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Residencies that involve schools, community groups and local artists utilizing dance, theatre, poetry and media to examine issues. |
RESIDENCIES
Dance/Theatre/Etcetera conducts residencies that involve extensive interactions with community members.
Residencies include dance and theatre classes, interview and story-telling workshops and community arts workshops, media programs and community arts workshops. Residencies often culminate in a public performance.
Ms. Bowers and Company members are also available for college and university residencies. Ms. Bowers has created original works for numerous college/university student dance groups. Recent residencies were conducted at Antioch College, Brookdale Community College, Colorado College, Queens College, Rutgers University and Cornell.
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DTE Executive Director Martha Bowers is an award winning arts educator.
(Brooklyn Arts Exchange BAXten Award 2002, NYC Education Chancellor Rudolph Crew's Community Caring Award 1999).
Currently, she teaches Equal Exchange: Arts-Based Collaborations with
Immigrant Youth at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
She worked as a teaching artist for the Lincoln Center Institute from 1986-1997.
She has designed and implemented arts education programs for both the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Dancing in the Streets in numerous NYC public schools.
A six year recipient of the New York Foundation's Artist in the School Community grant,
she has been an artist in residence at the Brooklyn International High School since 1993, designing arts programs that meet the needs of recently
immigrated teens. A member of the planning team for the South Brooklyn Community High School in Red Hook, Brooklyn, she continues her work there
with school staff developing arts and media curricula.
Dance/Theatre/Etcetera's arts education programs emphasize engagement, collaboration, critical thinking and reflection in conjunction with the building of skills within a variety of artistic disciplines. Employing an arsenal of techniques from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed to documentary filmmaking, youth are encouraged to challenge themselves and their peers to become active participants in their schools, their communities and in determining the direction of their own lives. |
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Dance/Theatre/Etcetera has designed and implemented a variety of arts programs in consultation with school staff including the Poetry Dance Workshop, a gym program that included Hip Hop dance classes and Martial Arts and a Media program that produced documentary videos on local and personal issues. |
| Red Hook Poetry Dance Workshop |
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The Poetry Dance Workshop is a Dance/Theatre/Etcetera arts education program currently based at the South Brooklyn Community Academy in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The workshop's purpose is to offer local youth an opportunity to explore issues of identity, community, relationships, conflict, loss and hope within the context of a creative arts workshop. The Workshop culminates with a performance at the Annual Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival. This program, now in its 4th year, has been led by poets Everton Sylvester and his band searching for banjo, Johny Lashley of the hip hop spoken word group Second2Last and choreographer Martha Bowers. The 2004 Poetry Dance Workshop will be taught by dancer/choreographer Pene McCourty and poet/performer Akil Dasan. The Red Hook View, writings and artwork by the 2001 Poetry Dance Workshop members, is available for purchase at $5.00 plus shipping. Contact DTE for more information. Cover art for the Red Hook View, pictured left, by Julio Roman. |
Brooklyn International High School
Through Ms. Bowers course "Equal Exchange" at New York University's Gallatin School, students at The Brooklyn International High School are linked with New York University students. Brooklyn International students participate in an after-school Performing Arts Workshop led by Martha Bowers. NYU students assist in teaching this class to develop original theatre pieces exploring issues that face recently immigrated teens. Dance/Theatre/Etcetera also produces the Brooklyn International High School's International Festival, a unique performing arts event that celebrates the diverse cultures represented in the school's student body to promote inter-cultural understanding.
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