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Notes In Motion Unveils 2024/25 Education Programs
Programs include: physical dance classes, small group creative exploration, critical feedback, work sharing, and more.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Dec. 13, 2024
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre's dance education program, Notes in Motion, offers Community and Family Programs, Events and Performances on evenings and weekends. These programs include multi-cultural workshops in different dance styles and techniques, get moving programs, faculty engagement, professional dance performances from Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre with artist talk-backs, nutrition and lifestyle coaching - interactive learning that multi-generations experience together.
Programs include: physical dance classes, small group creative exploration, critical feedback, work sharing, work time, props, costumes, live and recorded music, and writing exercises. Community programs can be linked to community goals, challenges, and social issues or organize around the process of making dance theatre. Most community programs culminate in a performance presentation created by program participants. For more info, visit https://notesinmotion.org/school-programs/community-events-and-performances/.
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre also performs selections from its rich repertory at our partner schools for school assemblies or as part of a Community Out-of-School Time Program. Some performances are followed by a workshop or discussion about the content of the performance, careers in dance, as well as training, rehearsing, and understanding the process of creating dance. Since 2000, Notes in Motion/Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre has partnered with 140 New York City schools to bring inclusive dance education programs to thousands of underserved 3K-12th grade students throughout all 5 boroughs. Each program is tailored to the specific needs and population of each school, guided by Notes in Motion's singular approach to arts education: the Movement Exchange Method which combines technical dance instruction with creative skill building and collaborative learning. Programs foster self-discovery, risk-taking, and leadership development - vital life skills that have faltered during the pandemic which dance education nurtures by design. For more information, visit https://notesinmotion.org/school-partners/.
"From the inception of Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, I have been driven by the vision that you cannot create dance in the now unless you are thinking about audiences of the future."
-Amanda Selwyn, Artistic/Executive Director
Upcoming Events
Pay it Forward: School Partner Gratitude Event
Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, NYC
December 4, 2024
Family Engagement Event: Yoga Workshop for Parents
PS 18 Bronx
December 12, 2024
Family Engagement Event: Yoga Workshop for Parents
PS 18 Bronx
February 13, 2025
Family Engagement Event: African, Latin, and Hip Hop
Cypress Hill Collegiate Prep. School Brooklyn
March 1, 2025
Dance Around the World: Multi-Cultural Dance Workshops
MS 409 Brooklyn
April 11, 2025
Family Engagement Event: Yoga Workshop for Parents
PS 18 Bronx
April 21, 2025
Family Engagement Event: Yoga Workshop for Parents
PS 18 Bronx
June 9, 2025
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