Dance TAG (Teaching Artists Group) is a collegial gathering of teaching artists for movement ideas, information, discussion, and networking. We invite artists at all stages of their teaching - rookies, veterans, people currently working or those looking for work, especially artists in schools and community situations -- who consider teaching to be an integral part of their artistic work. The sessions tend to be very inspiring and relevant for teaching as well as artistic inquiry. See you at Dance TAG………….
All PDP Dance TAG sessions are FREE !
RSVPs are appreciated:
info@philadanceprojects.org or 215.546.2552.
PDP’s Dance TAG is made possible in part support from the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation.
All sessions will be held at the PERFORMANCE GARAGE, 1515 Brandywine Street Phila PA 19130
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Sunday, February 21 1 - 3 PM
OPEN IDEAS EXCHANGE
Open conversation around ideas and resources from your teaching practice! Bring in something you have found useful, inspiring, successful in your own teaching to share; be it music, props, book, a prompt or structure for an improv or other things that motivate dancemaking. The intent is to come away with some things you can adapt to your own teaching, no matter in what kind of setting or what age group you teach.
Come ready to dance, with or without something to share.
Facilitated by Mady Cantor, Coordinator of Dance TAG.
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Sunday, March 21 1 - 3 PM
TEACHING CULTURAL DANCE FORMS Led by ELLEN GERDES
Ellen Gerdes will present a workshop on the movement fundamentals of Chinese Fan Dance in the context of considering the more general pedagogical concerns of teaching cultural dance forms from outside one’s own heritage. Her workshop will be conducted as a sample class that emphasizes attention to breath, fluidity and basic fan skills, culminating in a combination. Discussion will follow about her efforts to contextualize and embody this dance form, and her goals for her students’ learning.
Ellen Gerdes earned a B.A.in dance from Wesleyan University and an Ed.M. in dance from Temple University. Her choreographic/written scholarship is heavily influenced by her time spent living in China and traveling in Taiwan, where she researched dance. In 2007, the Association for Asian Performance awarded her the Emerging Scholars Award for her research on Chinese Yangge dance. She is published by the Asian Theatre Journal, Journal of Dance Education and Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. Ellen currently teaches as Adjunct Faculty at Temple University where she teaches a course "Embodying Pluralism" where she has investigated some of the issues in this workshop. She also teaches for Dancing Classrooms Philadelphia, and dances with the Leah Stein Dance Company. She has taught master classes in Chinese fan dance in the public schools of Philadelphia, at Wesleyan University, Bucknell University, and Temple University.
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Sunday, April 18 1 – 3:30 PM
Liz Lerman’s CRITICAL RESPONSE PROCESS
Led by Elizabeth Johnson
This session, The Critical Response Process, is sponsored in conjunction with the Bartol Foundation and open to participants from all art disciplines. (This workshop may fill up fast so RSVP, if you are planning to attend)
Join us for this workshop with Elizabeth Johnson if you are curious about opening up communication about art making, and want practice in a process that will inform your own making of art, and your ability to dialogue about creative works.
Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process advances the development of artisticworks-in-progress through a four-step, facilitated dialogue between artists, peers, and audiences. Developed almost 15 years ago, the Process has been enthusiastically embraced by artists, educators, and administrators at theater companies, dance departments, orchestras, museums and more. The process has opened new awareness and capabilities for deeper dialogue and learning between artists and audiences, teachers and students. Any combination of people who communicate about creative endeavors can benefit from the Critical Response Process. Practice the Process by applying it to real works-in-progress and to grasp its inner workings through a lively series of exercises in this workshop.
Elizabeth Johnson is Associate Artistic Director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. She is a choreographer, dancer, educator, and the director of the Dance Exchange’s Teen Exchange program. In her decade with the Dance Exchange, Elizabeth has collaboratively created dances in communities from Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, from Kyoto, Japan to Vancouver, Canada. She works with youth, seniors, religious communities, high school teachers, lawyers, scientists, and professional dancers – with a particular focus on teens and embodied learning. Her work with young people has been featured across the country as well as at home in the metro-DC area. She is a yoga practitioner, runner and rock climber and her choreographic work is driven by athleticism, physiology, and the desire to connect movement with meaning. Elizabeth graduated Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut College with a B.A. in Dance and a minor in Theatre, and has studied at London Contemporary Dance School. Recently, Elizabeth was the Dance Exchange artistic lead on the multi-media exhibit “Cells: The Universe Inside Us” at the Maryland Science Center which opened March 2009 and taught at Arizona State University as Faculty Associate for the Herberger College Department of Dance for spring semester 2009. In this position she created a site specific performance work that connected dance students with communities using ideas inspired by and in collaboration with the Global Institute of Sustainability.
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Philadelphia Dance Projects 1427 Spruce Street, Suite 1FPhila PA19102
215-546-2552
info@philadanceprojects.org www.philadanceprojects.org Terry Fox, PDP Executive Director
Mady Cantor, Dance TAG Coordinator
PDP gratefully acknowledges support in 2009-10 from: The William Penn Foundation, Dance Advance a program of The Pew Center for Culture and Heritage, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Lincoln Financial Foundation, The Samuel S. Fels Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, The Barra Foundation, Rosenlund Family Foundation, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, PA Humanities Council, The Dolfinger McMahon Foundation,Theater Subsidy Program of DanceUSA/Philadelphia and Individual donors and Partner organizations: Philadanco and the Conwell Dance Theater at Temple University Boyer College of Music & Dance.
The mission of Philadelphia Dance Projects is to support contemporary dance through Projects that encourage artists and audiences to more fully participate and engage in the experience and pursuit of dance as an evolving form.
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