Outreach ProgramS 2007-2008

History
The Academy of Performing Arts is a non-profit, theatre and school for the performing arts located in Orleans, MA. Incorporated in 1975, the Academy produces 12+ theatre, dance and music productions annually and provides year-round classes in dance, music and theatre for all ages and levels. Our Outreach program is dedicated to improving the quality of K-12 grade education by promoting the integration of the arts throughout the school curriculum.

Residencies and Workshops
Academy dance, music and drama faculty are available for curriculum enrichment sessions in the classroom. We will try to match our artists to all requests from classroom teachers. Programs include dance and movement classes, character visits, creative drama and improv, choreography for school plays, coaching for drama clubs and music workshops for bands or orchestra. Please call us for specific requests. Prices start at $55 per session.

Assemblies
Assemblies bring the magic of live performance to larger groups of students. Performances are 30 to 45 minutes long and include a question and answer period. Assembly programs are designed to inspire and spark an interest in the arts.
Prices for lecture demonstrations and assemblies vary according to number of artists. We will provide a written outline of all costs when programming planning begins.

Booking a Program
If you are interested in booking a program, please call 1-508-255-5510.

Funding
Many outreach programs are funded by local cultural councils. Call your town hall for information. Deadlines are usually mid October. Also, check with your school’s Parent Group for fund raising ideas and talk with your principal to see if there are school funds available.

Contact us
Academy of Performing Arts
5 Giddiah Hill Road
Orleans, MA 02653
Phone: 508-255-5510
Fax: 508-255-5509
Email: aparts@cape.com
Website: www.apacape.org
Outreach Coordinator: Deborah Benker
debbenkerapa@comcast.net

Outreach Artists

Dance
Deborah Benker	Lucinda Deschamps
Suzette Hutchinson	David McCarty
Terry Norgeot	Joanne Sinerate
Katherine Whitelaw
Drama
Julie Allen Hamilton	Jack Kerig
Michelle Pelletier	Jacqueline Underwood
Movement and Improv
Rebecca Burrill
Music
Peggy Gerber	Daniel LePage
Richard Klopfer	Dick Stocks
Robert Wilder

Workshops/Residencies

Kids in Motion
Workshop- 4 Sessions recommended
Grade 4
Suzette Hutchinson & Robert Wilder

Students learn to use rhythm and tempo as they work on choreography to communicate through movement. Classes are accompanied by a percussionist, so students dance to live music. This program develops concentration, mind-body coordination, motor and memory capacity, body awareness and balance, the ability to hear rhythmic patterns, to follow directions and improves social interaction and teamwork. Students perform a short dance at the end of the session. This program is modeled after the very successful ‘Chance to Dance’ program in Rhode Island.
$110 per class

Character Alive!
Our theater faculty members and actors will bring history to life by visiting your classroom, in full costume and in character, as characters from literature, history, art, etc. Past programs have included George Washington, Native American, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Cat in the Hat. Character visits based on curriculum can be arranged with a minimum one month notice.  Artist will visit the Classroom or perform small assemblies for a grade level. The Artist will meet with the teacher prior to visiting students.
$55 per class

Creative Movement
Pre-school – Grade 2
Kathy Whitelaw
Students will explore body awareness, qualities of movement, rhythm and creative expression through movement. 
$55 per class

Page to Stage
Grades 6 and up
Michelle Pelletier
You are waiting for the ancient Amazons to arrive in their invisible plane to deliver brownies of your birthday party. But what happens to them? You live on Mars. You have a bad cold and your best-friends, the amoebas from Saturn, are flying in for a sleep-over. You can’t find the Kleenex. What do you do? We write the play. We perform it. The group will write, rehearse and perform a short play of their own making.
$55 per class

Movement and Alphabets
Grades PreK – 1st grade; 2-hour workshop
Rebecca Burrill
Beginning with sounding the first letter of children’s names, we investigate the body feeling of phonemes sounds and their feeling of body shape. What stories do the sound and shape tell us? We paint these stories and re-tell these stories. We paint a color and shape to the first letter of our name and compare this symbol with the letters of the conventional alphabet.

These activities work with the areas of the brain that stimulate sensory integration, image-making and imagination. They promote balance, spatial and time awareness, self- awareness, gross and fine motor control, impulse control, focus span and concentration, and the making of learning automatic to support new learning. They work with the origins of language-making and extend and sensory-motor experience of oral language into the abstract realm of literacy.
Workshop $110 

Movement & Storytelling & Shapeshifting
Grades 2-3; four 1-hour workshops
Rebecca Burrill
These workshops encompass the movement idea of Shapeshifting in folktale and myth. The idea of Shapeshifting is introduced through story-dancing. Follow-up activities use improvisational movement games to teach immersion in a feeling state and role. These games get to the essence of Shapeshifting and the core of movement as an art form. Informal performance created by children to a chosen myth or folktale.

These activities work with the areas of the brain that stimulate sensory integration, image-making and imagination. They promote balance, spatial and time awareness, self- awareness, gross and fine motor control, impulse control, focus span and concentration, and the making of learning automatic to support new learning. They teach the translation of feelings and images into movement articulation, a foundational aspect of the articulation of speech.
Workshop $220

Picture Book Making
Grades 4-5; four 1-hour workshops
Rebecca Burrill
This workshop starts with movement and the telling of personal stories based on the principles of immersion in a feeling state and role. Then a storyboard—as used by writers and illustrators of picture books—is made for the final making of picture books with paintings and text. Informal reading of stories.

