CDEA NEWS
2009 NorCal & SoCal CONFERENCES RECAP
“Celebrating A Legacy: Dance Education
in California - Past, Present & Future.”
A heartfelt thank you to everyone –- both presenters and attendees -- who shared in and helped to shape the success of our Northern and Southern California conferences last month. I had the great privilege of attending both conferences, and was truly heartened and inspired by the quality of the presentations and workshops, and the passion and commitment of those who participated. Coming together with colleagues to play, share and learn is energizing, restorative and much needed in these stressful times.
As dance artists and educators we are part of a larger dance family with a rich heritage. There is strength in reconnecting with the legacy of our chosen art, and, with this in mind, our conference theme for this year was “Celebrating A Legacy: Dance Education in California - Past, Present & Future.” We were honored to be able to celebrate the legacy of and share with dance pioneers Anna Halprin and Rudy Perez, and in so doing, not only experience their unique voices, but also validate the work we do as artists and educators. As Rudy said, we need to keep dance important. And, hopefully, that will be our legacy as we work in the present and move into the future – to keep dance important.
Again, thank you to all who participated. Keep sharing the good word and the good work of dance.
Shana Habel
CDEA Co-President
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"The Newly Adjusted State Budget as of February 19, 2009 6:43 a.m.
and Implications for Visual and Performing Arts' Arts and Music
Block Grants and Arts, Music and Physical Education Grant."
In response to the many emails and phone calls here are the responses to be made, at this time, with regards to the Arts and Music Block Grant and the Arts, Music and Physical Education Grant. Should there be new information I will pass it along at that time. Nancy Carr 2-29-09
The Revised State Budget as of 6:43 am February 19, 2009 and “The Arts.”
SBX3 4 and ACAXC 1 contain categorical grant funding information, applicable to the Arts and Music Block Grant (2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009) and the Arts, Music and Physical Education Grant (2006-2007). READ THE REST ON OUR WEBSITE BY CLICKING HERE...
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Take Action: Arts Funding Bill in CA State Assembly
Assistant Majority Leader of the Assembly Paul Krekorian, has introduced AB 700, the "Creative Industries and Community Economic Revitalization Act of 2010."
Passage of AB 700 will provide much needed resources to revitalize and strengthen the arts throughout the state. What you can do:
- Learn about AB 700 by visiting californiaartsadvocates.org/ab700.html.
- Download the AB 700 sample letter at californiaartsadvocates.org/ab700.html.
- Fax a letter expressing your organization's support of the bill to Assembly Member Paul Krekorian at (916) 319-2143.
- Fax copies to Asm. Nancy Skinner and Sen. Loni Hancock and to CAA at (916) 979-1116 and lobbyist Kathy Lynch at (916) 445-7353. Contact information for your legislator can be found at capwiz.com/artsusa/ca/directory/statedir.tt?state=CA&lvl=state.
Make sure your organization is recognized in the upcoming Assembly committee analysis!
Edward (Ted) Warburton
University of California, Santa Cruz and CDEA Co-President
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The University of Chicago is conducting the first
major study of the teaching artist profession.
We are counting on organizations in the Bay area in order to get in contact with teaching artists and arts education managers for representation in a study on the careers and programs for teaching artists. Our goal is to help policymakers understand the contributions of teaching artists and the programs that hire them. We’d like to suggest policies and strategies that will help sustain the work and expand its reach.
We hope that you can help us make a difference through this unique study by providing us with:
- An estimate of how many teaching artists you hire
- Manager contact info at your organization (name and email)
- Email contact info for all teaching artists that work at your organization
- This academic study is confidential and emails will only be used to send teaching artists and their managers an online survey within the next few months.
You can send us the list as an email attachment to teachingartists@uchicago.edu or you can fax it to us at (773) 834-7412. For more information on the project please check our website at http://teachingartists.uchicago.edu or see the project information sheet.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely, Jason Radford
Research Assistant, Teaching Artists Research Project
University of Chicago Survey Lab | Ph: 773-834-6913, Fax: 773-834-7412
Email: teachingartists@uchicago.edu
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CDEA is one of the partners of the California Dance Network, an online resource for dancers, companies and teacher. The purpose of the CADN website is to strengthen, connect, unify and promote our state’s thriving dance field.
