Educator/Community Workshops 2007-2008

Calling all educators, dance teachers, daycare providers and early childhood specialists, OT's and PT's, parents and children! Join us at the Creative Dance Center as we laugh, learn, discover, and dance. Our Educator/Community Workshops are led by an incredible group of presenters who are highly respected and sought after in their fields of expertise. We'll share classes, information, and material that will keep you, your students, and children engaged and enlivened by tapping into the nature of creativity and true learning. 5% discount given for multiple participant registrations or when one participant registers for more than one workshop. Clock hours available for $10 check written to PSESD on day of workshop for these workshops: BrainDance and BrainDance Variations; Movement Matters: Brain-Compatible Movement, Ages 3-5; Brain-Compatible Dance Education K-8; Movement Matters: Brain-Compatible Movement, Ages 0-2; Folk and Historical Dance Through Time and Cultures. To receive clock hours the Creative Dance Center must be notified 3 weeks prior to the workshop date. Workshops are held at the Creative Dance Center in our open, beautiful studio space.

Titles and list of workshops is followed by workshop descriptions and presenter biographies, or click on the links below to view the descriptions or biographies.

BrainDance and BrainDance Variations Breathe. Balance. Isolate. Integrate. Sunday September 16, 2007 1:00-4:00pm with Anne Green Gilbert $60 Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.
Brain-Compatible Ballet for Studio Teachers Teaching Technique, Nurturing Creativity, Honoring the Whole Dancer Sunday October 14, 2007 1:00-4:00pm with Terry Goetz $60
Lower Body Grounding Workshop Sunday November 11, 2007 2:00-4:00pm with Carol Schouboe, CMA $30.00
Movement Matters: Brain-Compatible Movement, Ages 3-5 Sunday November 18, 2007 1:00-4:00pm with Terry Goetz $60 Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.
Winter Solstice Movement Choir Friday December 21, 2007 7:00 pm-9:00 pm with Carol Schouboe, CMA $10.00 with pre-registration, $14.00 drop in
Brain-Compatible Dance Education K-8 Sunday January 13, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Anne Green Gilbert $60 Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.
Movement Matters: Brain-Compatible Movement, Ages 0-2 Sunday February 10, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Terry Goetz $60 Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.
Folk and Historical Dance Through Time and Cultures Sunday March 2, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Anne Green Gilbert and Anna Mansbridge $60 Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.
Movement Stories for Preschool Dance Sunday April 20, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Helen Landalf $60

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Creative Dance Center's Educator/Community Workshop Descriptions and Bios

BrainDance and BrainDance Variations
Breathe. Balance. Isolate. Integrate.
Sunday September 16, 2007 1:00-4:00pm with Anne Green Gilbert $60
Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.

Join Anne Green Gilbert as she shares the origins and philosophy of the BrainDance. After Anne has taken you through the eight developmental movement patterns humans move through in the first year of life that wire the central nervous system, you will have a new appreciation and deeper understanding of how movement and the brain are linked. The BrainDance may be done in dance studios, classrooms, homes, and offices. The BrainDance may be done in a variety of ways, sparking new connections in the brain and body; alone, with partners, sitting in a chair, lying on the floor or standing. Moving through these developmental patterns at any age may correct flaws in perceptual processing, enhance lifelong learning, and integrate body and mind for optimal brain function. Some benefits include; improved alignment, connectivity, and expressivity; brain oxygenation; reorganization of the neurological system; and development of core support. You will leave this workshop with the practical, hands on knowledge and experience to bring the BrainDance into your life and the lives of others. Participants will also learn variations to keep the BrainDance fresh, novel, and engaging. The BrainDance is a profoundly flexible movement tool that is sequential and holistic. Don't miss this opportunity!

Anne Green Gilbert started her teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Chicago where she first used movement to teach the academic curriculum. In 1981, Anne founded the Creative Dance Center, a school specializing in dance education for infants through adults and Kaleidoscope, a modern dance company of young people. Anne is the author of Teaching the Three Rs Through Movement (1977), Creative Dance for All Ages (1992), and Brain-Compatible Dane Education (2006). She has produced two DVD's, Teaching Creative Dance (2002) and BrainDance (2003). As a member of the Arts Education Standards project, she helped write the Washington State Dance Standards and Learning Goals. Anne has received a number of awards for her teaching and service to dance education including the prestigious American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Honor Award (1999) and the NDA Dance Scholar/Artist Award (2005). Anne directs the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers, now in it's 13th year at the Creative Dance Center, and is in demand throughout the world for her fun, engaging, and transforming workshops.

