Movement Education Programs
Multicultural awareness, finding one's inspiration and expression
Dance programs:
Fusion Dance:
This program has been developed to enable participants to understand, be inspired by and learn about different cultures through dance. It features Flamenco (Spain), Bharatanatyam (India), West African, Modern (USA), Latin, and Caribbean dance styles.
The goal of this program is for students to learn the differences, similarities, history and cultural aspects of each dance style. Students engage with this material through an embodied, experiential approach.
Spanish Language through Movement:
This multidisciplinary program was developed to enable participants to learn, interpret and understand Spanish language through movement.
The goal of this program is to foster learning of conversational skills in a new, fun way, for use in travel and daily life. The aim is for each participant to develop a love for Spanish culture and an excitement to learn more about this beautiful language. As a key aspect of cultural immersion, students learn Latin dance styles such as Salsa, Merengue and Bachata.
Creative Movement and Yoga:
Explore the world of movement! This lively class introduces participants to the basic dance concepts such as rhythm space, and music. Literature, poetry, visual art, props, yoga and storytelling are included to allow the participants to stretch their bodies and their imagination!
This class will improve flexibility, creativity, concentration, focus, balance, bodily awareness, and strength.
Transcending language prejudice through movement:
Lets have a conversation about language, being bilingual, having an accent and how one gets treated because of how one speaks. Lets listen to each others stories about language and its affects. We will be creative and explore the power that language has on the world through movement. My aim is that we find our respect for the languages of the world and to bring awareness that languages bring us together. Through movement explorations.
Anna Mayta has been developing these movement programs for the past 15 years. She has been teaching these programs around the Hudson Valley NY area.
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adult education non-credit programs of Vassar and Marist Colleges
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after school programs of public school systems of Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park and Beacon districts.
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community centers such as Boys and Girls Clubs
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summer camps
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Montessori schools
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dance companies and dance schools around Boston, India, England and Zimbabwe.
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Recently:
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At Castle Island Bilingual montessori in Albany NY.
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The Middle Way School in Saugerties NY.
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Adjunct professor of dance at Columbia Greene Community College.
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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel NY.
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River Arts Summer Camp Hastings-on-Hudson NY
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Caramoor music and cultural center in Katonah NY.
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Berkshire Pulse a dance studio in Housatonic, MA
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JCC of Albany NY
