NEWS

Ware Academy is pleased to announce its third campus and community enrichment program of the school year – an adaptation performance of the Jungle Book, presented by the William & Mary Theatre Co.

The performance of the Jungle Book will take place on campus Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Ware Academy students in all grades, parents, students from other schools (including those who are home schooled) and community members are invited to attend. There is no cost to attend.

This musical version of Rudyard Kipling’s classic delights students of all ages.

Attendees will join young Mowgli as he learns the ‘laws’ of the jungle. With the help of friends like the black panther, Bagheera, and Baloo, the lovable bear, Mowgli learns about friendship and survival. Mowgli also faces his fear and foils his nemesis, the tiger Shere Khan.

For more information about the event, or to RSVP to attend, contact Ginger James, Ware Academy’s Director of Admissions and Special Events.

Ware Academy’s Fine Arts Enrichment Program runs throughout the semester. Upcoming performances include the following:

The Joffery Ballet

WHEN: March 4, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (stay tuned for specific show start times)

WHO: All grades

WHERE: Ware Academy Gymnasium

The Joffrey Ballet is a professional dance company resident in Chicago, Illinois. The company regularly performs classical ballets, including Romeo & Juliet and The Nutcracker, while balancing those classics with pioneering modern dance pieces. Many prolific choreographers have worked with the Joffrey including Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, George Balanchine, and founders Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey. Founded as a touring company in 1956, it was based in New York City until 1995. The company is now headquartered inJoffrey Tower and performs its October-May season at the Auditorium Theatre.

New England Conservatory String Quartet

WHEN: March 20, 1 to 2 p.m.

WHO: All grades

WHERE: Ware Academy Gymnasium

New England Conservatory (NEC) educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talent and deep reservoir of experience of those who teach them. NEC String Quartet is dedicated to inculcating the highest standards of excellence and nurturing individual artistic sensibility and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of human civilization, NEC aspires to ensure it a central place in contemporary society.

Treasure Island presented by Theater IV

WHEN: April 7, 1 to 2 p.m.

WHO: Pre K- 5th grade

WHERE: Ware Academy Gymnasium

Set sail with young Jim Hawkins aboard the Hispaniola for the mysterious Treasure Island, a tiny spot in the ocean believed to conceal the greatest of fortunes. On his swashbuckling adventures, Jim encounters the most legendary buccaneers in all of children’s literature: the salty Billy Bones, the blind rogue Pew, the marooned Ben Gunn and the captivating Long John Silver. Generations of children have been thrilled by this rollicking tale of intrigue and piracy, and a young boy who must learn the value of honor and decency from the most unlikely teachers. Our merry musical adaptation leaves out the rum-soaked violence of the book in favor of the fun, the action, and the moral foundation of this timeless classic.

Mosaic Steel

May 15, 1 to 2 p.m.

All grades

Ware Academy Gymnasium

This program explores the history of steel drums from its French and English plantation beginnings in Trinidad and Tobago. From its African and Island inventors, came a long and traditional musical richness that developed into idiophones, or non-membrane drums, shaped to create pitches out of 55-gallon oil drums. These instruments have been celebrated and experimented on with musical innovation, call and response, slave insurrection, and modern musical interpretations. Students will gain a rich understanding of the survival of people, the multi-cultural unity, and the need for the arts to rise above all human emotion.