Taught by Griff Goehring and Mary Ann Brehm
Tucson Creative Dance Center
3131 N. Cherry Ave.
Tucson, Arizona
3131 N. Cherry Ave.
Tucson, Arizona
Tuition: $300scholarship assistance is available
contact mabdance@aol.com for further information and to register
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Daily sessions M-F, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm with a two hour lunch break
Follow-up mentoring program by phone and email
Follow-up mentoring program by phone and email
PURPOSE
- To cultivate the natural creative movement resources of individuals and groups
- To study and practice movement as a medium of creative expression
- To explore the use of the body as instrument and movement as the material of dance
- To provide teachers with the necessary tools for teaching creative dance
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
- Individual and group improvisation studies in the materials of dance, including themes such as:
- the kinesthetic sense as a guide for discovering movement forms
- force, time and space and their connections to drama, music, and visual arts
- organic form, where movements and themes evolve naturally one from another
- the unity of sound and movement
- dance with the environment
- building skills for group dance improvisation
- Directed exercises
- Discussion of principles of dance and how they apply to teaching
- Materials and methods of teaching creative dance and improvisation on all levels
- Adaptation of materials to specific teaching endeavors according to the interests of the workshop participants
Required text: Materials of Dance as a Creative Art Activity by Barbara Mettler (available for purchase at the workshop)
Recommended text: Creative Dance for Learning by Mary Ann Brehm and Lynne McNett (available online)
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Mary Ann Brehm, PhD
and Griff Goehring have taught
workshops together since 2007. Both were members of Barbara Mettler’s
professional groups and served as Mettler’s teaching assistant.
Mary Ann taught adult classes at the Tucson Creative Dance Center for 20 years, has worked extensively with children in school settings and been a faculty member in the Creative Arts and Learning Master’s Program at Lesley University. She is a past president of the International Association for Creative Dance and has a PhD in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mary Ann taught adult classes at the Tucson Creative Dance Center for 20 years, has worked extensively with children in school settings and been a faculty member in the Creative Arts and Learning Master’s Program at Lesley University. She is a past president of the International Association for Creative Dance and has a PhD in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Griff
has worked with children and adults in
educational, recreational and therapeutic settings since 1980. She is the
founder and director of Green Mountain Creative Dance Center in Vermont and
adjunct faculty at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. She is currently president of the International Association for Creative Dance.
HOUSING
- We recommend staying at the Windmill Inn Suites, as the closest hotel to the Tucson Creative Dance Center. It is located about 2 miles from the dance studio on a bus line. We will assist in finding roommates for people wishing to share these two room suites. There are also many other reasonably price hotels during the summer in Tucson. Please keep us informed as to your housing arrangements. the Windmill's telephone is (520) 577-0007. Online information is available at http://www.windmillinns.com/TUCShome.html
- Housing subsidies are available for participants who plan to use the workshop material in their work. Contact Mary Ann at mabdance@aol.com or 814-677-3661 for the requirements for this subsidy.
FLYER and REGISTRATION FORM
For a downloadable flyer click here
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