Our Teaching Artists Sara Pizzi and Richard Scandola have just finished a fall residency working with students at Pan American High School in Queens. Students learned and explored a variety of contemporary and street styles!
Part of VG/DE's core mission is to create a platform for multicultural understanding through dance and to nurture connections between dance creation and education. We work with local schools to increase cultural exposure for youth and communities underrepresented in the arts. Dance encourages creativity, discovery, and inquiry; students who participate in dance develop coordination, observation, co-operation, listening, and memory skills.
As a DOE approved vendor, our Artist in Residence partnerships and performances are tailored specifically to each school's educational needs.
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy's teaching artists work with the Department of Education in NYC, partnering schools throughout the boroughs to share dance with as many students as possible.
Here's a look at what they accomplished this semester, can't wait to see what they do next!
“The students who attended the classes regularly improved significantly, found a better connection with their body, movement in general, and with the music and the space.”
“I’m leaving the students remembering a 3minutes dance piece, having basic knowledge of hip hop, knowing how to count in eights, knowing steps in syncopation, moving in space, and with more awareness of their ability and the possibilities of teamwork.”