Our professional development workshops present our philosophy of arts education: integrating all of the arts with academics. We work with educators teaching all ages and stages of development, from UPK through adulthood. In addition, we focus specifically on educators of students working with Special Needs, English Language Learners, and other specialized populations.
The kinesthetic and fully participatory workshops combine basic dance skills with creative movement, drama games for self-esteem, quality music (classical, ethnic, jazz), visual art forms, focus techniques and nutritional awareness. The curriculum highlights shapes, levels, colors, and spatial concepts as well as locomotor exercises and thematic explorations.
As educators, we have special opportunities to encourage, motivate, and explore the connections between the arts and the academics with our students.
The arts fit easily and successfully into all areas of educational planning and each child should have the right to be exposed to quality arts at the earliest possible age. The arts are not frills and extras, nor are they primarily suited for only special children and populations. The arts belong in every life. They provide us with vast pleasure. They give us a stronger self-image. They open new windows on the world. They teach and enrich all at once and we become engaged and enchanted for a lifetime.
Education In Dance and The Related Arts
Elizabeth Bernard Pettit, Founder
Dr. Jo G. Frederiksen, Director
27 Barker Avenue, #426
White Plains, NY 10601
(917) 593-0964
[email protected]
New York City Department of Education
VENDOR ID: EDU 043000
CONTRACT#: Q1129BA