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Mid-year: What have we learned, and where do we go from here?

March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

From September through December, we danced.  January was music and percussion month. This last Friday, we finished a month of theatre (2 sessions of 2 weeks each).  Having played with, discussed, mastered?, explored, and pursued theatre vocabulary and skills, we’ll return to dancing tomorrow. First & second graders have now developed skills of observation, sensory […]

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Contagious fun: Liverpool Street Subway Station Dance

March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

And the whole point was to infect people with dance: Liverpool Street Subway Station Dance, on January 15, 2009 and the creative impulse behind it Watch both videos!

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ArtsTime All the Time

March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

If you live at the intersection of art and education, somewhere in Washington State, consider finding your way to Tukwila on March 20 & 21.  Perhaps Tukwila’s not where you thought to go for a refreshing break, but it’s the site of ArtsTime, a biennial professional development conference with an extensive menu of workshops in […]

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A just-for-fun video

March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Are you always looking for dance? Look here…

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FAQ: Teaching dance in a public school

February 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

I’m contacted from time to time about dancers who are interested in teaching in the public schools, wondering how to do it and how I started. Here’s an answer to one such inquiry, with hopes that it might help others who are wondering… Inquiry from a dancer, after visiting my classroom: I was unaware that […]

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Arts Worrier: teaching theatre & music for dancers

February 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

A number of years ago, when I first started teaching as a certificated dance educator, I heard someone (I don’t know who it was) say, “Every school needs an arts worrier.”  That’s someone who worries about ensuring that the kids get a well-rounded exposure to the 4 arts disciplines.  Someone who thinks about offering comprehensive, […]

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Check in on the latest TED Talks…

February 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

TED2009 is underway, with a new flock of video talks & performances to come.  It’s a good time to glimpse back at the wealth of ideas and perspectives already available. Personally, I could wish it was TEDD for Technology, Entertainment, Design, Dance.  Dance is lamentably rare in this fascinating forum. Check out… Kenichi Ebina’s magic […]

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The dance cliché — tiresome? or useful?

January 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

It depends upon who’s using it. This dance is a cliché, with verbal descriptions and video examples, tickled my brain. Clearly, dance clichés aren’t any choreographer’s goal — confirmed by the number of videos in the discussion which have been disabled (presumably because it’s not a forum in which anyone would want to find their […]

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Dance moves of questionable worth

January 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Here’s food for thought, of which I have one or two: This Dance is a Cliché.  More later…

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Conversations with India

January 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

My list of reflect-and-blog-about topics is growing, even as I reflect and blog not at all. Spare time and energy has been spent in conversations with India about my computer. The short story: 1. I moved to a laptop & iTunes sound system two years ago and love it. 2. Don’t buy a Dell computer! […]

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