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10 Hairy Legs Company Returns to Elizabeth Public Schools With Dance To Learn Program

originally published: 02/05/2020

10 Hairy Legs Company Returns to Elizabeth Public Schools With Dance To Learn Program(ELIZABETH, NJ) -- 10 Hairy Legs will provide the Dance to Learn program to all second grade students at Winfield Scott School #2 in Elizabeth, NJ in February and March 2020. The Creative Movement Residency includes 14 consecutive weekly classes/42 sessions during the school day taught to 65 students by 10 Hairy Legs Company Member and Teaching Artist Derek Crescenti. 

“As a teaching artist I am both motivated and moved by the palpable sense of excitement and discovery resulting from introducing the Dance to Learn curriculum to young students," said Crescenti. "I cannot wait to share my experiences as a movement artist while also facilitating an environment where the intricate sense of individuality and self that exists within these students can permeate our experience together.” 

The professional company will perform at Winfield Scott School #2 on Friday, March 20 at 9:00am with students participating in the program. The performance is free and open to the community.

 10 Hairy Legs Executive Director Elizabeth Shaff Sobo noted, "We are pleased to return to Elizabeth Public Schools for the fourth consecutive year to provide the Dance to Learn creative movement residency and to perform for its community. Our commitment to dance education is an important component of our work, and we applaud Elizabeth Public Schools embracing the values that dance brings to student achievement in all academic areas, in addition to cultivating our next generation of arts enthusiasts."

 Tracy C. Monteiro, Supervisor for Art for the district stated, “Dance has been a creative outlet in the lives of the Elizabeth Public School students for many years. Each year, our graduating students have moved onto dance related professions post-secondary, proving that the program has made a difference in their lives.  Dance enrollment has flourished exponentially, allowing our district to explore the expansion of the program to our younger students. By allowing our second graders to participate in the study of dance, they learn perseverance and self-motivation. The Dance to Learn program has helped us to encourage the children to experiment and find different paths to solving problems. It is vital in our students’ education and personal development - they learn the importance of trial-and-error and that, 'if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.' The sense of success and accomplishment they are experiencing with these dance professionals, has helped our students to master complicated movement that will encourage them to transfer this ambition into other aspects of their lives moving forward.”



 
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Winfield School #2 Principal Samuel Etienne added, “Dancing is rhythm of the soul, we are extremely grateful to partner with 10 HL as they share with our scholars physical body movement and expressions which speaks louder than words.  Our scholars are looking forward to being part of this amazing opportunity to express them self through dance.”

 The Geraldine R Dodge Foundation partners with Young Audiences, Dance New Jersey, professional dance companies and teachers to promote the Dance to Learn experience.  10 Hairy Legs was awarded a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for the sixth consecutive year to deliver the program. Dance to Learn is a four-year interdisciplinary and inclusive dance curriculum with the goal to advance dance education in schools and community settings. It is a model of dance education that meets or exceeds the NJ Student Learning Standards for Dance and the National Core Arts Standards in Dance.

 The Dance To Learn curriculum is both arts-based and truly arts-integrated because it encourages students to explore, internalize and transform classroom learning and the elements of dance while developing their individual creative voices, offers opportunities for students to reflect, critique and connect personal experiences to their learning of dance and in their classrooms, is adaptive to any dance style, genre, or culture, provides an inroad to kinesthetic learning and connects to language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, physical education and music curriculums and offers formative and summative assessment and documentation tools to help measure the effectiveness of student learning and facilitator impact.

10 Hairy Legs, a male repertory company, provides a lens to experience the broad spectrum of dance. Widely acclaimed for its aggressive commissioning of new works and curation of master works, we have served more than 85,000 patrons, students, artists and educators since our founding in 2012, toured nationally to 20 states appearing at notable venues such as The Kravis Center (FL), Dance Place (DC), Tulsa PAC (OK), The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, The Carlsen Center (KS), as Cameo Artists for The Public Theater’s Public Works production of Hercules at The Delacorte Theatre, choreographed by Chase Brock, and internationally in the Cayman Islands and South Africa.

13 World Premiere Commissions from: Adam Barruch, Julie Bour, Al Blackstone, Doug Elkins, Larry Keigwin, Raja Feather Kelly, Tiffany Mills, Nicholas Sciscione, Doug Varone, Manuel Vignoulle, Megan Williams and Yin Yue. Commissioned Works to debut in June 2020 from: Joshua Beamish, Robert Mark Burke and David Parker. Curated works in our repertory are by: Brian Brooks, Sean Curran, David Dorfman and Dan Froot, Heidi Latsky, Cleo Mack, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Claire Porter, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Christopher Williams.

 Broadcasts have included NJTV’s State of the Arts, The Meredith Vieira Show and Nick Cannon’s Red Nose Dancathon. Dance Education is an important part of our mission and we provide a wide range of programs for all ages exemplifying the many facets of maleness expressed through dance to more than 2,200 students and educators each year.

Original musical commissions: Pauline Kim Harris, Kyle Olson, Robert Maggio, Roarke Menzies, Ofer Pelz, Bryan Strimpel, Michael Wall, Dorian Wallace and Peter Whitehead.



 
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 Designers: Abraham Cruz, Oana Botez, Cindy Capraro, Sarah Dixon, Benjamin Heller, Jason Flamos, John Lasiter, Naomi Luppescu, Mary Kokie McNaugher, Dennis O’Leary-Gullo, Lauren Parrish, Amanda Ringger, Eric Mark Rodrigues, Amanda Shafran, Ken Tabatchnik, Olivier Theyskens, Asa Thornton and Tuce Yasak.

 Leadership funding for the company provided by: The Geraldine R. Dodge, Frank & Lydia Bergen, Benevity, Blanche and Irving Laurie, The O'Donnell Green Music & Dance, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels, Mertz Gilmore, Magyar Bank and Hyde & Watson & SHS Foundations, The E. J. Grassmann Trust, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Johnson & Johnson, American Dance Abroad’s Rapid Response, Middlesex County Arts & History, New Music USA, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State, receiving a Citation of Excellence in 2018 and 2019, the generous contributors to the 10HL Choreographic Initiative and The Constance Poster Trust for New Choreography.


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