The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
Professional Development
Join us for a series of quarterly professional development workshops for early childhood educators, teaching artists, and theatre and dance for the very young practitioners!
Workshops take place online (live only, no recordings). A Google Meets link will be emailed to participants one week prior to each workshop date (please be sure to check the time zone difference prior to registering).
Registration is $15.00 per workshop. Please reach out if cost is a barrier to your attendance.
Upcoming Events:
Collaborating with 1–3-Year-Olds: Powerful Partnerships in the Rehearsal Room and On Stage
7:15pm - 8:30pm Central / 8:15pm - 9:30pm Eastern
Curious about the possibilities of looking to children as experts in your own creative practice? Join Amanda Pintore for an interactive workshop focused on collaborating with very young children (ages 1-3) as artistic partners in the development and staging of new work. Dive into the creative research process behind Red, an immersive dance performance for 1–3-year-olds, and investigate the ways in which toddlers can and should shape both the rehearsal room and the performance space. Workshop participants will experience a series of playful exercises connecting these ideas with their own artistry, practice, and future projects.
Who Should Attend?
Kerfuffle's professional development workshops are geared for early childhood educators, teaching artists, and theatre and dance for the very young practitioners!
This PD workshop might be best enjoyed by artists interested in developing their own work for the first time; artists who have been developing their own work and want to learn new tools or techniques; early childhood teaching artists; artists who self-produce or are interested in self producing; emerging theatre producers, directors, playwrights, devisers, and artists, and anyone interested in the greater field of theatre and dance for the very young.
About the facilitator:
Amanda Pintore (she/her) is a director, choreographer, and educator focusing on movement and dance education, devised theatre, and making theatre and dance performances with and for 0-6 year olds. She also specializes in arts integration, creative facilitation strategies, and training in teaching artistry. She is an Assistant Professor in Theatre for Youth and Community and Acting at Arizona State University and is an award-winning author for her book Theatre and Dance with Children as Artistic Partners: Devising Performance for the Very Young. She is also a Fulbright Specialist and recently collaborated with students and faculty at Atlantic Technological University in Ireland. She has an MFA in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University.
Mark your calendars for our 2026 PD workshops:
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Playing with Partnerships: Process Over Product in Community Collaboration
Facilitated by Hannah Johnson