Dance Residencies

As a guest artist in schools, Barbara Pearson teaches dance and movement and helps children make meaningful connections to other areas of the curriculum. Children identify and gain experience with the basic elements of dance; they learn to warm up the body and

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to do simple dance combinations and routines; they choreograph and perform original dances and movement studies alone and in groups. Skills learned in the artistic process reinforce literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving and other learning abilities. Through movement exploration children show understanding of and give meaning to topics studied in the classroom. Music, visual arts, theatrical arts and creative writing can be integrated into the project.

View a few sample residency projects:
(not a complete list)

• Rhythms in Writing

• Meteorology in Motion

• Dance for the Physically Challenged

• The Southwest Desert in Dance

Residency specifications:
Age range:
Early childhood through middle/ junior high

Options:

• Workshops and In-service training for teachers

• Parent/Community Outreach

• Lecture Demonstrations and Assembly Programs

• Multiple Intelligence Theory and Arts Integration

• Experience with all Special and Disabled populations

Time Frame:
Minimum 5 days, but 10 or more days are recommended. Artist does 3 or 4 one-hour sessions per day. Pre-planning and mid-residency planning sessions with staff required. School needs to designate planning team and contact person. Facility requirements - large open room (large classroom, gym or multi-purpose room) with clean uncluttered floor. Group size no more than 30 at a time.

Sample Residencies
Here are sample residency topics that will integrate well with your pre-school through elementary curriculum (view residency customers):

Science

Meteorology in Motion (principles of the science of weather) Force, Motion and the Simple Machine (physics of motion) Mysteries of the Deep (life under the sea) Coyotes, Cactus, and Canyons (ecosystem of the Southwest desert) Spinning through Space (planets and stars in science and legend)