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Teaching

& Curriculum Design

As a teaching artist, I am particularly interested in activating the body and imagination across all learning contexts.

My work focuses on the intersection of expressive arts, math education, and disability inclusion.

See below for a brief look at some meaningful projects!

Devised Physical Storytelling

Developed in collaboration with

Broken Box Mime Theater

BKBX invites participants to activate their instinctive fluency in body language in service of story and play.

A few partnership highlights:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado

Kennesaw State University

La Mama Gun Violence Prevention Festival

Cambridge University

Tufts University

Philadelphia Young Playwrights

Parramatta Riverside Theatres

Seattle Childrens Theater

Mathemagic Plays

Developed in partnership with

Trapezium Math

Mathemagic plays are scripted shows that are performed by K-5 students. All plays include scaffolded opportunities for students to perform mental math "magic tricks" live on stage within the context of an action-packed story.

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Mathemagic and the Techno-Monsters 

Young mathemagicians prove that the power of mental math is stronger than technology.

 

Mathemagic: SLIMEFACTOR

An underdog crew of mathletes come together save the mathemagic show from being canceled in favor of a mindless reality TV program.

Mathemagic: Time Warp

The mathemagicians accidentally discover time travel! They need need to harness their own mental math abilities as well as the help of some under-recognized historical mathematicians to return to the present.

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Invisibuilders

Developed in partnership with

Broken Box Mime Theater

Drawing upon mime & devised physical theater, improv, escape-the-room, and child-led pedagogy, the program is typically a multi-week school residency. In design, we sought to de-center teaching artists from being “the experts” while activating young people as creative collaborators.

 

Structured as episodes, each week the group is tasked with using embodied imaginative storytelling to solve an identified community concern.

Example Episode:

The Mysterious Mistrustometer

We are alerted to an alarming trend: people are becoming more and more connected to machines, and less connected to one another. The group needs to find ways to activate collaboration and build imaginative connections to the natural world so we can take down this dangerous machine!

Disability Inclusion & Access

Some favorite collaborations offering joyful, creative opportunities to neurodiverse groups:

 

Camp Paha

Theater Horizon Autism Drama

NYC D75 Schools

AHRC

Brooklyn Transitional High School

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Get in touch to collaborate

I'm based in NYC and I love to travel.

Dual citizen USA & Australia.

tasha.milikman@gmail.com

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