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URGENT ACTION
NEEDED! LAUSD Arts Programs have been
suspended due to budget cuts.
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Help save LAUSD Arts Programs!
To keep Mūv Dance and Yoga Programs in LAUSD
schools this year, make your tax deductible contribution today! Please
make checks payable to "Making Faces Productions Org." and write "Save Mūv Program"
in the memo. Please send checks to 1605 Armacost Ave. #106, LA,
CA 90025. Thank you! Your support is keeping the Arts alive
for Los Angeles children.
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Have us customize a dance and
yoga program and curriculum for your school!
We work with administration and teachers to design the ideal curriculum and program using dance and yoga to transform your
school into a place that makes learning accessible to all students via kinesthetic experiences and the creative process.
After working in elementary, middle, and high schools, colleges, universities, studios and community settings, Michael
and Michele have an excellent capacity to determine how creative movement will help achieve any academic or social need.
For more information, email us at MuvDanceAndYoga@aol.com
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Our ACPN (Arts Community Partnership Network) Program
Description 08-09
Description
of Network Partner: MUV (pronounced MOVE) Dance and Yoga is an innovative arts organization dedicated to giving students
and educators a comprehensive and deep experience in connecting creative dance/movement to academic curriculum. Founded
by former LAUSD Dance Teachers, Michele Bickley and Michael Richter, MUV uses “learning through movement” to stimulate
imagination, higher order thinking skills, and clear communication. Our highly acclaimed method of teaching relies on
developmental, differentiated instruction, so that ALL students succeed in meeting the CA State Dance Standards.
Description of Arts Learning Plan: During a 4-5 week residency at each school,
we teach dance and yoga (breathing while stretching) in order to bring health, joy, and learning to the students, faculty,
and staff. Students and teachers work collaboratively to develop meaningful connections to their academic curriculum
by using choreographic skills. In this way, they embody learning from Open Court Reading, Math, Science, and Social
Studies.
Instructional: 4 days of student workshops for 4 different classes
(4 teachers and approximately 100 students participate). MUV’s lessons teach movement skills, dance vocabulary, creative
process (improvisation and choreography), and aesthetic valuing, which fulfill all strands of the Visual and Performing Arts
(VAPA) Standards. We create a new curriculum for each and every class!
Performance/Demonstration:
On day 5, each of the four participating MUV classes will demonstrate what they have learned for another class and parents.
MUV students will then teach the new class, their “yoga buddies,” elements of their creative process, so both
classes can explore dance and yoga together.
Professional Development: 4
Yoga/Movement Workshops and 1 Creative Dance Workshops. Yoga PDs make movement accessible to teachers and provide stress management
tools that can be used in the classroom to help students relax and focus. The Dance PD focuses on working together
as a group, building dance skills, while demonstrating how to make curricular connections and meet CA Dance standards.
Collaborative Planning Meetings: The first meeting with the faculty explains
how MUV’s package of services achieves our educational goals. We meet with the cadre chair and a school administrator
to complete the master schedule. At the second meeting, we work with each of the four teachers whose classes will be participating
in the student workshops. Together, we determine which specific area(s) of the classroom curriculum we will teach through
dance and yoga.
Resources: Lesson plans, instructional video/DVD: Yoga for
the Classroom, CD of music, and descriptions and photos of activities taught. Yoga props are provided during the program.
Special Requirement: A clean and empty auditorium. Additional staff yoga
classes can be purchased with supplemental funding.
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