Dance for the Arts! YANJEP’s Gala, DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Dancing Through The Decades, Raises over $200,000 for Arts Education!
On Saturday, April 22, Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania (YA), the area’s largest arts education non-profit, celebrated with a special black tie gala, Dazzle: Mad Hot Ballroom, Dancing Through the Decades at the Princeton Hyatt. The benefit included a performance by students of YA’s Camden Adopt-A-School initiative currently participating in a hip hop...
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Dance for the Arts! YANJEP’s Gala, DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Dancing Through The Decades, Raises over $200,000 for Arts Education!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Date: May 3, 2017 PRESS CONTACT: Denyce Mylson Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania 609-243-9000 x202 dmylson@yanjep.org Dance for the Arts! Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania’s Gala, DAZZLE: MAD HOT BALLROOM Dancing Through The Decades, Raises over $200,000 for Arts Education! PRINCETON, NJ; May 3, 2017 — On Saturday,...
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Nimbus Dance Works Honoring YA’s Dance to Learn Program at Annual Gala on April 7th
Join Nimbus Dance Works for a special evening of dance at Jersey City’s White Eagle Hall PROLIFERATE: Jersey City Performance & Gala at White Eagle Hall: Friday 4/7 7:30pm This co-presentation of Nimbus Dance Works and Jersey City Theater Center features Nimbus in All Star Ball Passing Redux, Charles Moulton’s renowned masterwork; audience favorite Mapping, by UK Choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller; Nimbus Artistic Director Samuel Pott’s Surface...
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Upcoming Arts Integration Professional Learning Opportunities
ARTS EDUCATION TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SERIES Young Audiences would like to bring ONE THEATER focused professional learning opportunity and TWO DANCE focused professional learning opportunities to your attention. Please see the flyers below for more information. THEATER TO LEARN April 6, 2017 9:00 -3:00 DANCE TO LEARN and Arts Integration through Breakdancing April 27, 2017 9:00-3:00 Download...
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Putting the ART in HeART
“I can’t think of a better time than Valentine’s Day to thank our donors and share the impact of your donations on the children and educators of our region.” -Michele Russo, President & CEO We’re launching this e-newsletter to keep you up-to-date (and inspired) about the transformative work of arts education happening in classrooms everyday....
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Why We LOVE the Arts
1. The arts teach children to make GOOD JUDGMENTS about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. 2. The arts teach children that problems can have MORE than ONE solution and that questions can have more than...
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Celebrate Black History Month with your Students!
Young Audiences Artist Spotlight: Black History Month Hip Hop Fundamentals The American Civil Rights struggle is brought to students through hip hop dance Civil Rights Movements Students will be inspired by this performance, which focuses on youth involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement as seen through the eyes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Patricia Jones Joins YA Team as Arts Education Program Associate!
Meet Patricia Jones, YA’s new Arts Education Program Associate! Patricia “Peaches” Jones is a movement artist specializing in dances and rhythms of the African Diaspora. She has been honored to study diasporic movement, rhythm, and culture for over 20 years with amazing artists and teachers from Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. In addition...
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