Mark DeGarmo Dance & Chelsea Factory Present: Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change
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Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2024 features accomplished NYC educators & artists discussing MDD’s evidence-based Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program’s impacts on NYC public schools & students on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 6:00-8:00 PM at Chelsea Factory.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 6:00-8:00 PM
WHERE: Chelsea Factory; 547 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001
RSVP for this FREE event: https://www.chelseafactory.org/mdd-danceedroundtable (Reservations required)
Donations: https://markdegarmodance.org/donate/
Contact: Maddie Moayedi. info@markdegarmodance.org. 713-962-7361
Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2024 explores the reasons why its Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program was deemed “a national model” by the National Endowment for the Arts. A Johns Hopkins University researcher published a 2018 study showing that MDD’s embodied cognition program’s promising evidence included “statistically significant” increases in NYC public school students’ grade 4 state reading tests. MDD annually partners with under-resourced & marginalized NYC public elementary schools across the 5 boroughs serving up to 1,000 students & 200 teachers.
Panelists (in formation): Callie Hatchett, MDD Teaching Artist in Dance & Creativity; Melissa Levy, E.S.L. Teacher, P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman Learning Center, Harlem; & Johnathan Putterman, Drama Teacher, P.S. 521 Archer Elementary, Bronx. Moderator: Kathleen Kheel, MDD Board President; Director, Discovery Programs, NYC.
About Mark DeGarmo Dance
Operating since 1982 & incorporated in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a leading NYC nonprofit dance organization based since 2001 in the Lower East Side at NYC-owned The Clemente Center. MDD’s mission is to educate NYC communities, & especially children; create, perform, & disseminate original artistic & scholarly work; & build intercultural community through dance arts. MDD commits its resources to serving anti-racism, social justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, & sovereignty across multiple fronts through dance arts in NYC, USA, & internationally. https://markdegarmodance.org, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Vimeo.
Mark DeGarmo Dance’s programs are supported, in part, by private and public funds from American Online Giving Foundation; Benevity; Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation; Bernheim Foundation; Blackbaud Giving Fund; Friends of Mark DeGarmo Dance; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Jody and John Arnhold; JPMorgan Chase Foundation; Mental Insight Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Network for Good; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York City Department of Education; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; PwC Charitable Foundation; Religious Society of Friends; Richard and Lisa Cashin Fund; Ruth and Seymour Klein Foundation; and Sarah J. Finlayson and Lindley G. DeGarmo Fund.