The website empowers the California dance community by gathering census data about the dance field (which is vital toward our efforts for a dance teaching credential), compiling state-wide and national news about dance, and providing online tools to promote dance events and activities.
It is vital that you your dance voice be counted and heard. You can easily create a dance profile. Just click on the link below.
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Information and wording that could be used in addressing your
Assembly Person re AB554. |
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The following statement provides information and wording that could be used in addressing your Assembly Person re AB554. (Thanks to Dain for sharing his insight with us.)
"It is our experience, that standards-based arts instruction with pedagogical integrity and core academic rigor, from experienced, quality, credentialed teachers, is the superior foundation upon which to offer advanced sequences of specialized, workplace referenced Career and Technical Education courses. The credential requirements in CTE offer a very low threshold for classroom instruction, implying that these instructors may be in and out of the classroom, still connected to the workplace, and therefore reflecting that perspective in "real world" demonstrations of applied learning.
This legislation negates the complementary relationship between these two entities, allowing for the elimination of mandated arts instruction, as well as a dedicated, experienced educational work force that together put the arts on equal par with other core content areas."
Dain Olsen
Media Arts Content Expert, K-12
Arts Education Branch, LAUSD
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SPECIAL 10% DISCOUNT TO ALL CDEA MEMBERS
Registered by May 1, 2009!!
Embodiment in Education: Professional Development
for Dance / Movement Educators
June 15 - June 19, 2009 - 1 week | Berkeley, California
Faculty: Susan Bauer, M.F.A., M.A.
With Guest Faculty Deane Juhan
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This workshop serves as an introduction to a cutting-edge approach to using somatics with teens and college-level adults. Gain practical tools to integrate these approaches into your teaching!
Through experiential and student-centered methods, we model a respect for one’s body that empowers students through the development of kinesthetic awareness, enhanced perception of one’s cultural conditioning, and a healthy respect for self and others. We will also address complex issues of including movement and touch in an educational setting. (Based on Experiential Anatomy, Body-Mind Centering®, and other somatic modalities.)
This workshop is ideal for practitioners and teachers of dance, yoga, martial arts, and other forms, as well as for all those inspired to expand their own dance / movement practice with a more embodied presence.
[Note: Although geared toward professional educators, this workshop is also open to all those with an interest in somatics, dance / movement education, and/or education.]
For more information (application and registration details) see www.movingoncenter.org or contact Susan Bauer at s1bauer@aol.com or (510) 333-6415.
Tuition (one-week intensive): $625
Early registration: $550* ($75 discount)
Early registration deadline: May 1, 2009 ($155 non-refundable deposit due by May 1st)Note: California Dance Education Association (CDEA) members receive an additional 10 % discount off early registration fee)
[*Those funding tuition with faculty support funds from a University or high school are asked to pay full fee when possible; see application for details.]
Faculty Biographies:
Susan Bauer, MFA, MA is a dancer, choreographer, and dance / somatics educator who has taught at the secondary and university levels for over twenty years. She currently serves as Adjunct Faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), John F. Kennedy University (JFKU), and the University of San Francisco (USF). She has taught Experiential Anatomy (based on extensive studies of Body-Mind Centering®, Ideokinesis, and Bartenieff Fundamentals) at several universities in the U.S. and at the Moon Ban Dek School in Thailand. Susan has several published articles on dance and somatics in such journals as Somatics Journal and Contact Quarterly and is the author of A BodyMind Approach to Movement Education for Adolescents, which presents her unique curriculum in Experiential Anatomy for teens.
Deane Juhan has been a professional bodyworker for 30 years. He was a member of the Esalen massage crew from 1975 to 1989, and has been a Trager practitioner and instructor since 1980. He has designed and teaches a wide variety of anatomy and physiology workshops for bodyworkers of all kinds throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. He is the author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork. He maintains a private practice in Berkeley, California.
