A collaboration with NYC public school communities, Dance Makers in the Schools creates educational opportunities in which working dance artists teach children as they explore their own creative processes. Movement Research partners with each school to create a unique program that serves the school’s specific needs. The teaching artists and classroom teachers together develop lesson plans for the appropriate age group, learning level and academic environment.
Movement Research teaching artists, who have strong backgrounds in education, encourage students to approach dance as artists and explorers, using movement as a means to question and create. Students experience a fun, physical class while developing their own creative identity and working collaboratively with their peers on projects that may culminate in school-wide performances and screenings of student work on video.
