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Please contact April Berry, director of education and outreach, at 704.372.0101 x109 with questions or to register.
2007-08 Workshop Dates:
Dance Educators Enrichment Program (DEEP)
Saturday, February 23, 2008
8 AM—2 PM
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Contemporary Dance Pedagogy and Choreography: Expanding Experiences
This interactive workshop explores what “contemporary” dance is all about and includes a warm-up using contemporary movement, learning a choreographic phrase from one of Dwight Rhoden’s works and exploring strategies for teaching and dance composition, utilizing contemporary dance.
Presenters:
Pamela Sofras, Professor of Dance at UNC Charlotte
Dwight Rhoden, resident choreographer of North Carolina Dance Theatre and co-director and founder of COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet in New York
Primary Educators Enrichment Workshop for
K-5 and Special Area Teachers
Saturday, March 1, 2008
9 AM—3 PM
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Who Cares?: “Seeing the Music, Hearing the Dance” - George Balanchine
This experiential movement-based workshop explores interdisciplinary topics related to dance, reading, culture, American history, and music, through George Balanchine’s ballet, Who Cares? to music by George Gershwin.
Presenters:
Cheryl Maney, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools K-12 Visual Arts and Dance Currriculum Specialist.
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, President and Artistic Director of NC Dance Theatre
Patricia McBride, Associate Artistic Director of NC Dance Theatre
This lesson plan was created by Sharon Elementary teacher Lea Harkins after she participated in NC Dance Theatre's September Primary Educators Enrichment Program workshop. The workshop was called Story-telling through Movement: Beauty and the Beast and was inspired by the Beauty and the Beast ballet.
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