Brain-Compatible Ballet for Studio Teachers
Teaching Technique, Nurturing Creativity, Honoring the Whole Dancer
Sunday October 14, 2007 1:00-4:00pm with Terry Goetz $60

Creativity. Choice and discovery. Imagining, inventing, and manipulating what is known into something new and different. Not the usual words used to describe a typical ballet class. The focus of traditional ballet class is to prepare technically proficient dancers through practice and repetition. Yet we want our dancers to be artists as well as technicians. This workshop will give you specific tools to train dancers while supporting and nurturing the whole person inside the body. Learn how brain-compatible and conceptual teaching principles encourage, support, and excite your students about their own creative potential. Learn how to use the BrainDance as a warm-up before barre to integrate body and mind and improve focus and concentration. Experience how the BrainDance patterns enhance core support, connectivity, and alignment and bring about deeper understanding of dance technique. Workshop will include discussion and a conceptual, brain-compatible ballet class, giving you hands-on knowledge you can begin to use with your students immediately!

Theresa Goetz is Director of Education and Outreach for the Creative Dance Center in Seattle, Washington. Terry has been on the faculty of the Creative Dance Center since 2000 and began training intensively with Anne Green Gilbert in 1997. Terry has taught in preschools, elementary classrooms, and dance studios throughout the Seattle area since retiring from Pacific Northwest Ballet in 1995. Prior to performing with PNB, she was a member of Pittsburgh Ballet Theater from 1986-1988. She presents to PEPS groups and Early Childhood specialists focusing on the importance of movement in the early years of life, and trains educators in BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education. Terry is an active member of the NDEO and DEAW.

Lower Body Grounding Workshop
Sunday November 11, 2007 2:00-4:00pm with Carol Schouboe, CMA $30.00

Lower body grounding is needed for upper body extension into space. In our passive, sitting culture we tend to lose access to the neurological intelligence of the lower body. The grounding of the lower body is imperative to maintaining strength and support of the pelvis and spine and aids in reaching through our heads and arms into space. This workshop will emphasize alignment of foot, ankle, knee, and hip; mechanisms of yield and push, reach and pull; and sequencing of push to support pelvic floor and spinal health, pelvic shift, and to lengthen and strengthen the spine through the head. We will look at how the push to reach sequence helps to sit and stand, walk, run, jump, and adds dynamism to dance and other forms of movement. Explore how lower grounding is necessary for mutual support and weight sharing and brings a sense of dynamic alignment to dance technique. We will work individually, with partners, and in groups.

Carol Schouboe, CMA, is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and an Advanced Bartenieff Movement Practitioner. She has been an assistant faculty member with the Laban Certification Program and the Integrated Movement Studies Certificate Program. She is a movement educator and has been in private practice as a Movement Therapist for 19 years working with dancers, athletes, martial artists, and people with injuries and developmental concerns. Carol is currently interested in building community through movement.

Movement Matters: Brain-Compatible Movement, Ages 3-5
Sunday November 18, 2007 1:00-4:00pm with Terry Goetz $60
Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.

Come learn about the important connection between movement and the developing brains of young children. Find out why providing a rich, multi-sensory world for children to explore in the first five years of life supports optimal brain development. Learn the preschool BrainDance and move through the fundamental movement patterns that wire the brain and central nervous system in the early years of life. The BrainDance, done on a daily basis, can be beneficial for social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. The workshop will be a blend of discussion and movement experiences that are developmentally appropriate for preschoolers. Participants will learn how the fifteen dance concepts we explore through creative movement are made up of simple and clear contrasting elements. Discover how young children experience balance in body and mind while having fun exploring, creating, and responding within the framework of brain-compatible teaching. This workshop is a must for anyone interested in making sure that children are given the opportunity to develop to their full potential in the early years of life. Daycare providers, preschool teachers, parents, caregivers, OTs, PTs, and dance teachers are all welcome.

Theresa Goetz is Director of Education and Outreach for the Creative Dance Center in Seattle, Washington. Terry has been on the faculty of the Creative Dance Center since 2000 and began training intensively with Anne Green Gilbert in 1997. Terry has taught in preschools, elementary classrooms, and dance studios throughout the Seattle area since retiring from Pacific Northwest Ballet in 1995. Prior to performing with PNB, she was a member of Pittsburgh Ballet Theater from 1986-1988. She presents to PEPS groups and Early Childhood specialists focusing on the importance of movement in the early years of life, and trains educators in BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education. Terry is an active member of the NDEO and DEAW.

