Community Programs
Insights & Ingredients - June 2024 (location TBD)
How do danced movements come together to express meaning? Choreography is the result of a process by which gestures, improvisations, and patterns are arranged in response to an idea, impulse, music or another work of art, such as a poem. Choreography can be a collaborative process that engages performers, musicians, and other artists in the joint creation of a performed work of art; one in which human movement explores and illustrates a concept. Understanding this process can enhance an audience's appreciation of and engagement in dance.
Insights & Ingredients is a one-weekend choreographers’ workshop emphasizing collaboration as a means to create dynamic new works. Exploring interdisciplinary partnerships between dance, sound and visual arts, 4 emerging choreographers will each premier a dance work that they have created over the course of the weekend workshop with their dancers and collaborators. To further engage the audience in our creative processes, we invite them to observe our open studio rehearsal process and to stay following the showing for a forum-style talkback session with all of the collaborating artists. Insights & Ingredients provides two unusual opportunities: the first, an open environment in which the audience is granted behind the scenes access to witness the ways in which the performed works are created; the second, an educational environment that engages and solicits audience reactions to deepen the artist-audience relationship and provide a greater understanding of how the works we create impact our community.
How do danced movements come together to express meaning? Choreography is the result of a process by which gestures, improvisations, and patterns are arranged in response to an idea, impulse, music or another work of art, such as a poem. Choreography can be a collaborative process that engages performers, musicians, and other artists in the joint creation of a performed work of art; one in which human movement explores and illustrates a concept. Understanding this process can enhance an audience's appreciation of and engagement in dance.
Insights & Ingredients is a one-weekend choreographers’ workshop emphasizing collaboration as a means to create dynamic new works. Exploring interdisciplinary partnerships between dance, sound and visual arts, 4 emerging choreographers will each premier a dance work that they have created over the course of the weekend workshop with their dancers and collaborators. To further engage the audience in our creative processes, we invite them to observe our open studio rehearsal process and to stay following the showing for a forum-style talkback session with all of the collaborating artists. Insights & Ingredients provides two unusual opportunities: the first, an open environment in which the audience is granted behind the scenes access to witness the ways in which the performed works are created; the second, an educational environment that engages and solicits audience reactions to deepen the artist-audience relationship and provide a greater understanding of how the works we create impact our community.
Educational Collaborations
Room To Move Dance conducts classes and collaborates on projects with schools and Arts Centers throughout Atlanta. Recent collaborations have included work with The Galloway School, St Martin's Episcopal School, The High Museum, The Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and The South Fulton Arts Center.
Works created in each of our annual concert series are used in lecture demonstrations and workshops with adults and 4th through 12th grade students. For example, the senior class young artists and dancers at the Callanwolde Arts Center were included 2013 concert series “Four Unexpected Dances”.
Room To Move Dance has created a dance based on The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon, incorporating students at The Galloway School. We are going to expand to The Dekalb County Performing Arts High School, Montgomery Elementary School and the The South Fulton Arts Center in the near future.
Room To Move Dance conducts classes and collaborates on projects with schools and Arts Centers throughout Atlanta. Recent collaborations have included work with The Galloway School, St Martin's Episcopal School, The High Museum, The Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and The South Fulton Arts Center.
Works created in each of our annual concert series are used in lecture demonstrations and workshops with adults and 4th through 12th grade students. For example, the senior class young artists and dancers at the Callanwolde Arts Center were included 2013 concert series “Four Unexpected Dances”.
Room To Move Dance has created a dance based on The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon, incorporating students at The Galloway School. We are going to expand to The Dekalb County Performing Arts High School, Montgomery Elementary School and the The South Fulton Arts Center in the near future.