Residency Work

Hartford University School for Urban Exploration, year long residency for K3 to 4^th grade.

DanceCircus artist-educators provide a warm-up for strength building, flexibility, coordination of body parts, endurance training and  safety (injury prevention). Within the discipline of each dance form (African,  Ballet, Capoiera, Choreography, Creative Movement-Environment, Creative  Movement-Storytelling and Hip-Hop), elements of time, spatial awareness, body  actions, efforts/energy control are core concepts underlying patterns of music/rhythms, movement sequencing and relationships. (October-May)

Contact us for more information about Artist Working in Education (AWE) or Arts @ Large and for information on underwriting DanceCircus integrated Arts-Curriculum educational programs in your school or inspiring, energizing workshops in your community agency or center.

In a dance residency, students learn to connect motions and emotions, words and actions to create dances of beauty and power. Residency concepts blend curriculum with DanceCircus performance concepts such as ecology and environment (science and geography), original stories and adapted folktales (literature and history), and using story circle to create life stories (social studies). Basic movements – jump, turn, travel, fall, roll, stop/balance and gesture – combined with paired efforts — fast/slow, powerful/delicate, free/rigid and focused/wandering – help students develop self-control and establish safe boundaries for the group.

An ARTIST-EDUCATOR, Betty Salamun brings 36 years of innovative outreach programs, nationally recognized community workshops and cross-curricular school residency programs to her work with students, people in the community and artists on stage. Betty received the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education’s “Non-Formal Educator of the Year” award and the Wisconsin Dance Councils Outstanding Achievement award.

In School Residency Programs students create dances and performance events as they explore the environment (how animals, birds and sea creatures move including life cycles, habitats, the food chain, pollution, etc.) and dance literacy (moving haiku poems, spelling lists, subject/content, etc) developing thier own expressive style.

Outreach performances adapt to and interact with students, families and general audiences.

Assessment and Teacher In-Service training. For schools, school districts, artists, teachers, parents, administrators, in practical ways to implement multiple intelligences.