DANCE WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
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Elements of Dance |
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K-12, Higher Ed teachers |
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Understand the elements of dance and their relationship to each other as a framework for teaching. This workshop integrates LMA and Bartenieff frameworks and principles as springboards for lesson ideas. |
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| 3 to 6 hour workshop | $100 per hour * |
Dance and the Young Child |
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Early Childhood (0-8) teachers |
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Developmental movement patterns shape us well beyond the early childhood years. Explore ways of seeing healthy or inefficient movement patterns and learn strategies for supporting differing movement abilities in the classroom. |
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| 3 hour workshop | $300 * |
Developing a Dance Unit |
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K-12 teachers |
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How do you plan a unit of dance? Units can develop around concepts, works of art, student needs and interests, dance curriculum, or cross-curricular integration. This workshop breaks down the pieces of unit planning and provides guided planning time and support for designing a unit in dance. Backwards design, assessment strategies, and clear objectives are integrated into the SCEA lesson/unit design approach. |
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| 3 hour workshop | $300 * |
Functional Anatomy |
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8-12, Higher Ed teachers |
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Explore systems of movement in the body through active exploration of skeletal, muscular and nervous systems. Through proprioceptic exercises, gain a sense of your physical systems of movement and learn to articulate differences in the movement of others through these three systems. |
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| 3 to 6 hour workshop | $100 per hour * |
Dance and the Camera |
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K-2, 6-8, 9-12, Higher Ed teachers |
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How can the camera be a tool for choreography? This workshop looks at historical works and ideas, introduces participants to some basic tools of the trade, and develops a group film composition. |
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| 6 hour workshop | $600 * |
Developing a Scope & Sequence in Dance |
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K-12 dance specialists (individual or group) |
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Developing a scope and sequence that is relevant to your dance program and the needs of your students is more than utilizing what you find on the web. Through consultation, research, and collaborative planning SCEA can support the dance specialist in the development of a scope and sequence that breathes and is relevant to the students and dance culture of your school. |
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| 10 to 20 contact hours via phone or skype (or onsite) with a site visit | $100 per hour * |
* plus materials, mileage/airfare, per diem, lodging as applicable |
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Creative Dance |
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3-10 years old |
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Creative dance allows children to engage in proprioceptive sensing to explore their body moving in space with time, effort and shape, to discover, to create and to share their ideas with others through movement. Creative dance units can facilitate learning of language through its own tools as a communication process. |
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| units are 6 to 10 weeks, classes ranges from 30-60 minutes depending on age | $100 per hour * |
Dance and the Camera |
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grades 6-8, 9-12, Higher Ed |
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How can the camera be a tool for choreography? This workshop looks at historical works and ideas, introduces participants to some basic tools of the trade, and develops a group film composition. |
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| 4 to 6 class residency sessions with 1 hour per class | $100 per hour * |
Ballet Basic, Intermediate |
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grades 3-12 |
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Explore the technical genre of dance through a Vaganova style of ballet blended with Bartenieff Principles of Movement. Classes build skills in strength, coordination, sequencing, musicality, flexibility, and composition with attention to spatial intention, effort motivation, breath, and core support and dynamic alignment. |
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| class length and frequency based on needs of students and program | $100 per hour * |
Modern Dance, Beginning, Intermediate and Advance |
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grades 3-12 |
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Learn the movements concepts of modern dance through a blend of the Laban framework and Bartenieff’s principles of movement. Classes build skills in strength, coordination, sequencing, musicality, flexibility, and composition with attention to spatial intention, effort motivation, breath, and core support and dynamic alignment. |
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| class length and frequency based on needs of students and program | $100 per hour * |
* plus materials, mileage/airfare, per diem, lodging as applicable |
For more information about the dance workshops Mary LaBianca |
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