Professional Learning Workshop for Educators: Camille A. Brown & Dancers (IN-PERSON + ZOOM)
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Professional Learning Workshop for Educators: Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Tuesday, October 18 | 5pm – 6:30pm EST
The Apollo’s Soundstage – Live and In-person and via Zoom
Tickets: $25
$15 for NYCDOE Educators
Presented by the Apollo’s Education Department
Led by artists from Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and building on the company's vision of fostering learning, creativity, cultural pride, and joy through the art of social dance, this professional development workshop for educators is based on CABD’s Social Dance for Social Change initiative, which reclaims Black narratives and gives African Diaspora dance its rightful place in American culture. For this event, CABD teaching artists will facilitate a workshop modeling the Company's student-centered pedagogical approach to dance training, delving into social dance’s historical context and demonstrating its efficacy as a tool to help students develop essential life skills—critical thinking, self-expression, empathy, teamwork, and self-confidence. A conversation with CABD Company dancers via Zoom will follow, with a focus on the cultural and community importance of social dance, while demonstrating how it is incorporated into Brown’s Trilogy of works on race, culture, and identity. The in-person workshop is appropriate for grades 3-12. The Zoom meeting with dance company members is appropriate for educators in high school and post-secondary education but open to all workshop attendees.
Juel D. Lane & Beatrice Capote in "ink," choreographed by Camille A. Brown. Photo by Christopher Duggan
