2024-2025 DanceAfrica in the Classroom In-School Residency Application

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Thanks for your interest in BAM Education and the DanceAfrica in the Classroom Inclusive in-school residency.

BRING AFRICAN DANCE AND HISTORY INTO YOUR CLASSROOM TO CULTIVATE CULTURAL CONNECTIONS.

About DanceAfrica in the Classroom Inclusive Residencies

DATES: November 2024 - May 2025

GRADES: K—12

Get on your feet! Students of all ages engage in dance and rhythm-making as they explore different cultures from Africa and its diaspora, guided by a BAM teaching artist team of a percussionist and choreographer. Each residency focuses on the music and dance of a specific country highlighted in BAM’s DanceAfrica Festival and culminates in a final performance.

This exuberant residency cultivates artistry in every participant and reminds them that they are contributors to dance legacy.

There are two ways to bring DanceAfrica in the Classroom to your students!

General Education: This program includes a residency planning meeting and 13 in-school sessions, each 45 to 60 minutes long. The residency culminates in a sharing at your school and a performance at BAM with other school partners. Schools enrolled in the residency are also given access to priority tickets to DanceAfrica.

Inclusive: BAM teaching artists allow students learning styles, needs, and abilities to shape how the residency is taught. This program includes a residency planning session and 14 in-school sessions, each 45 to 60 minutes long. The residency culminates in a sharing at your school and a performance at BAM with other school partners. Schools enrolled in the residency are also given access to priority tickets to DanceAfrica.

(Mini-residencies are available if schools prefer a shorter number of workshops)

Curriculum Connections: Global Studies, Music, Dance, Theater, History

About BAM Education

BAM Education provides a space for young people to embrace their Vision, Voice, and Power to be creative agents in all aspects of adventurous art-making. Youth develop their artistry through thought-provoking in- and after-school programs, assemblies, festivals, workshops, performances, and screenings that empower them to express themselves and engage with their community.

Vision, Voice, and Power (VVP) is BAM Education’s mission framework and it encapsulates the way that we want young people to work together, with BAM, and the surrounding community. VVP is also our department’s cultural lens. It is how our administrators seek to engage with one another, participants, school partners and community members. We define VVP from a youth-centered perspective. Vision is how young people use their imagination to create and engage with art and each other. Voice is the way in which young people express and represent themselves to the world. Power, then, is young people’s agency to create and engage with art that is meaningful to their lives.

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