Based on Irmgard Bartinieff movement studies. Contact Improvisation is an art of moving spontaneously with another person while maintaining a constantly shifting point of contact. Participants are required to work cooperatively in an atmosphere of trust as they share weight and adapt to gravity. Curriculum Enhancement classes use creative movement structures to enhance classroom curriculum including language skills, cultural and social studies, math, physics and science. Special Population classes have been designed for a wide range of physically, mentally and emotionally challenged students.
Classes integrate music, props, language and visual arts with creative movement structures.
Curriculum for Social Service agencies focuses on breath, thoughts, feelings, posture and energy flow enabling participants to gain personal awareness while using creative structures to identify and express emotion, manage stress and learn new ways of interacting. Work done with youth emphasizes trust, cooperation and non-violent conflict resolution. This year, as in the past several years, FWDC has been awarded money from the CAP on Violence grant program administered by Arts United and funded by the Lincoln National Foundation and the Foellinger Foundation. FWDC will use movement, percussion and literary arts to teach life skills to youth a Whitington, Inc., Center for Non-Violence, Wood Youth Center and From Boys to Men. Funds from the Salinger Foundation are being used to expand this work to reach teens in alternative school programs.