Dance Evert

Written By Bryan Buchko

Tom Evert is a world-class dancer and takes pride in his role as a “Teaching Artist”. In his creation of programming, he is masterful in the instructional approach of integrating the art of dance with the core curriculum.

Also naturally embedded in learning through movement are social emotional skills of attention, feeling, body and breath. This creative and enjoyable workshops offer, “A magical feeling of the wonder of our world and the joy of moving through space”.

Mr. Evert is currently the director of DANCE EVERT , the Company which he founded with his wife Susana in 1986. A native of Cleveland, Tom received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from Ohio University in both Painting and Dance. Upon graduation Tom moved to New York City and established himself as a world- class dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company (1977-85). He is also a drummer and visual artist.

“Mr. Tom” has taught in a vast range of settings such as professional modern and ballet companies, universities, private studios, K-12 schools, and for populations with special needs.

 
 

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Planes of Discovery: Geometry & Physics Through Dance & Origami
Planes of Discovery: Geometry & Physics Through Dance & Origami
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In this cross-curricular, mixed arts residency culminating in a celebratory performance, students will engage in the physics of flight with origami artist James Peake and dancer Tom Evert. Students will practice the elements of dance, engaging their full selves to embody geometric concepts and principles of flight. Next, students will turn gross motor concepts into fine motor as they apply those same concepts to create a dart-nosed paper airplane. In addition to exploring the forces involved in flying an airplane, they will practice using precision, creating sharp, exact folds using tools, physical coordination, and use relevant terminology for origami folding and dance, geometric concepts of axes and symmetry, and physical science concepts of flight. This residency provides space for student-led discovery, physical and conceptual ingenuity, inquiry-based engagement, and cooperative learning.

  • Participants will gain increased precision and attention to detail as they create a paper airplane.

  • Participants will apply understanding of symmetry, forces of flight, and axes as they create and propel a paper airplane.

  • Participants will model and perform movement solutions to demonstrate knowledge of the geometric and scientific concepts for their grade level.

  • Participants will demonstrate spatial awareness and bodily control as defined in the elements of dance.

  • Participants will demonstrate their understanding of concepts in dance, origami, science, math, and social-emotional learning through a summative performance at the conclusion of the residency.

Program Artist(s):

James Peake

Dance Evert

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Artmaking with Geometry (Math Standards)
Artmaking with Geometry (Math Standards)
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Lines, angles, shapes, and space are fundamental elements of both Geometry and Visual Art. This workshop embraces geometric principals which are introduced and defined by drawing them. This prepares us for activities that reveal the structure of our world and the math we use to measure it. As participants strengthen their aptitude for a discerning approach to the study of geometry, they also integrate this geometric work with an artistic expression and skill.  They will enjoy the revelation of these kindred approaches to drawing as a form of mathematical measurement as well as artistic expression.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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Dancing Through the Curriculum
Dancing Through the Curriculum
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Appreciate the power of movement to enliven learning in personal, interpersonal, and curricular areas

This is a fun and engaging workshop for educators that engages participants with examples of integrating either language arts or Geometry with and through movement. This professional development will offer movement solutions to key descriptive words from grade level reading material to interpret the words and create meaning and action. Participants will then work in small groups and use the elements of dance; Body, Energy, Space, and Time to develop our movements into a “dance”, accompanied by music.

Educators will leave this PD with ways to explore and teach movement to their students with activities that integrate learning in several curricular areas. These movement activities provide students an opportunity to process and retain information using multiple-intelligences and social and learning skills.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
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The word Renaissance is French and means ‘rebirth’. In the Great Migration of the 1920’s Harlem, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan in New York City, was a destination for migrating African Americans pursuing employment opportunities in industrial northern cities. Harlem attracted artists of many disciplines such as painting, sculpture, literature, dance, and theatre. The timely outpouring of art and opportunity created a voice and identity of the African American community in this historical period, that was not only impactful to all of American artistic culture, but also was influential and thereby enjoyed throughout the world, particularly with the unique African American Expression of Jazz music. This is a dance participatory activity relevant to the literature, music, and dance of the Harlem Renaissance, featuring a short historical video, warm up, An interpretation of a Langston Hughes poem through movement and a period dance to the big band sounds of 1920’s Jazz.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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What A Parallel: Dance and Geometry
What A Parallel: Dance and Geometry
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Tom Evert of Dance Evert has created this impactful program that integrates the study of geometry with the art of dance.  The human body relates to geometry, in that our bones are lines and our joints create angles.  With the discipline of full- body movement activities from sitting on the floor to standing, participants find creative expression for the academic standards of lines, angles and 2-dimentional shapes as they move through space. This residency culminates with the creation of a performance which demonstrates participant understanding of the academic content standards for 4th grade geometry.

Multiple intelligences are engaged as participants interact with others and express themselves physically, spatially, musically, social-emotionally and artistically.   Students improvise, create, and perform movement phrases with concentration and kinesthetic awareness.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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State of Matter: What A Gas!
State of Matter: What A Gas!
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States of Matter: What a Gas!  Residency engages participant learning through movement investigations and interpretations of scientific principles. Working in the arts helps learners to develop creative problem-solving skills. Art instruction helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness.

In this residency, participants will learn a routine of movement exercises that will repeat each session to develop movement fundamentals.  They will learn the “States of Matter Dance”, as they move with the properties of solids, liquids, and gases to a rock ’n’ n’roll science song. The interactions of living and non-living things in soil is explored through dance and the role participants play in the formation of soil and organic matter. The properties of matter are taught in the context of the movement of air and water in soil and the different movements of particles in a solid, liquid, and gas.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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Dance of Life: Water & Light
Dance of Life: Water & Light
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Solar energy and water on Earth:   An Arts-Integrated Residency

This theme focuses on helping participants develop the skills for systematic discovery to understand the science of the natural world around them. Energy is observed through movement, heating, cooling, and the needs of living organisms. The sun is the principal source of energy. Water on Earth is present in many forms and the  properties of objects and materials can change. Participants will explore this theme using whole- body awareness of dance, the art of movement. They will learn a routine of movement exercises that builds each session to develop movement fundamentals.  They will integrate academic concepts with movement investigations and expressions to create a final dance.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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Triangle Sit & Popsicle Stick!
Triangle Sit & Popsicle Stick!
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This residency is an introduction to an expressive movement language through exploration and creation.  Participants will learn a routine of movement exercises, that will be practiced in each class to develop movement fundamentals.  They will explore academic content, through movement improvisation and expressing ideas through dance, the art of movement.

The residency focuses on the element of space and making applications to meaning in language and science, as we breathe in and out. Some movements will be crafted with counting and identifying shapes and others by using word opposites to describe paths in space, such as high and low/ near and far.  The residency will culminated will an assembly of all activities and creations to present a showing of our work and play.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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Dance Man (Early Childhood)
Dance Man (Early Childhood)
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This Early Education interactive performance introduces the arts as a means of expression of ideas, feelings, and the world around us. Mr. Tom performs a series of expressive and engaging pieces to introduce the art of dance and then leads everyone in creative movement activities together.

Performance Price: $226

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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Geometry In Motion
Geometry In Motion
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Experience dance as it integrates with principles of geometry. Using the body to demonstrate lines, angles, and two and three-dimensional shapes, this workshop teaches students to see that geometry is everywhere. Dancer Tom Evert will guide students through improvisational activities as they learn to practice concepts on their own and in small groups.

Program Artist:

Dance Evert

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