Tag Archives: Performance Project

Performance Project at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy

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By Emily Pitcher
dancer instructor for the San Francisco Ballet Center for Dance Education's Dance in Schools and Communities program (DISC).
February 11, 2010
Since mid-January, Mr. Hall’s third grade class at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy has been rehearsing every Tuesday afternoon. They are gearing up for their performance at the DeYoung Museum on May 8. Charles McNeal and I completed our ten-week residency through the Dance in Schools and Communities (DISC) program with these students in the [...]
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Rehearsals Begin

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By Erica Rose Jeffrey
Dancer Instructor with the Center for Dance Education at San Francisco Ballet
January 29, 2010
Today was our fourth rehearsal for the Performance Project at Redding Elementary located in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. I am working with a class of 3rd graders who are relatively new to dance having just completed a ten-week workshop with the Dance in Schools program this fall. They are an incredibly diverse group with multiple language spoken in their classroom. [...]
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Taking it to the Stage!

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By Stacey Blakeman
Dance in Schools and Communities Manager at San Francisco Ballet
January 21, 2010
Even for an arts educator, teaching dance is never an easy thing.  This winter and spring, four dancer instructors (including myself) from SF Ballet’s Center for Dance Education (CDE) will meet the challenge and choreograph original dance compositions for students in four San Francisco elementary schools. This program is called the Performance Project. After 16 [...]
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