Universal Language: Cultures Connected Through Dance

What is the Minnesota Shubert Center?
What is the Minnesota Shubert Center Education Program?
What technology do I need to participate in an interactive program?
What is the cost of a program?
How do I schedule a program?

 

What is the Minnesota Shubert Center?
When complete, the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center will be the flagship for dance in Minnesota providing a performance, rehearsal and administrative home to Minnesota arts organizations and educational resources statewide.

A unique resource to the State of Minnesota, this three-building performing arts complex in downtown Minneapolis will be of enormous benefit to the dance community, which has long been constrained by the lack of a marquee venue and needs such a home in order to grow artistically. Focused specifically on providing services and support to Minnesota artists and arts organizations, the Minnesota Shubert Center will work to ensure that Minnesota dance and music thrives.

The Minnesota Shubert Center will also be a particularly unique educational resource, providing students throughout the State access to top dance and music artists. This programming, featuring interactive Internet-based technology, makes it possible to reach students that would otherwise have little or no access to professional artists and performing arts experiences.

As a nonprofit entity, the Center will compliment the ecology of performance venues in Minneapolis and draw its own audiences, thereby contributing to the downtown economy and helping make downtown Minneapolis a livelier, more vibrant, and safer place for families to visit.

 

What is the Minnesota Shubert Center Education Program?
Even though the bricks are not yet in place, the Minnesota Shubert Center’s education program has are already begun connecting artists with students across the State. Using IP (Internet-protocol) videoconferencing and web technologies, the Minnesota Shubert Center brings artists into classrooms throughout Minnesota, creating two-way interactive, real-time teaching environments. This technology makes it possible for students and artists to see and talk to one another as if they were in the same room.

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.

The Minnesota Shubert Center’s goal is to have a fully functioning, expansive program by 2008 when its doors open, and to continue adding schools and artists to increase the opportunities for students in Greater Minnesota to learn about and participate in dance, theater, and music. This program will also make it possible for these students (and their teachers) to have access to visiting national and international artists when they come to the Minnesota Shubert Center to perform.

The application of interactive technologies to deliver this programming will help establish the Minnesota Shubert Center as a statewide resource for arts education and a national model for effective delivery of arts and arts education programs.

 

What technology do I need to participate in an interactive program?
In order to ensure the highest quality education experiences, the Minnesota Shubert Center education programs are delivered over IP (H.323) Videoconferencing technology. Contact your school/district media specialist to determine whether your school has the appropriate equipment. If your school does not have this equipment, the Minnesota Shubert Center will provide if for you free of charge and will work with your school’s technology specialist to set it up.

 

What is the cost of a program?
FREE!!! Thanks to the generosity of the US Department of Education, Best Buy Children’s Foundation, General Mills Foundation, Excel Energy Foundation, US Trust and our artistic partners, the Minnesota Shubert Center is able to provide these services to schools free of cost.

 

How do I schedule a program?
Click here to learn more about bringing a Minnesota Shubert Center educational program to your school.