// Reimagine On Site & Distance Learning
Reimagine On Site & Distance Learning is a sequential multi language art program
Reimagine On Site & Distance Learning
Reimagine On Site & Distance Learning is a sequential multi language 15-30 session art program launched by Performing Arts Workshop in July 2021. Through a series of video and in-person lessons, and individually designed community building curricula, students will have the opportunity to engage in learning, contextualizing, and practicing an art form in collaboration with a teaching artist and peers
Reimagine On Site & Distance Learning Mission
To provide high quality anti racist distance learning arts instruction for all students, with a commitment to collaborating with historically underrepresented groups including low-income communities, immigrant communities, indigenous communities, and Black and Brown communities.
To provide a learning experience that is highly accessible via an inclusive array of devices
To provide opportunities for arts practice
To provide opportunities for community building
To provide instruction in multiple languages (Mandarin, Spanish, English)
// Art Forms
Anti-racist focused art instruction for youth at no cost to participants.
Providing no cost art courses for for grades Pre-K through 12th in English, Spanish and Mandarin. Performing Arts Workshop classes include the following art forms: Creative Writing, Dance, Visual Arts, Media Arts, Spoken Word and Theatre.
Reimagine Distance Learning Courses
Course Title: Beginning Hip Hop & Breaking
Teaching Artist: Dionte Als
Course Language: English
Level: Beginning
Ages: 10 – 13
Materials Needed: N/A
Program Dates: July 6, 2021 – July 30, 2021
Course Description: In this 15 session distance learning course, students will learn beginning Breaking & Hip-Hop dance and freestyle with an emphasis on Breaking. Using the basics and foundations of Breaking, students will understand the structure of a full breaking set and confidently execute it. Students will also learn about Breaking & Hip-Hop dance culture, history, and the pioneering figures in this art form.
Course Title: Hip Hop & Breaking Intermediate
Teaching Artist: Dionte Als
Course Language: English
Level: Intermediate
Ages: 10 – 13
Materials Needed: N/A
Program Dates: July 6, 2021 – July 30, 2021
Course Description: In this 15 session distance learning course, students will learn beginning Breaking & Hip-Hop dance and freestyle with an emphasis on Breaking. Using the foundations of Breaking, students will understand the structure of breaking and learn how to experiment with freestyle and create their own Sets, culminating in a collaborative final project. Students will also learn about Breaking & Hip-Hop dance culture, history, and the pioneering figures in this art form.
Course Title: Visual Arts & Spoken Word
Teaching Artist: Kristi Chan & Natasha Huey
Course Language: English
Level: Beginning
Ages: 10 – 18
Materials Needed: N/A
Program Dates: July 6, 2021 – July 30, 2021
Course Description: In this 15 session distance learning course, students will explore the possibilities of poetry and visual media. Moving through a different theme each week, students will create through processes of observation, experimentation, found object, erasure, illustration, and collage. Both visual art and poetry will be integrated processes throughout the class, through exercises like found poetry, erasure, and freewriting. Students will have an opportunity to work on projects independently and collaboratively, as well as experiment with formats and mediums they may already be familiar with.
Course Title: Afro-Peruvian Zapateo
Teaching Artist: Pierr Padilla
Course Language: Spanish
Level: Beginner
Ages: 10 – 18
Materials Needed: N/A
Program Dates: July 6, 2021 – July 30, 2021
Course Description:
El Zapateo Afroperuano es una forma de percusión corporal, es decir, hacer música con nuestro propio cuerpo. Actualmente, el Zapateo no sólo se realiza con los pies, sino en combinación con las manos que producen sonidos en diferentes partes del cuerpo, como las piernas, el pecho, la cara o la boca.
La clase de Zapateo Afroperuano será un espacio para la exploración rítmica, donde los estudiantes aprenden secuencias rítmicas o “pasadas” y crean sus propias coreografías incorporando acciones escénicas no verbales que expresen sus propios sentires. La clase se realizará en idioma español con introducción al idioma inglés.
The Afro-Peruvian Zapateo is a form of body percussion, that is, making music with our own body. Currently, Zapateo is not only performed with the feet, but in combination with the hands that produce sounds in different parts of the body, such as the legs, chest, face or mouth.
The Afro-Peruvian Zapateo class will be a space for rhythmic exploration, where students learn rhythmic sequences or “passes” and create their own choreographies incorporating non-verbal stage actions that express their own feelings. The class will be held in Spanish with an introduction to the English language.
Course Title: Hip Hop Dance & Creative Movement
Teaching Artist: Hien Huynh
Course Language: English
Level: Intermediate
Ages: 14 – 18
Materials Needed: N/A
Program Dates: July 6, 2021 – July 30, 2021
Course Description: As a team we will be exploring hip hop movement, through the origins of break dance and popping. We will focus on creativity through the means of ‘freestyle’ or ‘improvisation’. As a group we will free draw, free write, and play theater games to build intuitive and imaginative choice making. We will support each other by honoring and amplifying one another’s creativity, share stories, and build our own intertwined narratives.
Reimagine On Site Powerhouse Courses
Course Title: Moving Towards Comics
Teaching Artist: Sabina Kariat & Nico Maimon
Course Language: English
Level: Beginner
Ages: 14 – 18
Materials Needed: N/A
Program Dates: July 6, 2021 – July 30, 2021
Course Description:
In this in-person summer arts program co-taught by Sabina Kariat, an illustrator, animator, and comic artist, and by Nico Maimon, a performance artist, participants will explore the questions: How can movement be inspired by visuals? How can visual art be inspired by dance? And how can these two forms collaborate?
Participants will make comics relating the story arc of a comic to the sequences of movement in dance. W e will wander and explore the Powerhouse area, make art inspired by our settings, use “found materials” in collages, and choreograph movements inspired by specific places.