Winter Solstice Movement Choir
Friday December 21, 2007 7:00 pm-9:00 pm with Carol Schouboe, CMA
$10.00 with pre-registration, $14.00 drop in

Come and dance the dark away! You are invited to join in an adult Movement Choir celebrating the Winter Solstice. Movement choir, created by Rudolf Laban, is a process of bringing diverse communities of people together, synergistically blending individual movement expression toward a common purpose. The intention of this Movement Choir is to explore and embody our reflections and meditations on what it means to enliven ourselves as individuals and as a collective to find the heat within, when the heat without has waned. This celebration is a fun and playful evening of dancing together and is open to adults. Feel free to bring a friend. Musician Tom Bergersen will provide live music on drums.

Carol Schouboe, CMA, is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and an Advanced Bartenieff Movement Practitioner. She has been an assistant faculty member with the Laban Certification Program and the Integrated Movement Studies Certificate Program. She is a movement educator and has been in private practice as a Movement Therapist for 19 years working with dancers, athletes, martial artists, and people with injuries and developmental concerns. Carol is currently interested in building community through movement.

Brain-Compatible Dance Education K-8
Sunday January 13, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Anne Green Gilbert $60
Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.

Join Anne Green Gilbert as she shares the philosophy of brain-compatible teaching, the subject of her newest book published in 2006, Brain-Compatible Dance Education. Using current research on how the brain is wired, learns, and retains information, Anne's brain-compatible teaching methods are a fabulous tool for educators (classroom, PE, music, dance), caregivers, and parents. Through movement and discussion Anne will take participants through her patently successful five-part conceptual lesson plan format and the brain-compatible principles that underpin it. Discover how incorporating these principles into your teaching and life can positively affect class management, creativity, behavior, learning, and focus. Gain confidence in how to combine the mastery of movement with the artistry of expression for yourself, your children, or students. Experience how conceptual and brain-compatible teaching supports improvisational problem solving, dance technique, skill development, cognition, social and emotional connections with peers and adults, and nurtures creativity as dancers learn and play with the craft of dance composition. This workshop is tremendously beneficial for the studio dance teacher and the classroom educator, as well as those who want to provide a supportive environment for learning and change.

Anne Green Gilbert started her teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Chicago where she first used movement to teach the academic curriculum. In 1981, Anne founded the Creative Dance Center, a school specializing in dance education for infants through adults and Kaleidoscope, a modern dance company of young people. Anne is the author of Teaching the Three Rs Through Movement (1977), Creative Dance for All Ages (1992), and Brain-Compatible Dane Education (2006). She has produced two DVD's, Teaching Creative Dance (2002) and BrainDance (2003). As a member of the Arts Education Standards project, she helped write the Washington State Dance Standards and Learning Goals. Anne has received a number of awards for her teaching and service to dance education including the prestigious American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Honor Award (1999) and the NDA Dance Scholar/Artist Award (2005). Anne directs the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers, now in it's 13th year at the Creative Dance Center, and is in demand throughout the world for her fun, engaging, and transforming workshops.

Movement Matters: Brain-Compatible Movement, Ages 0-2
Sunday February 10, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Terry Goetz $60
Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.

Come learn about the important connection between movement and the developing brains of babies and toddlers. Find out why tummy-time is crucial in the first year of life and why providing a rich, multi-sensory world for infants and toddlers to explore supports optimal brain development. Being actively engaged in and educated about baby's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development in the first two years of life is an empowering and joyful experience for caregivers and parents. Learn how to encourage tummy-time so baby can naturally move through the early movement patterns that wire the central nervous system and brain. Participate in a Nurturing Baby and Parent/Toddler class and learn the toddler BrainDance, giving you the knowledge and confidence to support movement and have fun dancing with infants and toddlers. Early dance and multi-sensory experiences build healthy brains and integrated bodies, creating the strong foundation from which children can explore a lifetime of learning. This workshop is a must for anyone interested in making sure that children are given the opportunity to develop to their full potential in the early years of life. Daycare providers, preschool teachers, parents, caregivers, OTs, PTs, and dance teachers are all welcome.

