Dance

Posts about dance as an art form in education

Announcing Seven New Recipients of the Young Audiences National Teaching Artist Credential

Sep 23, 2022 | emily@ya.org

  Young Audiences Arts for Learning (Young Audiences) is thrilled to announce seven new recipients of the Young Audiences National teaching Artist Credential (TAC): Joseph Dixon, Janet Erlick, Ali Hoefnagel, Sarah Grace Jackson, Barry Stewart Mann, Melissa Kate Miller, and Karim Nagi. The TAC initiative was conceived by a working…

Arts & Learning Conservatory's Gospel Voices of OC: A Joyous Juneteenth Celebration

Jul 19, 2022 | lauren@ya.org

Young Audiences affiliate Arts & Learning Conservatory (ALC), based in Costa Mesa, CA, presented Gospel Voices of OC (Orange County) last month to celebrate Juneteenth. The staged performance spotlighted African American accomplishments and excellence through the lens and the influence of gospel music as a source of historical impact and resiliency.  …

Young Audiences Arts for Learning National Teaching Artist Credential: 2022 Application Now Open

Sep 15, 2021 | emily@ya.org

Young Audiences Arts for Learning (YA) is pleased to announce that the 2022 National Teaching Artist Credential application is now available on Learn.YA.org.  The National Teaching Artist Credential (TAC) articulates what effective, high-quality teaching artistry looks like in K-12 school-based residencies, and formally endorses exceptional teaching…

Young Audiences Arts for Learning Welcomes Arts & Learning Conservatory as New Southern California Affiliate

Jun 30, 2021 | emily@ya.org

New York, New York—Young Audiences Arts for Learning (Young Audiences), the nation’s largest arts-in-education network, is proud to announce the addition of its newest affiliate, Arts & Learning Conservatory (ALC). Based in Cosa Mesa, CA, ALC is dedicated to bringing high-quality, accessible, and equitable performing arts to children throughout Southern California. Each year…

Arts ARE Education: Resolving to Support Arts Education Funding and Programs in the Post-Pandemic Era

Feb 9, 2021 | lauren@ya.org

Young Audiences Arts for Learning is proud to be part of a new national campaign in support of arts education for all students, Arts ARE Education. Led by the national leadership organizations of the National Coalition of Core Arts Standards, Arts ARE Education builds off the momentum of last year’s “Arts Education Is Essential” unified statement, which was signed by 113 national organizations …

Arts for Learning: Amazing Experience for fifth graders - and their teacher

Sep 9, 2016 | jarred@ya.org

  Jen Lawson  Teacher at Hillside Elementary School in Fulton County, Georgia. Jen was one of a handful of fifth grade teachers who were the first to be trained in implementing Unit 6: Authors and Actors, in the Arts for Learning program, at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. Unit 6 gives students the tools to explore experiences in their own lives and to communicate their…

Young Audiences Gala After Party 2014

Nov 14, 2014 | jarred@ya.org

                                          Purchase Tickets Now and Join the Party!                                And check out the images from last year's festivities: New Gallery 2014/11/14Gala Photoflash 9cameramake Canonheight 3744camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop Lighoriginaldate 11/22/2013 5:24:11 AMwidth 5616cameramodel Canon EOS 5D Mark IIGala…

A Passion for Dance: An Interview with Sarah Haykel

May 10, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

                Sarah Haykel has been a professional dance instructor since 2003 and a teaching artist at Young Audiences of Western New York for more than four years. She specializes in salsa dancing and Latin music and dance, focusing not only on timing, technique, rhythm, footwork, and styling, but on the historical and cultural aspects of Latin music and dance. This past April, she…

YA Week Interview with Victoria Spangler - Abilene Reporter-News

Mar 27, 2013 | marcus@ya.org

The Executive Director of Young Audiences of Abilene, Victoria Spangler was interviewed by the Abilene Reporter-News. For the National Young Audiences Arts for Learning Week she chose to highlight one of her star Teaching Artists Terrence Bennett. Bennett integrates his tap dance performances into geography, history and math lessons. Read more!  

My First Visit to a Young Audiences Program

Feb 21, 2013 | intern@ya.org

  Last Tuesday, February 12, I went on a field trip to watch some 3rd graders perform Mexican dance at P.S. 163 on the Upper West Side. This Young Audiences New York (YANY) Residency, led by a YANY Teaching Artist, offered students the chance to learn about narration, movement and dance. Tied with the school’s Social Studies curriculum, the YANY residency program offered every 3rd-grade student…