Arts in Education Choreographic Pilot (AIECP)

Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. is establishing an innovative Performing Arts in Education Outreach Pilot Program.

The mission of this program encompasses in-depth community outreach to instruct children in Pre-K through 12th grades in the full impact, allowing them to acquire the tools and methodology for creating choreography in the dance art form.

This pilot program encourages each funded Artist to plan and augment the format needed for teaching the art of choreography and performance. This essentially provides time and ability for each Artist, Teacher and Choreographer to establish a detailed curriculum for the students that can serve as a foundation for later instruction and be used by others. This workbook also will serve as a textbook for each student to create their own work.

This instruction, at least initially is expected to involve the Contemporary Dance and Creative Movement fields. This should provide a new method for supporting dance companies and related arts programs with new ways to reach out into the community. Such instruction goes way beyond the usual training in dance technique and by doing so, supports the growth of new audiences in each community program where it is implemented. Development of this curriculum would also serve as a laboratory environment for developing curriculum exploring creativity developed by artists, teachers and choreographers.

The Artist/Choreographer/Teacher will assemble the knowledge, navigation, and step-by-step activities needed to develop a presentation of all student work created at the end of the pilot program, to be experienced by the students’ classmates, families and communities.

The program expects the curriculum to address elements of aesthetics, including time, movement energy, spatial awareness, asymmetry and symmetry, interpersonal collaboration, critical thinking and decision- making, geometry, mathematics, autobiographical expression, non-verbal exploration, self-awareness, self-esteem building, classroom experiential safe learning and expression, aesthetic inquiry of art forms and architecture, and the history of art. We expect this non-exclusive list will grow with the program.

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Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. expects that the new program will allow each student participant to:

1. Work in collaboration with other students and teachers as an instrument of art similar to a composer working in collaboration with the goal of an eventual presentation.

2. Work and thrive in a safe expressive environment of artistic expression and participation.

3. Learn, use, expand and create using the tools and elements of choreography which can translate directly to other modes of expression – music, poetry, storytelling, theater, visual arts, costuming, literacy, as well as multi-generational cultural and historical legacy preservation.

Above all, the mission is to offer grants to artists, teachers and choreographers that also support the teachers’ and the sponsoring organization’s rental space expenses for these classes and ultimately provide such advanced Arts in Education classes free of charge to the student participants and their families.

Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. is adamant that all of these opportunities be free to the participants; the goal of the grants would provide and assure this level of integration into At Risk Student populations, Special Needs Students, and communities at risk. Younger populations are most encouraged from Pre-K through 6th grade.

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DMF, Inc. Board Members are extensively experienced in the performing arts: from master teaching to mentoring, curriculum development, publicity and public relations, self-producing, legal matters, real estate, and grant writing. DMF, Inc. Board Members will offer such collaborative mentoring pro-bono.