Ann Biddle, MA, Deborah Damast, MA & Jennifer Katz, MA
Mon-Fri, Jul 8-12, 9:30am-4:30pm
5 Sessions, $550 Until Jul 1, $575 After

The 92nd Street Y WonderDance Early Childhood Dance Curriculum encourages learning through play, providing a stimulating, multisensory and nurturing community for diverse young learners to explore and discover their innate movement capacity. Become a WonderDance educator and help children develop increased self-awareness, kinesthetic understanding, self-confidence and the joyful expression of their "dancing heart."

Bala Sarasvati
Mon-Fri, Jul 15-19, 9:30am-11:30am
5 Sessions, $185 until Jul 8, $200 after

Review the fundamental body connectivity patterns identified by Irmgard Bartenieff and codified into Bartenieff Fundamentals, to diagnose students' technical habits, strengths and deficiencies, and to develop dance coaching prescriptions and curriculum designs. Help students clarify their own technical performance, establish safe and efficient habits of dance-learning, develop their critical thinking and metacognitive skills, and set dance education goals. Become better diagnosticians and deploy more resources to address movement issues you observe.

Ann Biddle, MA
Mon-Fri, Jul 15-19, 12:30-4:30pm
5 Sessions, $375 until Jul 8, $400 after

Integrate multicultural and cross-cultural dance in your curricula with the DEL creative movement model. Analyze world dance styles, historical dances, and dance and literature connections. Design lessons using new aesthetics while examining multicultural dance models.

Tina Curran, MFA PhD & Frederick Curry, MA, CMA
Mon-Fri, Jul 22-26, 9:30am-4:30pm
5 Sessions, $550 until Jul 17, $575 after

Use Laban Movement Analysis and the Language of Dance frameworks to explore different ways to teach, learn, choreograph, perform, analyze, write about and record dance. Basic components of LMA and LOD will be applied, along with corresponding Motif Notation, in an experiential and integrated format. Participants will actively explore concepts and consider applications in practice and in connection to the NYCDOE Blueprint.