Kaleidoscope Dancers Company: the
professional and community service based
dance company within the Dance Education
Program
Artistic Director: Deborah Damast
Assistant Director: Belinda Aime Saenz
Musical Director: Brad Wentworth
Fall 2015 schedule
All Friday workshops meet from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Friday Sept 4 class and company information
Friday Sept 11 class and repertory
Friday Sept 18 class and repertory
Friday Sept 25 class and repertory
Friday Oct 2 class and repertory
Friday Oct 9 NDEO conference, no KD
Friday Oct 16 class and rep + group work
Friday Oct 23 class and rep + group work
Friday Oct 30 class and rep + group work
Friday Nov 6 class and rep + group work
Friday Nov 13 class and rep - lesson plans
Friday Nov 20 Kaleidoscope in attendance at MA Concert
Friday Nov 27 No Kaleidoscope – Thanksgiving recess
Friday Dec 4 warm up class, rehearsal, lesson planning
Friday Dec 11 final repertory review, spring schedule
Students sign up for KD for 2 semesters:
MPADE-GE 2001 001 fall semester
MPADE-GE 2001 002 spring semester
Course description:
Kaleidoscope Dancers is a professional and community
service based dance company within the Dance
Education Program that provides interactive dance
experiences to children from a variety of schools from
the NYC Department of Education.
Course Goals:
Students in Kaleidoscope Dancers Company will take
weekly company class, learn repertory and prepare lesson
plans for children in K-12 settings in the fall semester.
In the spring semester, students will collaboratively teach
lesson plans each Friday to a group of children from a NYC
DOE school. Company members each week will perform,
analyze, and discuss the repertory, will co-teach and
participate in a creative dance making class, will
collaborate with children on a dance making activity, will
facilitate describing the dance to the company music
director who will create an original score, and will perform
the original choreography with the original score for the
other participants. Company members will provide written
lesson plans to the group, will analyze and critique the
lessons, and will deconstruct the pedagogic process of
collaborative teaching and learning.
Kaleidoscope also contributes to 2 fully produced free
concerts for children each year in the Frederick Loewe
theatre, connected with the Masters Concert in November
and the Faculty Concert in April.
Expectations:
Dancers are expected to:
1. arrive on time for all classes, rehearsals, workshops,
and performances
2. dress appropriately for class and rehearsal, and in KD
shirts and black dance pants for workshops and
performances (spring semester)
3. submit lesson plan on time
4. collaborate with co-teachers on lesson plans
5. communicate with collaborating DOE teachers to plan
lessons
6. remember and rehearse repertory from week to week
7. maintain a professional attitude in classes, rehearsals,
workshops, and performances
8. collaborate and perform with children in the dance
making workshops in the spring
9. analyze and reflect on lessons as a group
10. contact directors if you will be late or absent
Assessment:
This course is a pass/fail course. To pass the course you
must pass with the following criteria;
Dancers will be assessed on the following:
Attendance and Participation- 30%
Lesson plan design- 20%
Teaching lesson-30%
Performing repertory- 10%
Collaborating as supporting teachers – 10%
KALEIDOSCOPE Spring 2016 Workshop Schedule
(schedule subject to change)
Date
Event
Teaching Artists TBD
January 29
review and planning day
February 5
DOE workshop
February 12
DOE workshop
February 19
DOE Winter break/Independent school workshop
February 26
DOE workshop
March 4
DOE workshop
March 11
DOE workshop
March 18
NYU Spring Break ---NO CLASS---------------------------------------
March 25
DOE Closed, Good Friday
April 1
DOE workshop
April 8
DOE workshop
April 15
DOE workshop
April 22
Children’s Concert/DOE spring break
April 29
DOE Closed, Spring Break
May 6
DOE workshop and end of year celebration