Enjoy a Treehouse Shakers' performance for your school or special event. For over 16 years, Treehouse Shakers has created original dance-plays for audiences of all ages. Enjoy either Animal Rhythms, Desert Travels, or Hatched for your next event. This is a great item to pruchase for a school and donate!

Hatched: Life on The Farm
Running Time: 45 Minutes
Number of Performers: 3 Performers, 1 Live Musician
Ages: 0-6 

Hatched, written and directed by Mara McEwin, is the original performance of a newborn chick emerging from her shell at sunrise to a strange and busy world. Told to the youngest of audience members, Hatched is a first introduction into the theatre, while incorporating both the museum and farm. Performed through movement, handcrafted puppets, and very little human dialogue, the story is set amidst an American family farm.

Animal Rhythms
Running Time: 45 Minutes
Number of Performers: 2 Actors, 3 Dancers, 1 Live Percussionist
Ages: 4-10 

Animal Rhythms
Two African Folktales

Animal Rhythms is an enticing performance blend of West African story culture, dance, theater and live music. Told in bright Afro-influenced costumes and enchanting animal headdresses, Animal Rhythms has audiences explore rhythms as they create the sounds of the story drum using their own bodies and are introduced to modern dance through the humorous characters onstage. Animal Rhythms is excellent for audiences of all ages, and can also be presented with workshops that include: African drumming, storytelling, and dance tailored to accommodate the appropriate age range.

Desert Travels
Tales From The Middle East
Running Time: 45 Minutes
Number of Performers: 2 Actors, 3 Dancers, 1 Live Percussionist
Ages: 5-10 

Desert Travels gives audiences a mesmerizing taste of life in the Middle East, through the retelling of two humorous Middle Eastern stories: The Rat Who Bargained Too Much and The Fox and the Stork. Desert Travels is an intriguing performance mosaic of modern dance, storytelling and live music. Told in beautiful flowing costumes, the dancers move to a lively and delicate mixture of Middle Eastern influenced music. As is a Treehouse Shakers’ trademark, audiences are led into each magical story with a five-minute movement and storytelling workshop allowing them to learn parts of the dance they are about to view.