Introduction: We first began as a thought in 2017. By having students reflect on their day before class began while incorporating small meditation sessions, we found that students were more willing and able to openly share with their peers, let alone work together for dance assignments.
We spent 2 years working for a startup charter school learning how to teach dance on an academic level. We incorporating our small ideas into Performing Arts curriculum which helped students to navigate conflict amongst peers, stage freight while performing, and perseverance through their academic careers and personal lives."
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What We're Currently Focused On
We strongly believe in applying our core values directly into our curriculum and movement practices. Every core value has a physical target objective as well as a mental target objective. Fusing both mind and body as one allows a sense of enhanced awareness and freedom within our students. Our curriculum is aligned with the 2020 CDE Dance Standards. Each class is goal oriented with leadership building, interpersonal awareness, and physical activity!
Movement, Technique, and Performance:
Our students will learn the importance of an active and healthy body while engaging in performing arts education! Not only will they understand stage directions/etiquette, they will also engage closely with dance history and a variety of dance technique.
-Create, Compose and Choreograph:
Our curriculum requires leadership building while utilizing the arts. Students will learn what it means to lead, follow, work in groups, and generate solutions independently and using groupthink.
-Historical and Cultural Context:
From Tap, Ballet, & Break Dancing, to West African, House, & Pop Locking, dance provides a wide variety of different cultures that are infused within the movements we learn. Students will learn the cultural and historical foundations of the style they are immersed in.
-Reflect, Connect, and Respond:
Interpersonal awareness is an essential skill students must learn as they grow older. Learning self-reflective skills, how to connect with others, as well as critiquing/complementing work of their peers is vital for the remainder of their academic career.
