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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Mid-year: What have we learned, and where do we go from here?
March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:getting started·intermediate·management·primary·students·teaching
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!
Tags:culture·music·performance
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 […]
Tags:assessment·choreography·curriculum integration·PD·standards·teaching
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 […]
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, […]
Tags:assessment·curriculum·curriculum integration·logistics·music·percussion·schedule·teaching·theatre
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]