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SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Through these unique residencies and workshops students explore the elements of dance and choreography with HSDC's world-class professional teaching artists, developing their creativity as well as analytic and abstract thinking, interpretation and problem solving skills. Residencies focus on the techniques and processes that support contemporary dance and may also connect to many other areas of study, such as analyzing literature or exploring physics.
RELATED MATERIALS
HSDC’s dance residencies offer you and your students a fresh approach to the basics and have a proven record for inspiring improved student performance. Whether your students would benefit from dance integrated with language arts or science, or you would like to introduce creative movement and choreographic processes into your classroom, HSDC has a proven curriculum with powerful tools for student learning. Design your residency today with our highly qualified faculty.
Each residency includes:
- Curriculum Planning Meeting (2 hours) -- HSDC education staff meets with your staff to develop the goals and strategies for our partnership.
- Professional Development Workshop (2 hours) -- A two-hour workshop for your school faculty, artist partners, administrators and parents (up to 30 participants). This workshop strengthens the connections between arts and academics in classrooms, developing sequential curricula and/or integrating the arts into school.
- 10 sessions one classroom / 5 sessions two classrooms (45-60 minutes each)
- Student Sharing**
- Wrap-up Meeting
Cost
$3000.00*+
*Chicago Public Schools may apply for a 50% matching grant to help cover program costs. Applications will be available beginning Sept. 1st. To be added to the application list please send your contact information to education@hubbardstreetdance.com.
** Student sharings are not finished performances, but rather an opportunity for students to share their choreography and process with peers and/or family.
+ Additional travel costs for projects outside of Chicago.
Green your arts curriculum! This innovative approach to dance and choreography will energize your environmental curriculum and give you and your students radical new ideas for conservation. Using choreographic tools and awareness practices, students will examine how they can reduce their impact by choosing only what is necessary and reuse materials to find new and interesting ideas. This residency is suitable for grades 3-8 and meets Illinois State Goals 1.C.2a, 1.C.2b, 2.B.2a, 4.A.2b, 4.A.2c, 4.B.2a, 4.B.2b, 13.B.1e, 13.B.2d, 13.B.2f, 21.A.2a, 21.A.2b, 21.A.2c, 21.B.2, 25.A.2a, 25.B.2, 26.A.2a, 26.B.2a.
Each residency includes:
- Curriculum Planning Meeting (2 hours)
- Professional Development Workshop (2 hours)
- 10 sessions one classroom / 5 sessions two classrooms (45-60 minutes each)
- Student Sharing**
- Wrap-up Meeting
Cost
$3000.00*+
*Chicago Public Schools may apply for a 50% matching grant to help cover program costs. Applications will be available beginning Sept. 1st. To be added to the application list please send your contact information to education@hubbardstreetdance.com.
** Student sharings are not finished performances, but rather an opportunity for students to share their choreography and process with peers and/or family.
+ Additional travel costs for projects outside of Chicago.
Recharge the way you teach and assess inference skills with dance. HSDC has designed specific strategies to facilitate student development of critical thinking skills. In addition, students will have the opportunity to view, develop and interpret their choreography to support inference proficiency. In addition to exploring basic dance concepts and choreographic tools, students will participate in the Eyes See/Mind Sees© reflective process. This residency will allow the students to be authors of their choreography and audiences to each other’s work, drawing upon the parallel processes of writing and dance making. Teachers can choose from a variety of literary sources or integrate creative writing to connect to big ideas within the schools’ curriculum. This residency meets the following Illinois State Goals: 2.a, 3.c, 25.a, 26.a.b.
Each residency includes:
- Curriculum Planning Meeting (2 hours)
- Professional Development Workshop (2 hours)
- 10 sessions one classroom / 5 sessions two classrooms (45-60 minutes each)
- Student Sharing**
- Wrap-up Meeting
Cost
$3000.00*+
*Chicago Public Schools may apply for a 50% matching grant to help cover program costs. Applications will be available beginning Sept. 1st. To be added to the application list please send your contact information to education@hubbardstreetdance.com.
** Student sharings are not finished performances, but rather an opportunity for students to share their choreography and process with peers and/or family.
+ Additional travel costs for projects outside of Chicago.
HSDC’s after-school programs reflect the strengths of our in-school partnerships by aligning with our core philosophy of process-based curriculum. This program utilizes our creative choreography curriculum to allow students to create original works with the assistance of HSDC’s professional teaching artists. Each school will create an original student performance, supported by 20 dance and choreography classes. HSDC also offers after-school programming that focuses on the techniques that support contemporary dance, including ballet, modern, jazz and hip-hop.