These activities work with the areas of the brain that stimulate sensory integration, image-making and imagination. They promote balance, spatial and time awareness, self- awareness, gross and fine motor control, impulse control, focus span and concentration, and the making of learning automatic to support new learning. These activities translate kinesthetic and empathic experience from whole picture processing to linear sequencing and the abstraction of written language. They also can allow for the expression of invented literacy rules, the pre-cursor to learning and refinement of conventional literary rules.
Workshop $220

Carnival of Animals
Middle School; four 1-hour workshops
Rebecca Burrill
This workshop uses the music of Camille Saint-Saens'—Carnival of Animals—to structure gestural vocabulary for improvisational dance. In this process we will explore the differences between mimicking animal movement vs. embodying animal states of being as impetus for dance expression. The principles of embodiment and immersion are among the oldest in human dance expression, and key to its art.

These activities work with the areas of the brain that stimulate sensory integration, image-making and imagination. They promote balance, spatial and time awareness, self- awareness, gross and fine motor control, impulse control, focus span and concentration, and the making of learning automatic to support new learning. They also stimulate entrainment and coordination with rhythm and sound, a foundation for higher brain functioning.
Workshop $220

Principals of Movement for Human Communication and Understanding
Grades 9- 12; four 1-hour workshops
Rebecca Burrill
This dance improvisation workshop focuses on the movement awareness of self-orientation in the forces of space, weight, time, and the 3-dimensional planes. We explore the psycho-biological meanings of moving in these spheres and how these meanings are the substance of human communication and relationship. We work with these elements to create structured improvisational dance pieces.

These activities work with the areas of the brain that stimulate the maturing of sensory integration and imagination, balance, space, weight, and time awareness, self- awareness and maturity, gross and fine motor control, impulse control, focus span and concentration, and the making of learning automatic to support new learning. They also promote whole mind-body processing, social interaction, future planning, and the play with new ideas and possibilities.
Workshop $22

Programs for Teachers 

Movement as Basis for Communication and Development
For Caregivers & Teachers of Infants through Kindergarten
3 PDPs
Rebecca Burrill
In this workshop we look at some movement foundations for sensory integration. We start with Rhythmic Movement that stimulate primitive and postural reflexes which organize the brain for learning, and Biological Rhythms that organize the stages of psycho-biological development. We extend these understandings in exploration of the meaning of dynamic and shape in movement as foundation for nonverbal communication, and look at this in relation to first alphabets.

Movement Basis for Phonetic Awareness and Print Awareness
For Teachers of Pre-K through 1st Grade
4 PDPs
Rebecca Burrill
Part One: The basic meanings of dynamic and shape in movement is related to phonetic awareness. These meanings are amplified through story vignettes triggered by sensing, feeling and imagination. These stories are painted.
Part Two: The movement understandings of Part One are extended through painting of felt color and shape of sounds in language. This is related to the logographic stage of print awareness. Logographs of our names are created to story vignettes. These stories are painted.

Movement, Learning & Art: Influences on Emergent Literacy
For Teachers of Pre-K through 3rd Grade
10 PDPs
Rebecca Burrill
This program looks at the foundations of motor-sensory-perception as the origins of human communication, dance, art and all learning. The developmental relationships between movement, learning, non-verbal communication, art-making, and emergent literacy are explored. A group mini-project integrating arts and literacy learning, based on the above developmental relationships is created. Final thematic curriculum plans, based on the above developmental sequence in literacy learning and arts integration, are produced for final assessment. Reading handouts provided by instructor. Arts and crafts supplies supplied by participants.

Movement & Development Foundations for Meaning-Making, Communication, & Language
For Teachers of Pre-K through 12th Grade
10 PDPs
Rebecca Burrill
In this series of four workshops we explore:
*The evolutionary basis for the primary perception: movement, sensing, and feeling as language
*Movement, sound, language and art
*Movement systems; movement games; movement arts
*Final curriculum projects created and shared

These workshops explore the evolutionary and developmental basis for primary perception. The intent is to look at how, in the modern hyper-literate society, we bypass fundamental perceptions and communications of children and young adults, and therefore interrupt natural developmental and learning processes. Through the window of movement we can recognize ways to reconnect ourselves with primary perception and apply this to ways in which we relate and create curriculum for our students. Reading handouts provided by instructor.  Arts and crafts supplies supplied by participants.

Note: This workshop is pertinent for everyone, particularly parents, educators, administrators and other professionals working for and with children and young adults.

Letter from the Artistic Director

October 25th, 2007

Dear Colleagues:

The Academy of Performing Arts is pleased to announce the addition of Rebecca R. Burrill, Ed.D to their Faculty with specific skills that should be of great interest in our Outreach Programming. Rebecca brings programs geared for ages Pre-k through high school as well as offers professional development courses on movement and brain development related to sensory integration, emotions, imagination, arts, language and literacy.

For those interested in meeting Rebecca and talking about these programs, professional development opportunities or perhaps the development of a program more specific to your needs, please contact Deborah Benker at 508-255-5510 and she will be happy to arrange a meeting at the earliest convenience for all.

We are also pleased to announce that we have some remaining funding for our Kids in Motion Workshops that may allow us to provide that program for interested schools at limited to no costs over the next few months. This is a wonderful program and those interested are urged to call the Academy and book now in order to take advantage of this. Suzette Hutchinson and Robert Wilder continue to bring this program alive in every school they visit…so don’t miss out!

On behalf of the Academy I want to thank you in advance for your continued support and interest in our collective efforts to keep arts in education alive and in our schools here on the Cape.

Sincerely yours,

David McCarty
Artistic Director
APA School Division