Provider Details
Provider: Engage Creativity
Contact Details
Address
8505 Cameron St
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Primary Contact: Kwame Opare
Teaching Artist
We provide expert arts/arts-integrated learning experiences for students and professional development opportunities to educators.
Artist in Residence Program:
- Student-centered, purpose driven, culturally relevant
- Expert instruction in the Performing Arts
- Fostering efficacy, self-awareness, positive self-ID for enriched educational experience
- Personalized, supportive, real-time formative assessment
- Culminating events for student presentations
Professional Development:
- Dynamic, interactive, and exciting workshops for educators
- Focus on the engaging creativity as an initiative for better education
- Addressing challenges faced in modern education
- Topics such as Mitigating the Mandates, Triumph of Disruption, Student-Teacher Relationship
- Expertise in creating arts and arts-integrated lesson plans and curricula
- Experience as consultants, facilitators, and curriculum creators for education entities
Events and Programs Offered
West African Dance Workshop Residency
ORIGINS : West African Dance Workshop is an exciting, energetic and interactive experience in West African dance, music, and song. Origins takes students on a historical-cultural journey from traditional West African dance and music to the origins of Hip-Hop culture and into contemporary styles on…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, In School Performance, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Theater, Dance and Movement
the BUCKETS (& other non-conventional percussive instruments)
In association with STOMP and Enough Said Productions, our founder Kwame Opare choreographed and assistant directed the short film and p.s.a. “STOMP Out Litter” , an anti-litter campaign; San Francisco, CA. The success of that campaign led Mr. Kwame to create the Great Recycled Orchestra…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, In School Performance, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Theater, Music, Dance and Movement
STOMP! A Unique Experience of Movement and Music
Ignite Creativity and Teamwork Bring the electrifying energy of the iconic Broadway show STOMP, and its world-renowned percussive dance style, directly to your school! Our immersive workshops are designed to inspire and engage students of all ages. Born from the iconic Broadway show, this unique…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, In School Performance, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Theater, Music, Dance and Movement
Origins: West Africa to Hip Hop (PERFORMANCE/Lecture Demonstration)
Exciting, energetic, and interactive lecture demonstration. Drummers and dancers perform traditional west African percussion, movement and song. Audeinces are engage in call and response with audiences
Program/Event Format:
In School Performance
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling, Music, Dance and Movement
Move The Music - A Percussive Dance Experience
This workshop teaches elements of movement and music and explores when coupled they create a specific kind of dance we call, Percussive . Students learn that percussive dance exists in varying cultures around the world and has been used to tell the history of a…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop
Art Forms:
Theater, Music, Dance and Movement
Engage Creativity - Professional Development
The arts hold a deeply personal significance for those who endeavor to learn them and strive for mastery within them. The Engage Creativity (EC) framework is built on leveraging the principles and practices that drive artists’ mastery to enhance students’ academic achievement and cultivate greater…
Program/Event Format:
Professional Development
Art Forms:
Music, Dance and Movement, Digital Arts/Media, Creative Writing, Visual Art and Design, Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry