Adaptive Dance (Session II)

Adaptive Dance (Session II)

Children & Teens | This class is completed

Ages: 11+

11/3/2020-12/15/2020

6:10 PM-7:10 PM PDT on Tue

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$94.00 USD

Adaptive Dance is a brain-compatible creative dance class for students of all abilities/disabilities. Using brain-based teaching strategies, Adaptive Dance provides a balance of skill development and creative expression. The BrainDance, based on fundamental movement patterns, is used as a warm-up at the beginning of class. We celebrate personal creativity, improvisation, and group cooperation by navigating movement together. There are opportunities in class to reflect, share, and participate in active, ongoing conversations about how our bodies individually experience movement. We collectively investigate dance as an internal and external experience, using tools such as imagery and storytelling to guide our movement. Adaptive Dance is a class filled with mindful support and open spaces to develop body awareness and experience social-emotional learning. Participants are welcome to bring support in the form of family or staff to aid their participation.

Sugawara, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Sugawara (she/her) is a creative dance educator supporting art communities that celebrate and value diversity and inclusion. She has a BA in Art History and Dance from UC Santa Cruz, advocating cross- disciplinary art studies in elementary and higher education. Elizabeth continued to study dance improvisation and performance at Copenhagen Contemporary School of Dance and then relocated to the PNW as a teaching artist in Early Childhood Education and Seattle Public Schools, joining the CDC faculty in 2019. As a Seattle-based dance maker and movement artist, Elizabeth continues to perform and support works that value community and the stories of women of color, working with Veronica Lee-Baik (The Three Yells), Maya Soto and Nico Tower (SOTO+TOWER), Alicia Mullikin, Au Collective and many others.