Bigg Show: Trent Arterberry

Trent Arterberry: Trent Arterberry left pre-med studies at UCLA to study mime, eventually training with the renowned French master, Marcel Marceau.

In the 1970s, Arterberry combined mime and music and opened for many major recording artists from B.B. King to Spyro Gyra and the Kinks. He also opened Julio Iglesias’ first North American tour, including four nights at New York’s renowned Radio City Music Hall.

Since that time he has added new elements to the classic mime performance to create a uniquely entertaining form of contemporary, personal theater.

Along the way, Arterberry has performed for thousands of audiences of all ages across North America, Europe and Asia, and has received numerous awards and distinctions.

Description of program:

Think Bigg (grades K-6)
An exciting blend of education and entertainment that encourages children to become aware of their bodies and their imaginations as powerful tools of self-expression and communication.

It’s comical storytelling. Masterful mime. Compelling music and hilarious puppetry. Quite simply, Trent Arterberry’s The Bigg Show is something kids love—and adults won’t want to miss!

By turns, Arterberry fills the stage with a collection of intriguing characters. Roboman discovers the limits—and extraordinary reaches—of his own body. Scuba Dude fends off sharks in a slow-motion undersea adventure, only to nearly succumb to the pain of a broken heart. The three-foot-tall human puppet, Mr.Bigg, dances to a dizzying medley of musical styles from rap to Russian folklore. Through it all, Arterberry’s remarkable physical skills and irrepressible playfulness alternately inspire waves of laughter and amazement. There’s drama, comedy, subtle lessons and outrageous lunacy to spare in Trent Arterberry’s The Bigg Show.

Actions Speak Louder (grades 6-12))
Uses modern scenarios and examines how students can use their inner resources to guide them through some of life’s more difficult choices.

Alternately hilarious and poignant, Actions Speak Louder uses modern scenarios to examine how our own inner resources can help us to make the right choices when confronting challenges like peer pressure, moral confusion, dangerous drugs and coercive advertising. In the end, we discover time and again how our own powers of mind and body—balance, self-awareness, imagination and perseverance—can guide us through life’s most difficult challenges and enable us to realize our dreams.

Bigg Show Trent Arterberry

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Trent Arterberry