Dancing Across the Divide

HOW CAN WE MAXIMIZE THIS MOMENT IN TIME FOR DANCE AND FOR OUR STUDENTS?

Riverside County Office of Education Visual and Performing Arts presents this exciting and timely professional development workshop exclusively for dance teachers in Riverside County. Expert presenter Shea New, a professor at College of the Desert and Co-Founder of the McCallum Dance Festival, will work with teachers on the following questions:

• What are the tools dance teachers are using to teach dance online? How are they different/same as face-to-face teaching?
• What are the successes that we have experienced in teaching dance online? Conversely what has not worked?
• How do we still allow for and encourage subjective interpretation of dance’s ability to express the inner qualities of
  a human being?
• How does dance and our teaching of dance fit in the conversation regarding social justice?
• How do we help our students understand the value of dance?
• How to we advise those students who wish to turn pro at this time of their education or near future?

Shea New, though a professional dancer, choreographer, producer, and educator is a lifelong learner with a Bachelors Degree of Arts in Choreography from UCI. As a successful choreographer she understood the need for support in this art form and founded The Palm Desert Choreography Festival, which is now in its 22nd year. Shea also serves as Artistic Director of the festival. Shea became a trained teaching artist in Aesthetic Education through Lincoln Center and The McCallum Theatre and an instructor in dance via masterclasses and private studio instruction in addition to serving as dance faculty at College of the Desert for 32 years.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2021
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Registration Required: No Cost
For additional information, please contact
Louisa Higgins, lhiggins@rcoe.us
Register online