DEL’s Dance for Early Childhood Curriculum encourages learning through play, providing a stimulating, multi-sensory, and nurturing community for diverse young learners to discover their innate movement capacity.
Participants in this course will gain experience in creating developmentally appropriate dance lessons and activities for children ages 3-7 years old. Interactive and participatory, this course will cover the following topics: developmentally appropriate lessons and content for early childhood, developmental patterns and the sensory system, games and short activities, basics of early childhood dance lesson planning, applied LMA vocabulary as a springboard for dance learning and lesson plan organization, strategies for effective teaching, and collaborative lesson planning with peers.
$450 until June 16 / $500 after
Must register by Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
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Master East African Teacher and performing Artist, and teacher and player of East African traditional instruments, Godfrey Muwulya began training as a dancer and musician in his native Uganda in primary school at the age of five years. He joined Ndere Troupe, Uganda’s cultural ambassadors to the world, as their star dancer and instrumentalist. In 2007, he quit in Ndere Troupe and started performing and traveling as a solo dancer, teacher and instrumentalist …
Master East African Teacher and performing Artist, and teacher and player of East African traditional instruments, Godfrey Muwulya began training as a dancer and musician in his native Uganda in primary school at the age of five years. He joined Ndere Troupe, Uganda’s cultural ambassadors to the world, as their star dancer and instrumentalist. In 2007, he quit in Ndere Troupe and started performing and traveling as a solo dancer, teacher and instrumentalist. Godfrey has travelled to numerous countries including Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Macedonia, and many States in the United States. He has performed at DanceAfrica at BAM and was featured in the New York Times for his standout performance. He has performed at the Radio City Music Hall in New York with NYU, and has performed in other great performance venues in United States including the National Arts Club, New York. Godfrey has worked with many dance companies, schools and universities including New York University, University of Arkansas, Marymount College, Brooklyn International High School, Little Red School House, Middlesex School in Concord, MA, all Martha’s Vineyard Schools, AnaHATA Dance Company, Peridance studio, MJM Dance Company, The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard, Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation, and The Arts Club New York City, and the 92NY Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) at The 92nd Street Y, New York. He has worked with Barry Blumenfeld, the President of New York State Dance Education Association (NYSDEA). Videos of Godfrey’s work have aired on New York and New Jersey televisions. He is a recipient of the Best Global Artist of the Year Award at the 2023 UDMAA Awards (Uganda Diaspora Music Artist Awards).
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Milteri Tucker holds degrees in Dance, Biology, and Chemistry as well as a Masters Degree in Dance Education from New York University. She is the founder and artistic director of Bombazo Dance Co. Ms. Tucker has apprenticed and performed with Bomba elders and distinguished families in San Juan, Santurce, Loíza, Cataño, Ponce, Mayagüez and Arroyo, Puerto Rico …
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Milteri Tucker holds degrees in Dance, Biology, and Chemistry as well as a Masters Degree in Dance Education from New York University. She is the founder and artistic director of Bombazo Dance Co. Ms. Tucker has apprenticed and performed with Bomba elders and distinguished families in San Juan, Santurce, Loíza, Cataño, Ponce, Mayagüez and Arroyo, Puerto Rico. As an educator and master Bomba dancer, she lectures on dance technique, figure and timing, across the United States and the world. Milteri has worked with dance companies and choreographers in Puerto Rico, throughout the Caribbean and the United States. She’s performed and showcased her work at New York City Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, BAAD!: Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Thalia Spanish Theater, Castillo Theater, El Museo del Barrio, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts and STEPS. Theater credits include The Perils of Chencha, written and directed by Anita Vélez Mitchell; YES I YES, written by Yolanda García Serrano, directed by Noelle Mauri; Amor Latino written and directed by Angel Gil Orrios; La Negra Más Bella and Llamada/Rally Cry, written and directed by Nancy Nevarez; and Lulu En La Habana, written by Ntozake Shange and directed by Carla Pinza. She portrayed Josephine Baker in Macy’s Herald Square’s tribute, First Diva: Josephine Baker in 2007. Milteri performed in Broadway’s Easter Bonnet competition at the Minskoff Theater in 2011. A member of Maria Torres Emerging Artist Foundation (MTAEF), Tucker was a featured dancer at the Latin Billboard Awards for Puerto Rican recording artist Don Omar in 2013, by choreographer and mentor Maria Torres. In 2019, Milteri represented Bomba Puertorriquena in Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights movie. In addition to her choreographic and artist work, Milteri is the visionaire and author of the first bilingual (Spanish and English) children’s book on Bomba titled Bomba Puertorriquena. She is the CEO of the first international Caribbean dance line of skirts, Bombazo Wear: Bomba Caribbean Skirts. Additional Credits: Spike Lee Joint: High and Low, starring Denzel Washington, highlighted dancer.
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