Natasha Mirny

Natasha Mirny is a teaching artist who works with children from 7 months to 18 years old. She creates Arts Integration residencies at schools. Each residency addresses the needs of a particular classroom, it is a unique experience that is custom made to help teachers with the challenges in their classrooms by introducing theater, creative movement and puppetry techniques as the classroom tools for transitions, enhancing learning and engagement.

Interactive show about the life cycle of a bird for children from 6 months to 6 years old
In a nest in a tree, an egg is kept warm. Then a Baby Bird hatches! The Baby is fed and nurtured by... the Forest Fairy, and both the Baby and the Fairy begin to explore what it means to grow up, and to learn how to fly, and what it means to be a parent. They feel sunshine and rain, smell flowers, taste berries, and see butterflies. There are surprises. One day, the Baby learns to spread its wings and fly. Take the journey with your own Baby Bird!

Where do words and letters go, after we say them, do you know? Some of them turn into shadows and dance and play in my House of Light!

This is the story of a secret House of Light, where Letters and Words live, play and create stories. Shadow letters turn into shadow characters, shadow characters come out of a shadow house and turn into flat puppets. What do we do, if A -angel falls asleep and its W-wings fly away? Angel and Boy and we all will go on a journey to find the Wings. Together we will run, jump, learn some pantomime moves, recall the alphabet and use our imagination to turn letters into character! And of course we will find the wings, and in the end tired and happy Letters will return home and… fall asleep: Z-Z-Z-Z...


Goals and Objectives:
- Introduce shadow puppets as a literacy and science teaching tool
- Introduce and/or recall alphabet
- Introduce object transformation (letters into characters) as a great problem solving tool and a foundation for coding and decoding skills (basic reading and math skills)
- Social-Emotional context - helping your friends