Wednesday, October 7, 2015

July 11- 22, 2016
Optional Practice Teaching Day: Saturday, July 23
Tucson Creative Dance Center
Tucson, Arizona
taught by Mary Ann Brehm and Griff Goehring

 Mettler Studios' Creative Dance Teacher Training
provides a full-immersion experience of individual and group dance improvisation
 and strategies for teaching
 for all ages and abilities.The work is based on principles developed by Barbara Mettler



Tuition:

$300 for first week
$450 for both weeks

scholarship assistance is available

For information on course content contact
griff@creativedancecenter.org or mabdance@aol.com

To register, p
lease also send a short summary
of your background and needs for the course
to griff@creativedncecenter.org

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 Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85719

A $50 registration fee (applied to tuition) is required. 


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
Optional Practice Teaching Day: Saturday July 23.


CREDIT
Three to six Continuing Education Units are available from the University of Arizona Outreach College.  You must contact Mary Ann ahead of time if you are to receive 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.
Read Griff''s article Barbara Mettler: Advocate for Equal Opportunity in Dance in the online journal Dance Citizen. 



Mary Ann has taught adult classes at the Tucson Creative Dance Center for over 20 years and has worked extensively with children in school settings. She has been a faculty member in the Creative Arts and Learning Master’s Program at Lesley University. She is the board president of Mettler Studios and a past president of the International Association for Creative Dance. Mary Ann is researching Mettler's principles and materials by working with videos of Mettler's teaching. She has a  PhD in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


FOLLOW UP PROGRAM   
Mary Ann facilities a follow up program to mentor workshop participants in their application of the workshop material to teaching, therapeutic, and life settings.  Typically participants email lesson plans or teaching ideas to Mary Ann and online discussion ensues. Telephone mentoring and videos of classes can also be included.

Optional Practice Teaching Day,  July 23.  A new offering this year, all workshop participants will have the opportunity to present a short Mettler-based lesson on Saturday to other workshop participants and Tucson dancers.  Feedback on the lesson will be provide by Mary Ann.  All participants are welcome to be a part of this day, whether they wish to teach or not.  Please make travel plans with this opportunity in mind.


SCHOLARSHIPS
Tuition assistance and housing subsidies are available to workshop participants who also participate in the Follow up program. Please indicate on your registration if you will be needing financial assistance in order to attend the workshop.


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. ($100 plus tax/suite)  The block will be held until June 15, 2016.

You can register using our group code MET online (you will need to scroll down to book a room)  or via telephone at 520-577-0007. Please identify the group as "Creative Dance Teacher Training." The group rate applies also to a few days before and after the course if needed.Please speak to Alfred for an extended stay.

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 light 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 love 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