Kaleidoscope Dancers

Mission Statement:
Kaleidoscope Dancers is our resident performing company that pprovides community based programming to local New York City school children. The company is dedicated to creating connections between pprofessional dancers and children. Through performances and movement workshops facilitated by company members, students will explore elements of choreography and will understand the art of dance-making.

What is Kaleidoscope Dancers?

Artistic Director: Deborah Damast Music Director: Pat Daugherty
Kaleidoscope Dancers is a company of professional dancers and educators that are dedicated to creating a fun, interactive, non-threatening studio environment for school children in the New York area. With Kaleidoscope Dancers, students will observe and discuss professional choreography as well as explore movement of their own. The workshop will culminate in group movement activities facilitated by our company members.

Objective
Students will produce original dances based on elements of choreography. In collaboration with our resident composer, they will create original scores to accompany their dances.

As a result of this workshop, students will:

· Experience movement

· Solve Complex problems

· Express feelings through movement

· Learn how to appreciate different forms of movement

· Develop creativity through the art of dance and music

· Develop inter- and intrapersonal skills

· Develop awareness and respect for others

Format

· Students arrive at NYU and are then escorted to the dance studio where Kaleidoscope Dancers present excerpts of a dance performance.

· Students discuss elements of the dances (what they liked, what made them different, moods presented, movement qualities etc.)

· Classes break into small groups to work with one of the company dancers.

· The groups create a movement study based on the elements of choreography.

· The students meet with the accompanist to discuss their music requests.

· The original works are presented to the class accompanied by live music.

· Students discuss the elements that they observed for each dance.

Additional Programs
Each semester the Dance Education Program produces a Friday matinee concert for local schools. Kaleidoscope Dancers introduce children to the different elements in the dances performed as well as other activities that coincide with the production.

When and Where
All Kaleidoscope workshops take place during the spring semester beginning in February.
Address: Time: 10:30am- 12:00pm
NYU Education Building Please arrive fifteen minutes early
35 West 4^th Street
Studios 305 and 304. Cost: $3 per student

Also note security procedures at the University require us to provide a list of names of all non-NYU people who will be entering the building for an event. We will need a list of all students and adults from your school who are attending the workshop.

Lessons

FUN WITH CHOREOGRAPHY

SAMPLE LESSON TOPICS:

ABA

THEME AND VARIATIONS

LEVELS

CANON AND REPETITION

PATHWAYS

SYMMETRY/ASYMMETY

RELATIONSHIPS

Dates Available for Spring 2006: TBA

Please email the following information to Deborah.Damast@nyu.edu

Workshop Date 1^st and 2^nd choice

School

Teacher contact information

Grade Level

# of students:

any special needs

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Artistic Director:

Deborah Damast 212-998-5865 deborah.damast@nyu.edu

Assistant Director

Andrea Markus

Music Director

Pat Daugherty

Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777 - New York, NY 10012 - (212) 998-5424