DANCE CHINA NY

Dance China NY is the resident company of the New York Chinese Cultural Center. Company members include master award-winning dancers and musicians from China and the United States.

China Patterns (Grades K-12)

This dance program, performed in full traditional Chinese costumes, introduces students to Chinese culture through language lessons, historical background, onstage demonstrations and audience interaction. The dances and narration illustrate and explain traits, customs and patterns of Chinese life. Students are given the tools to interpret the dance movements as expressions of what people do, see and feel. Length: 45 minutes

Single Performance: $1,395

Back to Back Performances: $1,600

Three Performances: $2,020

Lion Dance Plus (Grades K-12)

Several Dance pieces and an participatory segment with 4 dancers.  Dances include:  Lion Dance, Mongolian Dance, Monkey King, Fan Dance, Ribbon Dance and Lion and Ribbon demo. Length 45 Minutes 

Single Performance:  $1120

Back to Back Performances: $1390

Three Performances: $1660

WORKSHOPS

Chinese Fan or Ribbon Dance Workshop (Grades: K-12)

Students work with professional dancers to learn Chinese ribbon or fan dance techniques. Drawing from the lesson, students discover how movement evoke feelings and images; how different movements are integrated and combined to create new ones; and how to begin composing a group dance. The 45-minute lesson includes learning Chinese hand gestures and their symbolic meanings, stories about how Chinese dances began and how they relate to everyday life, simple Chinese language and vocabulary and dance routines for groups and individuals. In an extended residency, students can also learn a complete Chinese dance to perform for the rest of the school. Length: 45 minutes

Calligraphy or Landscape Painting or Paper Cutting or Name Seal Carving Workshop (Grades: K-12)

Our experienced, professional artists work with students in a variety of traditional Chinese art forms, providing background information and unique hands-on experiences. Length: 45 minutes

2 Workshops: $800 plus $25 per class

4 Workshops: $1080 plus $25 per class  

 

Curriculum Links:

Social Studies, Physical Education, Music, Language Arts, Visual Art, Danceworkshop paragraph text

Study Guide Dance China NY

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Young Audiences Arts for Learning Connecticut: Our mission is to integrate the arts into the lives of children in educational and community settings. Our vision for Connecticut is that all children realize their potential through the arts; that the arts are valued for their ability to improve our schools and communities; that, by participation in the arts, children come to understand and value themselves, their neighbors, and the world cultures they share.

We are an Affiliate of VSA arts… an international nonprofit organization that is creating a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts.

We offer educational classroom workshops, school cultural programs, school arts programs, assembly programs, arts integration programs, artist in residence programs – bringing theater, music, drama, puppetry, visual arts, storytelling, drawing, painting, history and cultural arts to the classroom.