The Minnesota Shubert Center is excited to announce its single session dance offerings for the 2006-2007 school year. Stay tuned for updates, as additional offerings may be added throughout the year. Please contact Melissa Ferlaak (612-465-0220 or melissa@mnshubert.org) at the Minnesota Shubert Center to learn more about these programs. Space is limited and offerings are subject to change.
About the Minnesota Shubert Center Arts Education and Technology Program
Using IP videoconferencing technologies, the Minnesota Shubert Center brings artists into classrooms throughout Minnesota, creating two-way interactive, real-time teaching environments. The Minnesota Shubert Center also prides itself on the flexibility of its programs, allowing teachers to plan sessions that are engaging and reach specific curricular objectives. Programming is scheduled when it is convenient for the participating school and does not have the high costs associated with conventional artistic residencies. In fact, these sessions are FREE OF COST to participants! In a limited number of cases we can even provide your school with the needed technology if you do not already have it.
An Introduction to Ballet
Grade Level: 4-12
Dates: January 26, February 16, March 30
Time: Schedule between 1-3 p.m.
Subjects: Physical Education, Dance
Members of James Sewell Ballet will get students “on their toes”
and moving with lecture/demonstrations that introduce students to ballet and
provide insight into how the basic partnership tools of life – communication,
coordination, cooperation, and discipline – are applied to the art form
of dance. (Limited to three classes)
Flamenco: The Music & Dance of Spain
Grade Level: 2-12
Dates: Available October-May (Scheduling is flexible)
Subjects: Social Studies, History, Dance, Music, Physical Education
Members of Zorongo Flamenco will teach students about the culture of Spain through demonstration, lecture and movement. Students will learn various rhythmic patterns typical to the culture. ¡Olé!
Modern Expression
Grade Level: 9-12
Dates: Available October-March (Scheduling is flexible)
Subjects: Dance, Art, Physical Education
Artistic Director and founder of ARENA Dances Mathew Janczewski will teach students the fundamentals of modern dance and expression through abstract movement. Mathew will have students spinning, twisting and leaping through the air.
A Stair Dance
Grade Level: 2-12
Dates Available: October-March
Subjects: Dance, Mathematics, Physical Education
Choreographed by Eliot Feld, A Stair Dance actively engages students in complex rhythms, syncopations and equations while dancing up and down the stairs. This session is conducted by Lise Houlton, Artistic Director of Minnesota Dance Theatre.
Careers in Dance Series
Do you have students who aspire to be a professional dancer, choreographer or an arts administrative job? These sessions are for you! Professionals in the field will be reveal what their careers entail and answer your students questions directly!
The Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center will bring professionals in the dance industry to your classroom via videoconferencing technology. These individuals will talk about their role in their company and students can ask these professionals questions and have them directly answered. Below is a list of the careers that are available for education sessions. Please call Melissa Ferlaak at 612-465-0220 to schedule one of these free education programs!
“I’m Interested in the Arts…What Can I DO with that?”
Kay Cummings has played leading roles off-Broadway, in national tours, stock, repertory theater, television soaps, series and commercials and has appeared in major motion pictures.
She has created and directed works performed at The Joseph Papp Public Theater, P.S. 122, Lincoln Center's Serious Fun, LaMaMa, E.T.C., Philadelphia's Painted Bride, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theatre and L.A.'s Cast Theater.
Her work has been featured on "Alive From Off Center" on PBS. Miss Cummings is the recipient of grants from the N.E.A. Interarts Program, N.Y.S.C.A., and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium. She served from 1992 through June, 2002, as the Chair of the Department of Dance of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and continues to teach choreography and acting there as well as to serve as the Director of the Tisch Dance Summer Residency Festival.
In 1996 she was awarded the N.Y.U. Distinguished Teaching Medal. She is also the curator for contemporary dance events at Symphony Space. Recent creative projects include, “Textures” for Paradigm Dance Company (NY premiere, July, 2006), creator and director for “Giggle Poetry Theatre” (currently on tour), “Surprising Symphony” for David Parker and the Bang Group (NY premiere, 2006,) and “The Nutcracker According to Mother Goose," for Zenon Dance Company (premieres Dec. 2007).
Only Available: Nov. 1,2, 14-20,27, Dec. 7-15
Artistic Director
Artistic Director, Lise Houlton of the Minnesota Dance Theatre and the Dance Institute talks to students about her life starting as a prima ballerina in New York City to her current post as the Artistic Director in her renowned dance company.
Performing Arts Presenter
Kimberly Motes became the Director of the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center in 2002. Upon completion of the $37 million campaign, the new three building performing arts center will be a flagship for dance and home to more than 20 Minnesota arts organizations and will serve as a statewide arts education resource.
Ms. Motes served as the Director of Development at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, one of the oldest producing theaters in the country and has a $12 million annual operating budget. Six years prior, Ms. Motes was the Program Manager of Performance Plus and Special Projects at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, designing adult arts education programs in ballet, modern dance, theater, classical music, and jazz that reached 10,000 people annually.
As part of this effort, she initiated a four-year national study of adult arts participation. This project led to the publication and a course for arts administrators called “Learning Audiences,” a partnership between the Kennedy Center and Association of Performing Arts Presenters.
Choreographer
Choreographer, Mathew Janczewski of ARENA Dances has choreographed more than 30 contemporary works. His continued studies of ballet, hip-hop, yoga, tai-chi and modern dance continue to influence his blend of movement.
Several companies in the United States have performed Mathew’s distinctive movement. Special projects and commissions have included choreography for the Repertory Project of Cleveland, St. Olaf College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Macalester College, State University of New York - Potsdam, State University of New York - Brockport, Carleton College, University of Minnesota, Perpich Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, and Zenon Dance Company and School.
Dance Curator
Kay Cummings (See Above Biography) will talk to students about what a Curator is and does. Only Available: Nov. 1, 2, 14-20, 27 Dec. 7-15