Theresa Goetz is Director of Education and Outreach for the Creative Dance Center in Seattle, Washington. Terry has been on the faculty of the Creative Dance Center since 2000 and began training intensively with Anne Green Gilbert in 1997. She teaches Nurturing Baby, Parent/Toddler, and Parent/Child Creative Dance classes and Ballet and Modern Dance for older children and adults. Terry has taught in preschools, elementary classrooms, and studios throughout the Seattle area since retiring from Pacific Northwest Ballet in 1995. Prior to performing with PNB, she was a member of Pittsburgh Ballet Theater from 1986-1988. She presents to PEPS groups and Early Childhood specialists focusing on the importance of movement in the early years of life, as well as training educators in BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education. Terry is an active member of the NDEO and DEAW.

Folk and Historical Dance Through Time and Cultures
Sunday March 2, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Anne Green Gilbert and Anna Mansbridge
Participants wanting clock hours ($10 check to PSESD) must notify CDC 3 weeks prior to workshop date.

In this workshop co-presented by early dance expert Anna Mansbridge and BrainDance guru Anne Green Gilbert, participants will have the opportunity to learn selected folk dances from around the world as well as dances from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Throughout history and across different cultures, dancing in the community has meant people coming together for the pleasure of moving their bodies to music, socializing, and having fun. Period costumes and information on the manners and etiquette of the day bring history to life in this workshop! Learn how culture and environment influenced the many styles of folk and historical dance. From the Renaissance, dance the lively Peas "Popping" Branle and Washerwoman's Branle, caper through the English Country dances Rufty Tufty and Epping Forest, and from the Baroque period dance along with Jeanne Who Jumps. Travel the world as we dance Tanko Bushi from Japan, Woaf from Austria, Pata Pata from South Africa, Los Machetes from Mexico, and many more! These dances are a wonderful complement and addition to music, PE, and dance classes. Folk and historical dance fosters a sense of community, teaches rhythmic and cultural awareness, and improves and develops cognitive skills such as sequencing and pattern memorization. This workshop is a fun community event for families and teachers! Instructional materials will be available for purchase.

Anne Green Gilbert started her teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Chicago where she first used movement to teach the academic curriculum. In 1981, Anne founded the Creative Dance Center, a school specializing in dance education for infants through adults and Kaleidoscope, a modern dance company of young people. Anne is the author of Teaching the Three Rs Through Movement (1977), Creative Dance for All Ages (1992), and Brain-Compatible Dane Education (2006). She has produced two DVD's, Teaching Creative Dance (2002) and BrainDance (2003). As a member of the Arts Education Standards project, she helped write the Washington State Dance Standards and Learning Goals. Anne has received a number of awards for her teaching and service to dance education including the prestigious American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Honor Award (1999) and the NDA Dance Scholar/Artist Award (2005). Anne directs the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers, now in it's 13th year at the Creative Dance Center, and is in demand throughout the world for her fun, engaging, and transforming workshops.

Anna Mansbridge, Artistic Director of Seattle Early Dance, holds a First Class Honors Degree in Dance and Education from Bedford College, U.K., and an M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance from Mills College, California. She has been teaching and performing early European Court Dance (16th-18th centuries) since 1990. Anna is on the faculty of the Cascade Early Music Festival, Accademia d'Amore, and The Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera, and was Assistant Director for the Early Music Guild's production of Monteverdi's Poppea. Anna is on the faculty of the Creative Dance Center, where she teaches creative dance, modern and ballet to people of all ages.

Movement Stories for Preschool Dance
Sunday April 20, 2008 1:00-4:00pm with Helen Landalf $60

Preschool children love stories - which makes storytelling a wonderful and effective tool for presenting Creative Dance concepts to preschoolers. Join veteran preschool dance educator Helen Landalf for an engaging workshop based on her popular book Movement Stories for Young Children (co-authored with Pamela Gerke). Discover what makes a good Movement Story and how Movement Stories can stand alone or fit into a conceptually-based Creative Dance lesson. You will have an opportunity to become acquainted with some of Helen's most successful stories as well as to create story ideas of your own. Preschool teachers and dance educators alike will find this workshop useful, informative…and fun!

Helen Landalf has been teaching Creative Dance in local preschools since 1987. She is the author of five books for teachers, including Moving the Earth: Teaching Earth Science through Movement and Moving is Relating: Exploring Interpersonal Skills through Movement.