Education

ARTSPLUS is a TEKS aligned, arts-in-education program directed and taught by Andrea Ariel, Artistic Director of Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre, based in Austin, TX. Founded in 1995, the program shares the belief with Austin ISD that creativity is essential to nurture and develop the whole child.

AADT is an Austin ISD approved vendor. A specific program is designed by working closely with the needs and goals of principals and teachers for grade levels PreK-12.

• Classroom Residencies & Master Classes

• Large Group Assembly Workshops & Company Performances/Lecture Demonstrations

• Choreography for Programs for Student Performances

• Professional Development for Teachers

ARTSPLUS offers a unique experience aimed to empower students to explore realities, relationships, and ideas through creative dance, music and theater. The program advances learning by incorporating TEKS subjects in math, science, language, and social studies. This diverse content engages and motivates students through active learning, critical thinking, and innovative problem solving. ARTSPLUS crosses disciplines and advances student progress in learning dance, music, art, and theater as well as their academic achievement using creative movement and theater structures. The program provides a foundation and vehicle for physical development and well-being, and creative expression integrating learning in other academic contents and disciplines, individually and in groups, while fully supporting SEL.

Schools can bring together multiple classes for large group assembly workshops, company performances or lecture demonstrations that will provide an interactive and learning experience for students of all grade levels.

ARTSPLUS offers professional development for teachers through workshops and co-teaching curriculums in the classroom with defined goals that lead to sharing strategies for using movement and other structures to enhance learning across all subjects.

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In conjunction with a performance of SOUNDPAINTING or standing alone, these workshops will introduce your students to the sign language system of conducted improvisation called Soundpainting. Working as a team or as an orchestra, students will learn to explore themes and create performance landscapes by improvising and collaborating within a tightly structured system.

Soundpainting language is accessible to all students, from preschoolers to collegians to those with special needs. By engaging multiple learning styles (verbal, visual, aural, and kinesthetic) for exploring creativity, Soundpainting breaks through boundaries, tapping into reservoirs of skills and expression that help students better understand themselves and the world in which they live while learning and exploring the art forms of dance, theater and music. For ALL levels.

More about SOUNDPAINTING

As we introduce aesthetic and physical concepts of dance and creative movement we will bring focus toward learning about choreography and composition to create a dance that will be performed.

As students gain an understanding of dance concepts and develop individual movement vocabularies they will be given structures to compose a dance with their creations. Movement vocabulary is also taught to enhance the advancement of skills such as perception (eye to muscle coordination), movement qualities and dynamics, spatial relationships, performance, group interaction and communication, and memory. Skill achievement confidence is enhanced through the repetition and rehearsal of a dance that the students have engaged in the creation of.

This program is for ALL levels and ages, and can include a special focus for at-risk youth and adults in recovery programs. Working closely with the artistic director, Andrea Ariel, unique programs are designed to meet the specific need of the presenter’s community, business or school. This residency can be created in connection with a new work that is being developed by the company.

• for Youth or Adults
• Recovery Programs

This three to twelve-week program explores creative writing, abstract art concepts through drawing and painting, and creative movement to inspire ongoing, individual life structures for creative expression. The program utilizes concepts drawn from the cubist art movement, which was born in a search for opening doors to creativity through the discovery of a new reality or perspective. Concerned with the “essence” of things and their underlying structure, cubists looked at objects not from one side but from above, below and behind. Using these concepts, students/participants will dig in to find images, symbols and create writings that lead to self-portrait paintings and dances, culminating with the group creation of a collage movement painting.

All classes are taught by Andrea Ariel, Artistic Director of Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre and a teacher of dance, creative movement, theater, and physical conditioning for adults and children for over 30 years. Andrea brings a depth of experience working with people of all ages and abilities. For more information or to discuss a program specific to your needs contact Andrea HERE.