Outreach Program
The Dancing Arts Center is glad to offer dance programs for community organizations: These programs can be offered for a 6 week introductory basis or longer. After the first session, follow up sessions can be added. Our fee is $50 per hour as we supply all equipment and insurance. Feel free to contact me to shape the program to your program’s needs.
The Dancing Arts Center’s outreach teaching experience is extensive. In addition to the Dancing Arts Center in Holliston, the list includes: Joy of Movement Center, Edgebrook School, Hudson Youth Center, Margaret Davitt Children's Center, Framingham Park and Recreation, Holliston Extended Day, Millis Extended Day, Dover/Sherborn Extended Day, Wayland Park and Recreation, Holliston Community Day Center, Next Generation Nursery School, Medfield Park and Recreation, and (yes) Pincushion Montessori School.
Creative Dance can be combined to include all 3 - 7 year olds in one class or differentiate according your school’s groupings. Creative movement is a special program of one or two classes per week for young boys and girls, who love to run, jump slide, spin and swing to music. Please see our general course description and faculty biography accompanying this letter.
The curriculum presents and explores the following (with attention to detail and complexity at every advancing age):
- Body parts: whole and isolated body parts, leading and initiating with a part.
- Time: quick, slow, clock time, and rhythmic time.
- Space and pathways: personal, general space, air and floor designs, direct, indirect, straight, twisted, bent, narrow and wide
- Directions: toward floor, ceiling, walls and distance.
- Levels and direction of focus: high, middle, and low.
- Weight: heavy, light, strong, gentle, tense, and relaxed.
- Locomotion: walk, leap, run, hop, jump, skip, gallop, stride, slide, and roll.
- Action: thrust, slash, press, wring, float, flick, tap, and glide.
- Flow: sudden, sustained, successive, simultaneous, bound, and free.
- Shape and size: drawing shapes in space, becoming shapes.
- Awareness of others: partners, groups: large and small.
All possible progressions include: march, skip, jump, tip toe (all forward, backward, and turning), side gallops, leaps, free dance, prop use, instrumental use: beat, accent, tempo, duration, and patterns.
Modern Dance for ages 6 – adult is another good option for community outreach classes. It is an eclectic curriculum that draws from and builds on the styles and philosophies of modern dance pioneers. Improvisation is an essential aspect of our modern classes, providing students with opportunities to explore the subtleties of movement dynamics, dimension, and quality. Choreography and composition analysis are natural outgrowths of improvisational projects.
Please fill out the enclosed request form if you are interested in an inspiring dance program for your school.
