EDUCATION & OUTREACH FOR YOUTH
OBT Residency at a local school. Photo by Eric Griswold.
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS & FIELD TRIPS
Through the art of dance, OBT Outreach Teaching Artists empower children and young adults to use their bodies to solve problems and clearly and expressively communicate their ideas. By learning, practicing, and manipulating basic dance vocabulary, students build coordination, self-confidence and athleticism, as well as strength, flexibility, rhythm and spatial awareness.
Our Teaching Artists are highly experienced educators and working artists who are adept at teaching children of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and physical and emotional abilities. Our Teaching Artists help instill confidence, trust, and self-esteem in students as they experience the joy of dance. We welcome the opportunity to work with your students on either a short-term or long-term basis.
Residencies can be adapted to specific curriculum or thematic units. OBT Teaching Artists are trained to integrate dance, especially ballet and modern dance, with academic curriculum such as science, and language arts. OBT’s residencies support Oregon and Washington Academic Content Standards for The Arts.
GRADES K - 12 / Pricing
MENU OF RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS & FIELD TRIPS*
*Please contact Education and Outreach Director Kasandra Gruener if you have need for a residency that is not listed here.
Where’s The Beat?
Invite Joe Janiga to your school for a workshop of up to 3, 1-hour sessions, in which he reveals to students exciting ways to hear, identify, and count the beats in music. Joe is a percussionist, long time dance accompanist and composer of modern music and acclaimed film scores whose lively approach helps students at all levels to really feel the beat in music with clapping, stepping and other easy body movements. Borrowing from modern and classical music traditions from around the world, he simplifies counting of music to pure beats and beat cycles emphasizing recognition of the downbeat and playing with subdivisions of the beat cycles--finding the hidden math in music and the beat within themselves. GRADES 5-12
What is Ballet? Chapter 1: Single in-school workshop to learn about ballet
Push back the desks! Turn on the music! Learn about ballet!
In an invigorating one-hour session students are introduced to the art of ballet—its athleticism, grace, theatricality and history. Students come face to face with real ballet costumes, shoes, and historical pictures. Students are encouraged to ask questions during this popular learning experience taught by OBT’s Education Outreach Teaching Artists.
Residency duration: 1 one-hour session per classroom.
GRADES K - 12
What is Ballet? Chapter 2: Residency of multiple sessions to learn about ballet
Go beyond What is Ballet? Chapter 1’s introductory level of understanding. During a sequential course of study, students expand their physical and intellectual knowledge of ballet and how it relates to their cultural lives. Students will explore elements of dance composition and take their research to the internet where applicable. An optional performance completes the residency. Chapter 2 is taught by OBT Education Outreach Teaching Artists.
Residency duration: multiple sessions (TBD)
Class-time duration: 30-minute – 60-minute session per classroom, depending on grade level.
GRADES K - 12
Awakening Dancers: A Movement Exploration of the Folktale
Sleeping Beauty
Developed through the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Seminar
Artist as Educators: Planning Effective Residencies for Students
Students learn about the folktale Sleeping Beauty, its origins, and the primary components of the story. They then recreate the story entirely through the use of movement, supported by rich music and inventive props. The residency culminates in an informal presentation. Hannah Downs, professional of ballet and modern dance, brings her artistry to teaching as she engages students’ exploration of dance as a form of communication.
Residency duration is 4-6 sessions, plus a teacher planning session.
GRADES K - 5
Poetic License: Dance Inspired by Verse
Developed through the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Seminar
Artist as Educators: Planning Effective Residencies for Students
Words inspire movement during this residency where students explore figurative language and personal interpretation intrinsic to dance and poetry. After exploring basic choreographic elements students create their own dance work using the form and content of a poem as their base. Students will revise, review and rehearse in preparation for an optional informal presentation of their creation. Instructor Tracy Broyles, local choreographer and director of “Theory 1 Dance” will facilitate this integration of movement and literary arts.
Residency duration is 4-8 sessions, plus a teacher planning session.
GRADES 6 - 12
Old World—New World: Traditional Dance—Caribbean
Class begins with a thorough, whole-body warm-up, utilizing athletic strengthening exercises, yogic stretching, ballet and modern dance movements, focusing on the essential best of Old World dance. Utilizing folk dances from New World regions, students are exposed to Caribbean culture, history, and geography while they explore the unique movement, song and rhythm of the Caribbean Island of choice—Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. Instructor Jesse Berdine, who is also a performing percussionist, dances with Tere Mathern Dance. Instrumentalist and recording artist Joe Janiga will provide musical accompaniment for the classes.
Residency duration is 4-8 sessions, plus a teacher planning session.
GRADES 3 - 6 or GRADES 7 - 12
Global Jump—A Dance Experience
On this journey, students will ride movement traditions from the Sene-Gambia region of West Africa to the dances of the hip hop generation. Using a blend of dance forms and related production elements, students as a group will work together towards a common goal—creating their own fantastic dance work. Instructor Bobby Fouther, a TSPC certified dance teacher, brings over 35 years of experience as a teaching artist.
Class length—1 hour class/12 weeks, plus 1 planning session and 3 preparatory hours. (Call for alternate schedule options)
GRADES 4 - 8
Field Trip to Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Studios
Learn about a dance career and what it takes to put on a ballet. At select times of the year, student groups may tour Oregon Ballet Theatre’s studios and watch the company dancers training and rehearsing. During this hour-long interactive educational experience, students also try out a few steps and visit the costume and production shops.
Most field trips begin at 10:30 AM on weekdays. Schedule may be subject to change.
GRADES 1 - 12
2008/2009 PRICING FOR FIELD TRIPS
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K-12 |
$50-$100 |
2008/2009 SEASON PRICING FOR RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
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KEY: TA = Teaching Artist / ACC = Accompanist |
For Grades K-5: Schedule additional classes on the same day and save! Multiple class rates (taught on the same-day only): TA Only Classes = $70 per hour; TA + ACC Classes = $105 per hour
Mileage Expenses: An additional fee of 50.5 cents per mile will be charged to schools located more than 15 miles from the OBT Studios. |
Oregon Ballet Theatre endeavors to provide dance education that is both excellent and exciting. To keep user fees affordable, many programs are supported by generous donations to OBT's Education & Outreach programs.
Some additional scholarship funding may be available for OBT's educational programming. Please call Kasandra Gruener, 503.227.0977 x212, for information.
USE OF RUN FOR THE ARTS FUNDS
If using Run for the Arts funds, please refer to Young Audiences guidelines. Oregon Ballet Theatre is listed as a "Cultural Organization." Please call Kasandra Gruener, 503.227.0977 x212, for information.