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| Professional Development Classes: Teaching Artists Organized |
Mondays at MOCHA
Four exciting professional development classes for teaching artists one Monday each month: March 23, April 13, May 18, June 8, 6:00 - 8:00pm
$12 suggested donation. Pay at the door. Cash only please. No one turned away.
MOCHA (Museum of Children's Art), 589 Ninth Street, Oakland
March 23: Integrating Art Across Curricula
Instructor: Miranda Bergman (MOCHA)
Hands-on projects linking art with science and literacy
April 13: Demystifying the VAPA Standards
Instructors: Jill Randall and Sabrina Klein (Shawl-Anderson & Creative Education Consulting)
You too can teach in alignment with state standards (hint: you already are doing it!)
May 18: Classroom Management
Instructor: Rica Anderson (Cal Performances)
Who's in charge here, anyway?
June 8: Theatre Language Arts
Instructor: Dave Maier (Berkeley Rep School of Theatre)
Staging Stories from the curriculum
For more information and to register, visit teachingartistsorganized.org or call 510-931-6345.
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| 7th Annual Arts in Your Classroom Conference |
Montalvo Arts Center and the Santa Clara County Office of Education present the 7th Annual The Arts in Your Classroom professional development conference.
Friday, March 27, 2009, 8:30am - 5pm
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California
For K-8 educators
Conference participants will:
1. investigate effective approaches to incorporating the arts in the classroom
2. enhance their capacity to connect learning across content areas, with a focus on literacy development
3. engage in arts integrated workshop that delve into the artistic process and this year's theme of [re]source/[re]inspire
4. uncover a fresh understanding of the importance of the arts in student development and creativity
The Conference will include:
1. dynamic arts-integrated workshops
2. featured student performances
3. continental breakfast, lunch, and reception refreshments
4. complimentary copies of SCCOE Visual & Performing Arts Resource Guide and the California Visual & Performing Arts Framework for first-time participants
Registration: $50, includes conference materials and food. Scholarships and matching sub costs are available for conference participants. Please contact the conference team directly with any inquiries.
Register online at http://santaclara.k12oms.org/eventdetail/php?id=23199.
For more information, call 408-453-6584 or email aimee_ipsonpflederer@sccoe.org or call 408-961-5818 or email learn@montalvoarts.org.
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Americans for the Arts Annual Convention 2009
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Renewable Resources: Arts in Sustainable Communities
Seattle, Washington | June 18-20, 2009
Reflect, Rethink, & Renew in Seattle
Reflect on innovative ideas from speakers in more than 75 field-crafted sessions, plus tours and activities throughout the region.
Rethink the possibilities to grow our greatest renewable resources-the arts, culture, and creativity-with more than 1,400 colleagues from across the country.
Renew your commitment to creating a sustainable future for yourself, your organization, and your community.
For more information, visit artsusa.org/events/2009/convention/default.asp.
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| Free Training for California Cultural Data Project |
The California Cultural Data Project is the most ambitious and comprehensive effort ever to gather and analyze information about the contributions of the cultural sector to California's economy and quality of life. During the coming year, applicants to many California grant programs will be asked to participate in the California CDP.
Get started by visiting the California CDP website at caculturaldata.org. Create an account by selecting New User Registration. Review the online training and start your profile.
Get the most from the California CDP by attending a free new user training session. These training sessions will show you and your staff how to enter data into the California CDP and use its powerful reporting features.
Free New User Training Sessions will be offered:
Pasadena: March 23, 10am, Pasadena Main Library, Donald Wright Auditorium
Los Angeles: March 24, 10am, Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Long Beach: March 25, 10am, Museum of Latin American Art
Santa Ana: March 26, 10am, Grand Central Art Center
Refreshments will be served.
Prefer to attend a training session from your home or office computer? If so, register for a web-based Training Sessions. A web-based session will be offered March 19, 10am.
For questions and updates, visit caculturaldata.org or contact the California CDP Help Desk at help@caculturaldata.org or 1-866-9-CAL-CDP.
California CDP Training Manuals are also available in the offices of Dancers' Group, located at 1360 Mission St, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA. |
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