· Energize
· Empower
· Have FUN

MEDIA ON STAGE (for teachers) ~ Wilson Loria

Using media (newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, Internet), participants learn to apply Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed techniques in the classroom environment. Mr. Boal was a renowned Brazilian theater theorist.

Presentation Training ~ Peggy Sheffield

Public speaking can be stressful. Verbally communicating ideas in general can be a challenge. At best we often walk away wondering what we could have done to have been more effective, to have made the most of the opportunity. Some feel they need to create a strong stage persona to be effective, others don’t feel they need to do much of anything beyond sharing the information before them. If you’ve ever been an audience to either you already know neither approach works as intended. They don’t fully engage or inform us, even if the information itself is something of great interest. Why? What works in a conference room with 3 people will not produce the same results in a larger venue, particularly if that venue includes screens and close-ups. Making the most of a presenter’s individual strengths and identifying their weaknesses is imperative to truly becoming an engaging and effective speaker, whatever the size of the room or audience.
Goals of workshop:
· Improve body language
· Ease nerves
· Utilize voice, breath, and speech fundamentals
· Reading an audience, making adjustments
· Personal appearance for optimal impact
· Video-taped training sessions

Whether it’s on stage or in a boardroom, Presentation Training will work with individuals or groups to build strong communication skills which will effectively convey your message. We’ll optimize your presentation, and work with you to customize an appropriate training session to achieve your specific goals.

Corporate Training

BUILDING a BETTER TEAM ~ Ian Beck

This workshop test all participants’ senses and skills as they learn how to work together as a team to achieve your goals. Improve listening and leadership skills while developing communication, initiative and trust, all while becoming an unstoppable team that can do anything it sets out to do!
Goals of workshop:
· Deepen introductions
· Build trust
· Learn to develop consensus
· Improv communications
· Create a unified team

The POWER of saying YES ~ Nicole Haumesser

This workshop guides participants through the 4 basic rules of IMPROVISATION to encourage stronger teamwork, creativity, communications and group productivity.
Goals of the workshop:
· Foster a collaborative workplace
· Stretch the individual past their comfort zone
· Enhance or strengthen vital skills (listening, initiating ideas, acceptance)
· Invigorate the Creativity within your workforce
· Strengthen communications and teamwork
· Create positive interpersonal relations
· Relieve Stress
· Have fun

The Other 90%: Unleashing the Power You Possess ~ Denise Oatley Hall

A must-have for every business. Using hypnosis, neural linguistics, laughter and audience participation, Denise Oatley Hall unleashes the brain power of your team to achieve record breaking results, greater cohesion and top-tier success. Innovative, fun and effective. Excellent for executives, management, sales or customer service teams.

Kiss Your Worries Goodbye! ~ Emily Harris

NO MORE STRESS! Learn how to let go or rise above the minutia, utilizing an ancient creative outlet: the Guatemalan Worry Doll.

Presentation Training ~ Peggy Sheffield

Public speaking can be stressful. Verbally communicating ideas in general can be a challenge. At best we often walk away wondering what we could have done to have been more effective, to have made the most of the opportunity. Some feel they need to create a strong stage persona to be effective, others don’t feel they need to do much of anything beyond sharing the information before them. If you’ve ever been an audience to either you already know neither approach works as intended. They don’t fully engage or inform us, even if the information itself is something of great interest. Why? What works in a conference room with 3 people will not produce the same results in a larger venue, particularly if that venue includes screens and close-ups. Making the most of a presenter’s individual strengths and identifying their weaknesses is imperative to truly becoming an engaging and effective speaker, whatever the size of the room or audience.
Goals of the workshop:
· Improve body language
· Ease nerves
· Utilize voice, breath, and speech fundamentals
· Reading an audience, making adjustments
· Personal appearance for optimal impact
· Video-taped training sessions
Whether it’s on stage or in a boardroom, Presentation Training will work with individuals or groups to build strong communication skills which will effectively convey your message. We’ll optimize your presentation, and work with you to customize an appropriate training session to achieve your specific goals.

DRUMMING is FUN! ~ Giving Tree Music

We will bring a drum for everyone and facilitate a cohesive musical experience with you and your team. All events are tailored to your specifications including buzzwords and themes from your organization. We will use drumming as a vehicle for creating synergy and discover how to come from a "place of play" while working. We will talk about the metaphorical similarities between a drum circle and your work environment by demonstrating how a group can come together to create one fluid experience with the sum being larger than the individual parts.
Goals of workshop:
· Strengthen communications
· Build team work
· Energize
· Empower
· Have FUN

Zumba Gold ~ Liz Quiñones

“I can’t dance, but I can Zumba!” Why are these people smiling while exercising? Because Zumba Gold takes all the excitement from the original Zumba class and introduces it to beginners, older active adults, and seniors. This workshop is a well-rounded fitness program utilizing the five components for success: warm-up, flexibility, cardio, resistance, and cool-down. Let Liz help your group feel stronger, younger, happier and healthier while dancing to merengue, salsa, mambo, bachata, cha cha, cumbia, flamenco, tango, and rock ‘n’ roll. Who says exercise can’t be fun?

