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1. To convey to students and teachers that EVERYTHING around us has sound making properties to make music and EVERY WAY we move has a capacity to be dance.

2. music and dance are CROSS-DISCIPLINARY and throughly integrate the A (ART) into the STEM manifesto.

3. to prioritize CURIOSITY, CONNECTIONS, SENSE-MAKING,COORDINATION, CRITICAL THINKING, CREATE with FUN & CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS!

Dance,Music,3D Visual Arts,

K-2,3-5,6-8,

English, Spanish, Other, 

Fluent, 

Music and Dance have been called universal languages. Classrooms switch between creating and decorating their own musical instruments and learning to play them to learning the building blocks of cultural dances, body percussion, movement & emotion. Then they then come together in a community music and dance jam!

Based on the concept that musicians from around the world make their instruments from things found in their own environments and that we all carry a dancer within us, this residency explores the fundamentals of rhythm and motion, and making music with the materials found in a typical classroom. Students construct musical instruments with recycled materials, accompany and learn cultural dances from around the world, celebrate unity and diversity at the same time, and have fun creating some unique sounds and movements. Creating homemade musical instruments and exploring motion dances offers students a chance to work towards a goal, follow instructions, add personal touches, and ultimately gain satisfaction in completing a task. Students are empowered to find the many “voices” in the instruments they have built and explore the many rhythms available in their bodies to sharing the color of their emotions through movement! The combination is pure magic!

Our residencies integrate well with Math, Literacy, Social Studies, History and Science.

• Integrates with science by situating inquiry based science instruction into a project based approach that arises from the real world.
• Creating and editing movement, musical instruments and musical compositions directly ties into the English/Language Arts curriculum and standards on many levels, from planning and composition to reflection and editing, ending with publishing.
• Encourages students to explore themselves and the world around them through the lens of dance & music, using their bodies & their own musical instruments they create as a catalyst of expression.
• Active exploration of the mathematical concepts behind rhythm and polyrhythms.
• Visual thinking strategies needed to create powerful images are integrated with aural/oral thinking strategies needed to create successful compositions are stressed using the terms, “observe, describe, and interpret.”
• Cross-disciplinary and thoroughly integrates all aspects of the STEAM manifesto.

Space: We are flexible but generally prefer one designated classroom where students come to artists. We are able to move from classroom to classroom and depending upon the residency this may be better. However, moving the instruments incurs time spent moving and this can affect session length.

Breaks: Charged as a session.

Supplies: Common school supplies, specialized supplies and found objects will be used. Balloons, rubber bands, clear packing tape, fishing line. If available tea tins or other metal cans (safely taped).

Technology: Whiteboard or chalkboard to write upon is useful but not required.