Cost: $3000 for 20-session program
Building on our popular early childhood studio program HSDC is pleased to offer these exciting classes at your facility. For students ages 3 and up, schools may choose from weekly classes in Creative Movement or Storytime Dance. Exploring the creativity and imagination of childhood, your young dancers will delight in the opportunity to improvise, engage in creative problem solving and grow in cognitive, social and emotional ways as they interact in class. Classes are offered in 10-week sessions and may be held during the school day or as an enrichment activity for up to 15 students/class.
Cost: $1500
"The experience of having dance in the classroom broadened the school experience for my students in a variety of ways. They were able to learn movement vocabulary and apply it to new concepts. They were also given tools for creating ideas and revising them through movement, and were able to make connections between the creative process of dance and other processes such as writing and reading." --Classroom Teacher, 2010
In this one day mini-workshop students will explore the creative minds behind one HSDC work and explore the choreographic process as they rephrase the choreography, interpreting the dance and choreography based on their skill level. This workshop can be adapted for beginning through advanced students, prior dance experience not required.
Workshop Options:
Take your students' choreography to the next level! Students will learn new tools and techniques for creating and revising their work. Options also include the ability to have a work set on your students by one of HSDC’s Lead Teaching Artists. Pricing is based on length of workshop and artist facilitator.
Discover your students’ creative writing potential with an interdisciplinary workshop with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. These 40–60 minute workshops will focus on your students' creative writing process and engage them in fun and meaningful ways with new vocabulary and learning through the creative power of the choreographic process. Both you and your students will be energized by this unique approach to writing and learning.
Cost: $300/session (includes planning time with Education staff and teaching artist)
HSDC offers an exclusive opportunity for serious dance students to experience the company's studio life and repertoire. Choose between a full-day workshop with all four of the activities listed below or choose two for a half-day experience.
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Master Class- students will get a private technique class with the world class faculty of the Lou Conte Dance Studio (ballet, jazz, tap, modern, African or hip hop). Or, experience authentic Pilates with one of our certified Pilates instructors in a mat class specially geared toward your group's skill level and experience.
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Interview with the Dancers- a unique opportunity to talk with the artistic staff or dancers of Hubbard Street - and get in-depth insights into the life of these professionals and their career paths and training. (Dependent on touring schedule and availability.)
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Repertoire Workshop- gain new insights into the choreographic and performance processes behind some of the most interesting and eclectic repertoire in contemporary dance. This is a fabulous opportunity to work with Hubbard Street's artistic staff as your students learn excerpts from our extensive repertoire.
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Studio Showing- explore the life of a professional dancer by observing a rehearsal. Dancers will be rehearsing current company repertoire as they prepare for upcoming performances and tours. A unique and memorable experience!
$50/student for half-day experience, minimum of 15 students
$100/student for full-day experience, minimum of 15 students
For more information on scheduling an in-studio experience, contact
Kristen Brogdon at 312-850-9744 x123, or kbrogdon@hubbardstreetdance.com.
The creative process is at the core of HSDC’s dance curriculum, which is aligned with state and national standards, as well as the Chicago Guide for Learning in the Arts. While each residency’s specific curriculum is tailored to the partner’s need, HSDC’s Prepare, Create, Perform and Respond choreographic process is used in all residencies and workshops, providing educators and students with a comprehensive understanding of the techniques that shape contemporary dance.
For a more comprehensive look at our curricula, as well as our research, please see our Publications Page.
“HSDC’s work is about asking questions, the processes of inquiry and reflection, processes that permeate the life of an artist in any field, seeking to constantly challenge ourselves to examine the creative processes of dance and find and refine the ways they interact with the creation of the young minds we encounter daily.” Kathryn Humphreys, HSDC Director of Education.
Examples of Integrated Curriculum:
What does a truly integrated dance residency look like? Through more than 10 years of work in the Chicago Public Schools, HSDC has developed numerous engaging dance integrated curricular and thematic units, a few of which we have included below. For specific lesson plans, visit our Publications page.
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At Healy Elementary the first grade teachers were interested in exploring new ways of teaching the science and math curricula. Over three years, three different units were developed, each focusing on a different part of the curriculum and all integrating concepts of choreography and dance vocabulary. Teachers discovered new ways of exploring science with their active young students. Units included Sea Creatures, which encouraged students to explore the different physiology and movement styles of the underwater creatures they were studying; a geometry unit where students investigated concepts of shape in math, movement and visual art; a Solids & Liquids unit to help these young students distinguish the differences between matter in a solid or liquid state. Students explored these differences through defining each state of matter’s qualities/efforts and spatial arrangements of its particles, personal or shared.
