Lecture Demonstrations
CPYB’s Lecture Demonstration Program
CPYB will design a program to meet the needs of your school’s curriculum. By using dance as the means, you can teach storytelling methods, orchestral music, choreography, early American history, costuming, and much more. Past programs have been focused on Colonial dance, African dance, dance costumes, and introduction to dance. You can also supplement these demonstrations by attending one of our School Day Performances.
Storytelling through Dance
Each program is approximately 55 minutes
Minimum requested donation: $250.00
Since ancient times, stories have been handed down from generation to generation as a way of bringing people together and also as a way to teach the young important life lessons. Challenge your students to tell a story through movement and body language, without voice.
- Introduction
- Lecture/demonstration about the art forms of storytelling and movement
- Student participation activity
- Dance performance of an excerpt of a “story” ballet such as Cinderella or The Pied Piper
Multicultural Dance
Each program is approximately 55 minutes
Minimum requested donation: $250.00
Are your students studying world cultures or anthropological customs? Let them feel the rhythm and music of those cultures first-hand.
- Introduction
- Opening dance sequence
- Lecture/demonstration about the history of social dance, the part it has played and continues to play in society and emphasizes the difference between ethnic/social dance and dance as an art form. This also includes authentic ethnic choreography as well as ballet pieces reflecting those influences
- Short performance by the “home” school’s own students (pre-arranged)
Understanding Classical Ballet
Each program is approximately 55 minutes
Minimum requested donation: $250.00
Ballet is a unique and rich art form that has been well-preserved since its earliest beginnings in the 1400s in Italy. As ballet technique has changed over the centuries, dancers have become veritable athletes, accomplishing amazing technical feats in leaps and turns. However, ballet is also very much an art form of communication through movement or dance, and as such, can teach us much about our own culture, our bodies and our spirits.
- Introduction
- Opening dance sequence
- Lecture/demonstration about the history and technical process of ballet and developing a dancer
- Student participation activity: comparing athletics to dance
- Dance performance: samples that reflect the concepts presented in the demonstration
- Question & answer session: directed to the dancers
From Ballet to Ballroom
This program is $75.00 for approximately every 50 students.
Each program consists of about 25 students and is one hour in length. Groups of more than 25 students will be broken into these smaller groups.
CPYB will come directly to your school to teach the program!
Ballet is a unique and rich art form that has been well-preserved since its earliest beginnings in the 1400s in Italy. As ballet technique has changed over the centuries, dancers have become veritable athletes, accomplishing amazing technical feats in leaps and turns. Ballet is an art form of communication through movement, and as such, can teach us much about our own culture, our bodies and our spirits. Ballet is also the foundation for many other styles of dance, including ballroom. Ballroom dance dates back to England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Over the years, its popularity grew throughout Europe and then expanded to the Americas. Through ballroom dancing and its various movements, we can begin to learn skills such as teamwork and coordination.В The cultural aspects of ballroom also demonstrate a melting pot of many different ethnicities and their unique ways of celebration and expression through dance. Each program will contain:
- A lecture/demonstration about the history and technical process of ballet and ballroom and the development of a dancer
- A student participation activity: flexibility and balance
- A ballroom dance lesson
- Question and answer session
For more information about these programs, contact CPYB Director of Educational Outreach, Bryan Matluk, at 717-245-1183, or matluk@cpyb.org.
