Yvonne Hatchett Traditions in American Music A presentation including lecture, demonstration and audience participation, of American music and the cultural heritage on which it is based. This 45 minute workshop spans the contributions of Africa and Europe on spiritual, blues, jazz and children's songs. Students have the opportunity to experience the synergy of American music. As an ArtsConnection project, K-6 classes interact with children from the Amazon rain forest and the Canadian Arctic through art and technology. Students exchange artwork with and ask questions to their counterparts in the Amazon or the Arctic, receive e-mail reports, take online adventures, and collaborate with rain forest or Arctic classrooms in creating the project web site.
Teachers receive materials and resources.
Schools in New York State may receive visits from artists on the project artist roster. Nancy Judson Storydance Education Nancy Judson teaches early childhood dance in the NYC public schools. She places a special emphasis on literacy when she incorporates the elements of story and song as a basis for structuring her classes. As a result, the children explore the fundamentals of dancemaking while simultaneously making discoveries based on the connections the work has to their social, cognitive, and affective domains of learning. Imani Kahn Project Read An ArtsConnection project that will teach West African dance to grade school students incorporating history and song.