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Dancing Through American History

by  Rhythmically Speaking Dance Company

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In this vibrant offering, students get to experience relationships between themselves and others, jazz music and dance, and American history, through exploring simple, grooving rhythmic movements and using them to interact with one another and improvise. Learn how jazz was born from a combination of African and European movement styles to create a uniquely American approach to dance. This offering is great for history and music classrooms, dance programs, libraries, senior care facilities and anyone curious about jazz!

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About This Program

Cost

By Request: $175.00
By Request Premium: $150.00



Length

45 minutes to 1 hour


Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) Pre-K Students, Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Teacher(s)/Educator(s), Adult Learners, Homeschool/Family Public Library: Library Patrons

Minimum participants:

1

Maximum participants:

There is no maximum, but for optimal interactivity, we suggest no more than 50 participants.


Primary Disciplines

Art, Culture, Dance, Health & Physical Education, Performing Arts, Social and Emotional Learning( SEL), History & Social Studies


Program Delivery Mode

Zoom, Google Meet or client-run videoconferencing



Booking Information

This program can be purchased as a single session or a series of sessions, tailored to the client's goals.

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Provider's Cancellation Policy

We will not charge for programs cancelled due to nature i.e. snow days. The full fee will be charged to clients that cancel with less than 48 hours notice.

About This Provider

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Rhythmically Speaking Dance Company

St. Paul, MN
United States

Rhythmically Speaking is a Twin Cities, Minnesota-based 501(c)3 nonprofit dance organization with a mission to spark vibrancy and connectedness through jazz and American social dance ideas. Driven by the rhythm that is at our shared human core, we have been cultivating vibrant, embodied human connection since our founding in 2008. Touted by Dance Magazine as “revitalizing jazz dance in the Twin Cities area,” we are the only organization in Minnesota and one of few in the nation dedicated to creating, presenting and conducting education-based outreach work inspired by jazz and other American social dance ideas including tap, hip-hop styles, and many others. We fulfill our mission through performance and education-based outreach programming.

Our education-based outreach programming serves school-age students, senior care facilities, professional development trainings, libraries and community events. All of our education programs can be tailored to serve goals that are based in arts education (i.e. fundamental, practical skills for arts creation and presentation) or arts integration (i.e. use of creative strategies to teach core curriculum, offering students multimodal learning experiences). More specifically, our specialties are often best-suited to music, social studies, history, language arts, art and health/ physical education learning for K-12 students, as well as culture, problem solving, social/ emotional learning, leadership and personal/ professional development, for this and the other listed populations of learners.

Contact:
Erinn Liebhard
rhythmicallyspeakingdance@gmail.com
612-419-5549

Program Details

Format

This offering can be formatted to be one session or several, tailored to various age and experience levels and the client’s desired interests and outcomes - including arts-integrated learning, and structured to focus mostly on movement or a mix of kinesthetic and lecture-discussion-based learning. Potential movement-based activities include a warm-up, learning about selected concepts and steps, and a movement combination linking them all together, with historical and sociocultural information shared along the way. Potential lecture and discussion-based sessions will include video offerings and conversation prompts. Assessment measures can be included if desired.

Objectives

- Exploring connections between one’s own body and various styles of music while sharing space and expression with others;
- Learning about basic social dance steps and styles from several eras of American history;
- Contextualizing these styles within the historical development of the United States.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

U.S. History:
- Common Core 1: Chronological thinking.
- Common Core 2: Historical comprehension.
- Common Core 3: Historical analysis and interpretation.
- US History Content: Era 8 & 9

Physical Education:
- Standard 1: Develops a variety of motor skills.
- Standard 2: Applies knowledge related to movement and fitness concepts.
- Standard 3: Develops social skills through movement.
- Standard 4: Develops personal skills, identifies personal benefits of movement and chooses to engage in physical activity.

Dance and Music:
- Anchor Standard 1 (Creating): Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- Anchor Standard 7 (Responding): Perceive and analyze artistic work.
- Anchor Standard 11 (Connecting): Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.