Program Development

Extensive work with children has shown Mr. Catanach the importance of developing programs that offer children and young adults the opportunity to create work which expresses their individual concerns. It was while working with inner city kids Mr. Catanach recognized the need to create a safe space where children and young adults could investigate issues they encountered in their daily lives and find creative alternatives to the difficult social situations in which they live.

Mr. Catanach responded to this dilemma by establishing N(o)W, the children's outreach and arts in education component of DLex Productions.

Classes and Workshops

Dance or Drama Program
8 - 12 weeks, 1 - 2 days per week (45 minute sessions) minimum of 4 days, 1 artist minimum, 25-30 students per group

Musical Theater Program
Original work or available script
8 - 12 weeks, 1 - 2 days per week (45 minute sessions) minimum of 4 days, 2 artist minimum, 25-30 students per group
Culminating in a final performance.

Other Programs Include:

Music Program
Dance/Drama Program
Dance/MusicProgram
Writing Program
Video Program
Martial Arts Program
Learning English as a Second Language Through the Arts Program
Programs for Kids with Special Needs

Please call for Artists fee quotes.

Finished scripts available for licensing include:

Billy the Kid

A Country of Children

A Weekend Ride

Billy the Kid, (A Musical):

Contemporary dance-musical based on the legend of Billy the Kid and the inner-city story of a kid named Billy. Two rival gangs are put in a theater to work together to put on a show named Billy the Kid. Everyone learns that by working together they can achieve more than working against each other and that thier destiny can be changed.

A Country of Children, (A Musical):

Kids on the Lower East Side are given a street to use as an afterschool playground. The city locks them out and they secede from New York to try to create their own country.

A Weekend Ride (A Musical):

Kids who are wheelchair bound specifically written to be played by kids who are wheelchair bound. Tamara and her friends who are all wheelchair bound always plan their weekend adventures around town. But Tamara always makes an excuse not to go. We watch as her friends and their siblings deal with home, school and convincing Tamara to get on that bus.