The North Coast Arts Integration Project is excited to be able to offer teachers and their students an audience experience featuring high-profile performing artists in a professional theatre setting.  Attending a live dance, music or theatre performance provides students with an opportunity to develop and practice skills including focus, self-control and concentration.  Framing the performance with “before” and “after” activities and discussion will help teach students how to be supportive, respectful and reflective audience members as well as highlighting curricular connections. ​

Cirque Mechanics

Humboldt Calypso Band
Cirque Mechanics, although inspired by modern circus, finds its roots in the mechanical and its heart in the stories of American ingenuity.  The shows, rooted in realism, display a raw quality, rarely found in modern circus, that makes their message timeless and relevant.  The stories are wrapped in circus acrobatics, mechanical wonders and a bit of clowning around.  The study guides below are for related shows of theirs but not specifically the 2018 show.  
Founded in1986 by Dr. Eugene Novotney, the Humboldt State Calypso Band was the first ensemble of its kind in the entire California State University system. The Humboldt State Calypso Band is a 100% acoustic group comprised of an orchestra of steel drums, or more accurately, steelpans. The steelpan, or "pan" as it is called in the Caribbean, is a highly developed instrument formed from a raw 55-gallon oil barrel.

Black Violin

Golden Dragon Acrobats
Black Violin is the blend of classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass music. Live, they are accompanied by their incredible band, featuring ace turntable whiz DJ SPS and a drummer. In the past year they have performed for more than 100,000 students.

Since starting Black Violin a little over a decade ago Wil Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester have performed an average of 200 shows a year in 49 states and 36 countries as far away as Dubai, Prague and South Africa.​
The Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-five centuries ago. The reputation of the company is solidly rooted in a commitment to the highest of production values and an attention to artistic details that is unparalleled in the art form. World renowned impresario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Chang combine award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty.​

Mariachi Herencia

Join the young musicians from Mariachi Herencia de México (ages 11 to 18) as they showcase their instruments and perform the history of mariachi music in this high-powered performance. Featuring students from Chicago’s immigrant barrios on stage, this energetic young ensemble traces their heritage and highlights their music as the newest of new mariachi.
​Use pages 4+ from the second study guide.

Che Malambo

Che Malambo excites audiences with their percussive dance and music spectacle. Malambo, a dynamic blend of precision footwork, rhythmic stomping, drumming and song, is at the heart of the gaucho (South American cowboy) tradition and is now thrilling audiences around the world with this new production created by renowned choreographer Gilles Brinas.   ​
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World of Wonder

Leland Faulkner charms audiences of all ages with the actor's imagination, the mime's skill, and  shadowgraphs or hand shadows. Leland conjures up an amazing menagerie of silhouettes using only his hands. Imagine discovering a felt ring that allows Leland to become twenty-four comic characters from around the world in a matter of minutes. Discover classical magic from the Far East as a Japanese magician lets folded paper butterflies fill the air with color in a beautiful homage to Old Japan.  www.lelandfaulkner.com