Catamounts is a Heatherwood Tradition
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May 6, 2017
Photo by Jennifer Simms Heatherwood second graders (from left) Connor Greenwood, Scarlett Vatterott, Jace Pollock, Hayden Street and Ava Garabed rehearse their bank-themed skit as part of the six-week residency with The Catamounts theater company.
Heatherwood Elementary second graders are singing and dancing about economics this spring. The students have spent the last six weeks working with professionals from the Boulder theater group, The Catamounts, to create an original, curriculum-based production.
This second-grade tradition began in 2011, when teacher Jolie Evans teamed up with her longtime friend Amanda Berg Wilson of The Catamounts to bring theater education to Heatherwood.
Berg Wilson had recently moved to Boulder from Chicago where she ran a theater group called Striding Lions. “Over the 10 years I was [in Chicago] we...
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