Building Resilience And Hope Through Dance!
This workshop is inspired by Bessel van der Kolk’s bestseller The Body Keeps the Score. Dance, role-playing, and music hold powerful potential for healing the mind and soul, offering ways to share emotions without words. This movement-based workshop invites students to tell stories drawn from their own experiences, such as times when they overcame a challenge and discovered success or hope within themselves. The goal of this workshop is to encourage young people to share their stories of strength and empowerment through dance. Through movement and choreography, they will communicate powerful stories that inspire others, transcending the boundaries of language without speaking a single word.
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Marie Klepacz is Arts Ignite’s Senior Program Manager and a former special educator. Marie served two years as an AmeriCorps volunteer and a Teach for America Corps Member, which propelled her to better understand the deep-rooted issues of inequity in education. This motivation led to her earning her M.Ed. in Curriculum & Teaching from Boston University. Marie’s professional philosophy is that building positive relationships based on trust and compassion is at the core of progress in education and nonprofit work. Marie has a lifelong passion for the arts and helping youth build agency and confidence through their self-expression.
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Arts Ignite is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to inspiring creative capacity, community, and courage in young people of all backgrounds through the arts. Through arts camps, workshops, residencies, and community partnerships, we provide high-quality, arts-rich experiences to thousands of young people across NYC, the United States, and the world. We teach life skills like self-expression, problem solving, and community building, empowering them to be their best selves. Our programs serve youth affected by extreme poverty, forced displacement, periods of homelessness, the justice system, and more, many of whom have been excluded from access to arts education. www.artsignite.org
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