July 11-22, 2016
Tucson Creative Dance Center
3131 N. Cherry Avenue
Tucson, Arizona
Taught by Griff Goehring and Mary Ann Brehm
Tuition: $300 for first week
$450 for both weeks
scholarship assistance is available
scholarship assistance is available
for further information, contact mabdance@aol.com or griff@creativedancecenter.org
To register, please also send a short summary of your background and needs for the course to mabdance@aol.com
To pay online click here
To pay by check please send name, address, telephone, and email along with payment made out to Mettler Studios to:
Mettler Studios
3131 N. Cherry Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719
A $50 registration fee (applied to tuition) is required.
To register, please also send a short summary of your background and needs for the course to mabdance@aol.com
To pay online click here
To pay by check please send name, address, telephone, and email along with payment made out to Mettler Studios to:
Mettler Studios
3131 N. Cherry Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719
A $50 registration fee (applied to tuition) is required.
Mettler Studios' Creative Dance Teacher Training provides a full-immersion experience of individual and group dance improvisation and strategies for teaching this material for all ages and abilities. The work is based upon principles of dance developed by Barbara Mettler.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Daily sessions M-F, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm with a two hour lunch break
Follow-up mentoring program by phone and email
CREDIT
Follow-up mentoring program by phone and email
CREDIT
Three Continuing Education Units are available from the University of Arizona Outreach College. Please let Mary Ann know ahead of time if you are interested in CEUs. There is a $25 fee to be paid to the University of Arizona for the CEUs.
PURPOSE
- To cultivate the natural creative movement resources of individuals and groups
- To study and practice movement as a medium of creative expression
- To explore the use of the body as instrument and movement as the material of dance
- To provide teachers with the necessary tools for teaching creative dance
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
- Individual and group improvisation studies in the materials of dance, including themes such as:
- the kinesthetic sense as a guide for discovering movement forms
- force, time and space and their connections to drama, music, and visual arts
- organic form, where movements and themes evolve naturally one from another
- the unity of sound and movement
- dance with the environment
- building skills for group dance improvisation
- Directed exercises
- Discussion of principles of dance and how they apply to teaching
- Materials and methods of teaching creative dance and improvisation on all levels
- Adaptation of materials to specific teaching endeavors according to the interests of the workshop participants
Required text: Materials of Dance as a Creative Art Activity by Barbara Mettler (available for purchase at the workshop or online at www.barbaramettler.org)
Recommended text: Creative Dance for Learning by Mary Ann Brehm and Lynne McNett (available online)
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Mary Ann Brehm and Griff Goehring have taught workshops together since 2007. Both were members of Barbara Mettler’s professional groups and served as Mettler’s teaching assistant.Griff has worked with children and adults in educational, recreational and therapeutic settings since 1980. She is the founder and director of Green Mountain Creative Dance Center in Vermont and adjunct faculty at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. She is also a past president of the International Association for Creative Dance.
Mary Ann taught adult classes at the Tucson Creative Dance Center for 20 years, has worked extensively with
children in school settings and been a faculty member in the Creative Arts and Learning Master’s Program at Lesley University. She is a past president of the International Association for Creative Dance and has a PhD in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
HOUSING
We recommend that participants stay at the Homewood Suites at St. Phillips Plaza on North Campbell Avenue. A block of rooms has been reserved for our workshop participants and family at a reduced rate. The block will be held until June 18.
To make a reservation online click here.
This will take you to our personalized group registration.
At that page click "book a room"
You can also register using our group code MSD via telephone at 520-577-0007.
Please register for the course before booking a room.
The Homewood Suites is about 2 miles from the dance studio. The suites have both a bedroom and living room. It features a full kitchen, complementary breakfast and dinner (M-R), shuttle service within 5 miles and is near a bus line, restaurants, Trader Joe's, and a bike/walking path. We have stayed there for many years when the hotel was the Windmill Inn and loved it!
We can help set up suites mates for you also Please contact Mary Ann at mabdance@aol.com if you would like to share a suite.
We recommend that participants stay at the Homewood Suites at St. Phillips Plaza on North Campbell Avenue. A block of rooms has been reserved for our workshop participants and family at a reduced rate. The block will be held until June 18.
To make a reservation online click here.
This will take you to our personalized group registration.
At that page click "book a room"
You can also register using our group code MSD via telephone at 520-577-0007.
Please register for the course before booking a room.
The Homewood Suites is about 2 miles from the dance studio. The suites have both a bedroom and living room. It features a full kitchen, complementary breakfast and dinner (M-R), shuttle service within 5 miles and is near a bus line, restaurants, Trader Joe's, and a bike/walking path. We have stayed there for many years when the hotel was the Windmill Inn and loved it!
We can help set up suites mates for you also Please contact Mary Ann at mabdance@aol.com if you would like to share a suite.
for more information on Mettler Studios and Mettler-based Dance go to:
www.barbaramettler.org or www.dancecreative.org
For information on the Green Mountain Creative Dance Center go to: www.creativedancecenter.org
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