Dance Educators Training Institute 2015

Calling educators, teaching artists, dancers and arts administrators:
How do you revamp your dance pedagogy and refuel your educational interests for 2015? 

 The 2015 Dance Educators Training Institute
awakening the kinesthesia and rejuvenating your educator spirit

August 3rd-7th, 2015
10am-4:30pm

University of Maryland Baltimore County- Department of Dance
Performing Arts & Humanities Building
2nd Floor, 231
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

ClancyWorks Dance Company and Baltimore County Public Schools Office of Dance co-present the Dance Educators Training Institute (DETI). This intensive professional development program facilitated by reputed leaders in the danced education field provides a 30-hour week of training workshops in August and a one-on-one mentorship program during the academic year. The DETI is suitable for teaching artists of in-school/after-school programs in public/private schools working throughout MD/VA/DC. Excellent opportunity for choreographers, performers, highly experienced dance educators and artists just beginning to work in education. Administrators/teachers from other educational arts disciplines are welcome.

Watch what we’re talking about: https://vimeo.com/124644479

Tracks of Study:
Curriculum Designs, Assessments and Considerations 
Dance and Technology 
Dance Science and Somatics 
Dance Technique Classes- Modern Techniques and World Dance Genres 
Composition, Improvisation, Partnering 

DETI is co-directed by Founding Director, Adrienne Clancy, PhD, MFA and BCPS Dance Resource Teacher, Sonia Synkowski, MFA. DETI Co-founder Suzanne Hennaman received the NDEO 2013 Outstanding Leadership Award while Dr. Clancy was awarded the 2013 Dance Educator of the Year by the National Dance Education Organization as well as the 2014 Montgomery County Executive’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Education Award. 

Facilitators include: Adriane Fang (MFA), Jeffery Gunshol (MFA), Rima Faber (PhD), Suzanne Hennaman, Karen Kuebler, Sonia Synkowski (MFA), and others. 

Earn credits for attending DETI 2015
Continuing Professional Development Course (CPD)

This Dance Composition and Design course is an examination of the choreographic tools and processes through the development of improvisational techniques, compositional basics, the elements of compositional design, and the critical response process as well as the creation of new choreography. This course supports the mentoring of student compositions and refinement of best practices for compositional development at all instructional levels. To receive MSDE credit for attending DETI participants must register using the BCPS on-line registration system.

Credit Requirements: (1 credit, 15 hours of instruction)
Attendance to at least 15 hours of the DETI and submission of a lesson plan that demonstrates the use of dance composition and design is required. Participants respond to written reflection evaluations at the conclusion of the DETI. 

Tuition:
Register by June 15 for early bird discount!

$300/week ($275 early bird)
$80/day
$25/session

To learn more and register visit http://www.clancyworks.org/deti/, call 301.717.9271 or email DETI.Programs@ClancyWorks.org. Find us on facebook at ClancyWorks Dance Company or on twitter @clancyworks.

DETI Sponsors:
ClancyWorks Dance Company
Baltimore County Public Schools
Capital Region Educators of Dance Organization (CREDO)
Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences