Arts Residency

This is a professional working artist from the arts community who teaches in a school for a predetermined number of visits and collaborates with classroom teachers and their students on specific arts skills that support academic goals. A residency builds skills sequentially and culminates in a public presentation of work, with the goal and expectation of cultural exchange between artists and educators.

 

What is a Dancing Classrooms Arts In Education Residency?

  • A school day residency integrated within the curriculum of upper elementary, middle and high school students.
  • A ten week course, with the classes twice per week culminating in a ballroom dance presentation at the school.
  • An organized, disciplined syllabus of Ballroom and Latin dances, stressing comportment as “ladies and gentlemen” partner work and a knowledge of specific steps to each form of music.
  • Teaching Artists and American Ballroom Theater Company representatives who demonstrate professionalism and exercise Dulaine Method Teaching.
  • Classes structured so that discipline is not conceptualized for perceived as separate from activity.
  • A learning atmosphere where all students are participating all of the time, either as dancers, active watchers, teaching artist assistants or deejay’s, creating a community of learners.

 

A Dancing Classrooms Teaching Artist (TA) Is Expected To:

  • Approach the job of teaching the children, in an upbeat and humorous fashion, where teaching artist, classroom teacher and students are a united partnership and collaborate together.
  • Meet the students where they are, to help students, regardless of natural ability and special needs, to succeed specifically and at their own level.
  • Exercise professionalism, courtesy and consideration.
  • Maintain consistent channels of communication open and available.
  • Attend all company meetings, staff training workshops, special events and competitions, as they are part of the job.
  • Prioritize and manage both the artistic and administrative details of their work as artist professionals.
  • Model an elegant and professional appearance while in the Dancing Classrooms residency:
  • Ladies are expected to wear a dress or a skirt and blouse.
  • Gentlemen are expected to wear dress pants, a button-down shirt with tie.

Photo of Pierre Dulaine with Alee Reed, Senior Teaching Artist

 

If you are interested in becoming a Teaching Artist with Dancing Classrooms Monterey Bay, or simply want more information, please contact us at831-649-6726