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At Burley Elementary, the team created a thematic unit on Change. Students looked at how global warming changes the environment in science, how Ancient Rome changed by its invasion of Ancient Greece in social studies, how events in a story shape and change a character in language arts and how changing a movement phrase using choreographic tools creates cohesive choreography in dance.
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At Ruiz Elementary, students created complex choreographic structures to explore and explain natural phenomena such as plate tectonics, tornadoes, waves, earthquakes, etc. Working from basic vocabulary, these ESL students were encouraged to improvise to discover word knowledge and then, through revision and rehearsal, created movement studies based on their understanding of the scientific concepts
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At Pulaski Elementary, third and fourth grade teachers were interested in improving their students’ use of and vocabulary for figurative language. Students looked at exaggeration across a variety of literary styles and explored these concepts through movement and writing to create compositions that utilized opposition, exaggeration and spatial relationships that embodied the literary styles they were exploring.
“They’re shy at first to contribute, but then they see that their piece is just as important to contribute as everyone else’s, so they become more powerful and less apprehensive in the classroom to try their new ideas.”–Classroom Teacher
“Baby buffaloes are really similar to human babies. One of the things they do is play. When they play they use their whole body! They gallop! They twist! They run! And they fall! And they rise! When they play they use different forces and strengths. Their flow is very free.”–Student, Grade 2
“B.E.S.T” Dance Concepts:
- BODY
- ENERGY
- SPACE
- TIME
Parts head, neck, shoulders, arm, wrists, elbows, hands, fingers, hips, pelvis, trunk, spine, stomach, sternum, ribs, legs, knees, feet, toes, heels, ankles, etc.
Relationships over, under, around, through, above, below, between, beside, near, far, in, out, together, apart, connected, etc.
Shapes straight, curved, angular, twisted, symmetrical, asymmetrical
Balance off balance, on balance
Force sharp, smooth, shaky, swingy
Weight strong, light, active, passive
Flow free, bound
Place personal, shared
Size big, medium, small
Level high medium, low
Direction forward, back, right, left. Up, down
Pathway curved, straight, zigzag
Focus single, multi
Speed fast, medium, slow
Rhythm pulse, pattern, grouping, breath
"It takes a bigger cognitive ability to come up with a dance than to have a ballet teacher say 'Go like this' a thousand times."– Classroom Teacher
"He went from throwing the books to reading them…a lot of it was Hubbard Street."– Classroom Teacher
"It's not yours at all, but you know in some way that you enabled the students to create that work. You gave them those tools. And when they can tell you what transposition is when they're in third grade, and they can voice it to their parents or whoever comes to see them, they know what they’re talking about. That is a moment where it makes me really proud. Not of me, necessarily, but of what we did together...you've collaborated with them. You’ve given them something and they’ve given you something back." – HSDC Teaching Artist Mandy Beck
"In our writing lab…we've incorporated, as one of our assignments, a dance option for them to express whatever they’ve been studying…we're doing biographies right now and one of their choices is to do a 32-count dance that explains or helps the students understand the person that they’ve researched."– Classroom Classroom Teacher
"Being independent and not copying other people but exploring their true ideas and moving any way they choose shouldn’t be embarrassing. And it's always combined with another person's thoughts, so they’re always conversing and thinking and working together cooperatively."– Classroom Teacher
"I use it in my geometry unit in math because they can find some open-ended ways of showing some of the vocabulary… it's a good opportunity to use BEST (Body, Energy, Space, Time) vocabulary."– Classroom Teacher
"Connections between movement and our science and social studies curriculum foster deeper thinking among the students. Their hands on kinesthetic exploration of the curriculum engages students and leaves them with a memorable experience."– Classroom Teacher
DANCE FOR CPS GRANTS
HSDC is excited to partner with several funders to support reduced residency fees for Chicago Public Schools. Each year we are able to offer a limited number of schools a reduced rate of 50% off our in-school residencies, up to $1500. Applications are now being accepted. Please Click Here to download the application and return as instructed.
DONORSCHOOSE.ORG
DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that matches teachers who have classroom needs with donors who want to help. Here's how it works:
- Public school teachers post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class.
- Donors browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires them.
Post your project on DonorsChoose.org today!
TARGET GRANTS
Target offers annual grants of up to $2000 for arts education projects, as well as field trip grants to support your school attending one of our performances. Grant proposals have traditionally been accepted in March and April for programs commencing the following fall.
Ever-changing educational priorities require a constant push for more arts within schools and school districts. Below is a list of potential funding streams for our programs:
- U.S. Department of Education Title I, II, and V
- Principal’s discretionary funds
- Professional development funds
- School improvement funds
- Corporate School Partners
- Head Start funds
- After-school funds
- School and community fundraisers
- Individual donors
- PTA/PTO funds
- Community business partners
- Office of Arts Education funds