Below you will find a list of upcoming workshops and events. Please check back by this summer, as we hope to have a full line-up of next year's events!
Location:
Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
Time: 9-3
August 29: Kris Versteegt
Making Connections: Using Manipulatives to Keep the Fundamentals Fresh and Fun
Kris VerSteegt is currently teaching general music at Ashland Ridge Elementary in Ankeny, Iowa. She holds a bachelor of music degree from Iowa State University and is currently enrolled in the Master of Music Education program at the University of Northern Iowa. She has also completed two levels of Orff-Schulwerk and Kodály through Drake University.
In 2003, Kris founded the Kodály Educators of Iowa (KEI), an affiliate chapter of the Organization of American Kodály Educators, and served as their first president and as a board member for several years. As an ongoing member of KEI, Kris has presented short segments and workshops on a variety of subjects including listening lessons, folk dances, singing games, manipulatives, and technology integration. Outside of KEI, Kris has presented workshops on music technology, using manipulatives, and folk dancing.
October 10: Jacque Schrader
Inspirations in Movement
Jacqueline Schrader currently teaches music and movement to children in pre-school through age 13 at the Key School in Annapolis, MD. Additionally, she is the Pre-School and Lower School Orff Schulwerk Coordinator. Her 5th grade children were featured at the AOSA Conference in Philadelphia.
For the last 20 summers she has been helping to train Orff Schulwerk teachers from around the world. She is currently the movement teacher at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota, where she received three levels of Orff training as well as a master class. She also teaches Level II Ensemble at George Mason University in Virginia and at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
In l983, she was given the NJMEA Master Teacher Award. She was the youngest recipient in the history of the award. In l984 she was given the NJ Governor's Award for Excellence in Arts Education. She served on the AOSA Board of Trustees from1995-2000.
A highly sought after, internationally known clinician, Jacque spent the spring semester of l999 studying on a scholarship at the Orff Institute, Salzburg. Jacque has presented workshops at 16 AOSA Conferences and at AOSA chapters in over 30 states. She has taught in Taiwan, and in the summer of 2001 she was sponsored by the Carl Orff Foundation and AOSA to teach at the first international Orff course in Nitra, Slovakia. Since then, she taught at the international course in Krackow, Poland, Strobl, Austria and Bejiing, China.
This workshop will present sequenced music and movement activities appropriate for 1st through 6th grade. We will explore creative movement as well as structured dance, focusing as the process of teaching movement to children. Pieces from the Murray Volumes will be woven into these activities, as well as poetry, literature and fine art. In addition, we'll explore hand drumming and singing. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring your soprano recorder!
January 16: Chapter Sharing
April 17: Peter and Mary Alice Amidon
Creating a Dynamic Learning Community with Traditional Dance, Song and Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:
Peter and Mary Alice Amidon's teacher workshop focuses on the community building power of traditional dance, song and storytelling in the schools. They will teach some great traditional dances and singing games for children while sharing dance-teaching tips and discussing how to make dance a positive and integral part of school life. They will demonstrate enriching picture books with singing, storytelling, drama and background music. The Amidons will tell at least one folktale and discuss and demonstrate how to use storytelling as a powerful teaching tool. They will share some of their favorite songs while discussing starting and sustaining an all-school sing. The Amidons hope that this workshop will help music teachers transform their schools into singing and dancing communities.
BIO:
Peter and Mary Alice Amidon are versatile and widely respected performing and teaching artists who for over twenty years have dedicated themselves to traditional song, dance and storytelling. Both former elementary school music teachers, the Amidons are equally at home doing a concert of stories and songs for adults or children; calling a community dance for all ages; leading harmony singing workshops with adults; or doing an elementary school residency or a teacher workshop of singing, storytelling and traditional dance. The Amidons have been headliners at National OAKE and Orff Schulwerk Conferences. They lead regional Orff and Kodaly weekend workshops throughout the country. They are familiar faces at the major northeast U.S. music and dance festivals and at summer folk camps of traditional dance and song. They have performed concerts and led residencies in hundreds of schools.
Thousands of teachers and parents have shared the Amidons' music through their albums of songs for all ages. And thousands of educators and community dance leaders have led children and adults in traditional American and English dances and singing games gleaned from the books, recordings and DVD produced by New England Dancing Masters Productions: Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, Andy Davis and Mary Cay Brass.