Can You Say Smoothie? ~ Blue Feliu and Freddy Montes

This workshop will have your feet tapping to the rhythms of Cuba, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Get your dancing shoes ready.

Performances

YES Men/Improvable IMPROV Co.

High energy, quick witted fun is what you’ll get with the YES Men Improv Company. They can perform an action packed IMPROV show or DESIGN a performance just for you. Successful events have been presented with a focus on a company product line, the importance of Teamwork, and keys to Customer Service, to name a few. Your company dinner will never be the same again!

Musical Martini~ Absolute Broadway with a Splash of Opera and a Twist of Rock!
Featuring Elissa Stone, soprano, and Edvard Crader, tenor.

Two of Ruth Eckerd Hall’s own with international performance experience share favorite selections from a potpourri of genres for an evening of musical merriment. Their diverse offerings, stunning voices and masterful musicianship are sure to offer something for everyone! Relax in our cabaret setting and enjoy this musical smorgasbord. The show title says it all!

Freddy Montes TRIO

A longtime favorite on the Florida Latin music scene, this ensemble delights audiences, blending traditional Cuban songs and authentic Afro-Cuban rhythms with today’s original jazz arrangements. The band delivers Cuban and American music standards with a touch of style, heart pumping rhythms and an eclectic harmonic sound.

Arioso String Quartet
Presented by: Lei Liu, Nancy Chang, Karl Bawel and Lowell Adams, members of The Florida Orchestra

Arioso String Quartet offers an exceptional opportunity to introduce students to a diverse repertoire of music presented by talented, seasoned professionals from The Florida Orchestra. From Bach to Scott Joplin, Gershwin or big band favorites, students have the rare experience of superior quality music and an opportunity to explore their own creative abilities in the local school setting.

Song Styling’s of MELODY Craven

Melody offers a sampling of the best of Broadway and favorite standards. Ms. Craven has performed throughout the Tampa Bay area for 28 years and toured with Eckerd Theater Company for ten seasons. Her personal warmth and unaffected nature, clear love of her art, and crystalline voice are an irresistible combination.

Lucid Druid - Traditional Celtic Music

Eclectic World-Fusion Music is one way to describe the multi-faceted, jam-induced music of Lucid Druid. Highlighting the original compositions of two-time World Champion bagpiper Adam Quinn, the band is composed of 5 core members who integrate the sounds of bagpipes, guitar, stringed bass, didgeridoo & Scottish snare with a variety of African drums, creating their own unique sound that is energetic and ground-breaking. Quinn’s powerful, melodic compositions are the cornerstone for the captivating “lucid” sounds produced by this band. Their unusual arrangements and exploratory jams make their music truly un-comparable to anything else being produced today in the genre of Celtic Fusion.

The One and Only Owen

Puppet story presentation and audience discussion from the imagination of teaching artist Nicole Haumesser comes a delightful musical tale about a young earthworm, Owen, and his struggle to find his place in the hustle and bustle of daily garden life. Students learn about finding their unique talents through singing along to the performance, exploring storytelling through puppetry, discovering how to create characters from the world around them, and learning how to make puppets come to life on stage.

Dundu Dolé Urban African Ballet Company

Dundu Dolé Urban African Ballet Company, clad in authentic costumes, takes your students on a journey complete with the power of African drums, stories, dance and song while exposing them to the roots of many uniquely American styles.
Price is determined by size of venue and number of performers, which can range from a company of ten to a full company of twenty five. Workshops are built to suit your student and curriculum needs and interests. Combination workshops include African and African American folklore, drumming, crafts, dancing and singing, or you may simplify your workshop to encompass only one area.

Partners in MOTION ~ REVolutions Dance

Dance is an opportunity for artistic expression. Students work with REVolutions dancers and each other to discover new inspirations for movement. They enjoy learning dance and self expression while gaining a unique perspective on living with a disability. Students are encouraged to ask questions and think critically in the process of exploring their own creativity. REVolutions Dance Inc. is a professional dance company comprised of dancers with and without disabilities. Their goal is to promote diversity and entertain audiences with exciting, thought-provoking performances that capitalize on the artistic abilities in everyone.

The Sounds Of Story
Sarah Fady and Emily Harris

The hammered dulcimer, while not as universally recognized as the drum or guitar, has quite an extensive history. Both story and music evoke feelings and visions. A collaboration of these art forms create a moving and powerful experience. Surrender to the soothing sounds of this ancient instrument as musician Sarah Fady and storyteller Emily Harris guide you on a magical journey through the diverse lands and cultures where this instrument has made its home. Destinations include Appalachia, the British Isles, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.

Poetic Mayhem

Your stage or auditorium will become an inferno of energy, ideas and language as diverse artists perform inspiring, entertaining and thought-provoking spoken word and slam poetry.
Capacity: No limit for performance or lecture. Workshops are limited to 35 students.