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Dance/Movement Arts

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Not everyone has to be Mikhail Baryshnikov or Gregory Hines to experience the joy of expression and beauty in dance!

Dancers, dance companies, and mimes encourage participants to explore how movement and gestures through space and time can relate feelings and perceptions. These professionals also conduct lectures/demonstrations and workshops that illustrate dance and movement as a means of self-expression and aesthetic awareness. The workshops may also address nutrition, geometric concepts, history, physiology, and culture.

Programs are available in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, interpretive, sacred, ethnic, folk dance, mime, and creative movement.

Literary Arts

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More than just putting pen to paper!

From the March sisters of Little Women to Wilbur the pig in Charlotte's Web, literary characters reveal their relationships, feelings, and motivations to readers. Now it is your turn to express your hopes, dreams, fears, and observations with guidance of creative writers, poets, and non-fiction writers.

Literary artists encourage participants to examine and explore the world and use different exercises to relate those observations. Class journals or programs can be compiled and shared with others. Skills in oral and written expression, listening, and reading appreciation develop as imaginations soar!

Multi-Disciplinary Arts

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Macaroni and cheese.
Steak and shrimp.
Peanut butter and jelly.

Two things that are good alone are even better when combined! Multidisciplinary artists combine at least two art disciplines in their work. For example, performances by multidisciplinary artists may blur the lines between the performing and visual arts to expose the interrelationship of each art form.

Programs include individual artists and groups presenting their work to small and large audiences in assembly or workshop settings. Multidisciplinary programs offer something of interest for everyone and provide a launching point to comprehensive understanding of the environment.

Theatre

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The smell of the greasepaint... the roar of the crowd!

When the curtain comes down on a theatre production, minds are a little more open, hearts a little more understanding.

Actors, stage designers, storytellers, puppeteers, playwrights, and costume designers share the skills and creative processes that fuel their craft. The joy of watching stories come alive helps participants understand the human experience from perspectives other than their own."

Visual Arts

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Rather than using words, the visual artist uses paint, textiles, clay, glass, or countless other materials to express emotion and perception.

You can follow the artistic process from vision to final product and appreciate the artist's tools and materials in short, informative demonstrations or day-long workshops.

By working with a professional visual artist, participants develop an appreciation and understanding of the visual medium and work with materials and equipment that might otherwise be available. Programs are offered in several areas including:

• painting
• illustration
• textiles
• collage
• sculpture
• glass
• ceramics
• wood
• printmaking
• computer graphics

Music

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A Gershwin tune may encourage you to sing.
A medley of African drums may lift you from your seat.
A Vivaldi concerto may inspire you to dream.

But a professional musician from the Artists-in-Schools program will definitely compliment your music curriculum and expand the scope of the participants' music experiences.

Instrumental and vocal, classical and contemporary, solo and ensemble performers present a rich and diverse collection to audiences of all ages. Many musicians offer workshops and master classes in addition to informative performances. These activities engage further artistic development in students who show special interest or talent.

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