Residencies

Many of YA's teaching artists offer residencies. Residencies consist of a series of student workshops and culminating events that take place over an extended period of time, sometimes several months. Often, an assembly program kicks-off a residency. YA artists, YA staff and school staff work together to plan residencies. Through specialized workshops, YA artists introduce teachers to the art form and share the skills they will be using in the classroom. Teachers learn how to prepare their students for the artists' visit and how to reinforce the experience after the residency is over. All residencies have direct links to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in both arts and non-arts disciplines.

For assistance in planning a residency or for pricing information, please contact Nancy Garrick at 617-629-9262 X23 or ngarrick@yamass.org.

Bamidele Dancers and Drummers	Mass Movement, Inc. photo by Susan Wilson	Jeff Davis	Made in the Shade
Manguito	North Winds	Norah Dooley	Sojourner Truth photo by Susan Wilson
Roots Music Collective	Sarah Haskell

Bamidele Dancers & Drummers
Residency
African and African-Rooted Dance, Music and Culture
In this residency, students can learn how to make and play percussion instruments, design masks, learn African and African-rooted dances and songs, play djembe drums, congas, log drums and other percussion instruments that members of the Bamidele Dancers & Drummers have brought from their travels to Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean. Ensemble members may share oral histories from West Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil. Residencies are available on any combination of these topics and can be designed to meet curriculum needs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience Limit: 25
Contact office for pricing information.

Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Dance
History and Social Science
Music
Health/Phys Ed
African-American Studies
Multicultural Studies

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Mass Movement, Inc. NEW! (Artists formerly with Boston Dance Collective)

Kinesthetic Learning: Integrating Dance in your Curriculum
Workshops and residencies illustrate how movement can be integrated into language arts, history, mathematics and science curricula. Using basic dance vocabulary, students experience alternative ways to explore and deepen their understanding of academic subjects and principles. Whether diagramming sentence structures or mapping the universe, solving mathematical problems, appreciating concepts in literature, or learning multicultural dances, we provide students with an experiential learning experience. Workshops include introductory activities and creative problem solving. Residencies provide a more in depth look at the curriculum areas and may result in an informal showing of the work learned/created by the students. Choose from:

Social studies:
African American culture: African dance to hip hop
Swing dances from the World War II era
Cultural dances from Europe, early America, and Latin America

Science and Mathematics:
Einstein Rules: opposition, gravity and causality
Divide and Conquer:  Math/Movement Games
Dances of the Solar System

English Language Arts:
Figurative Language: Abstraction, Similes and Metaphors
Plot Development: Storytelling in Movement

Grade levels: K-12

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Jeff Davis
Winner of the Parent’s Choice Award
Jeff Davis is one of the nation’s foremost performers, interpreters and collectors of traditional American folk music.

Residency - American Folk Traditions
Jeff Davis’ residencies cover a wide variety of topics including folk instruments, music, tales, and sea chanteys. Residencies can be tailor-made to focus on the Oregon Trail or American Folk Music.
Grade Levels: K-12

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Music
English Language Arts
History and Social Science

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Made in the Shade

Residency - All About Jazz
The Made in the Shade residency is designed for schools with instrumental music programs. Made in the Shade works intensively with small groups of students, as well as the full jazz or concert band. Students learn how to improvise and compose their own songs. Other topics include riffing, section playing and studying jazz styles and history. Students will have the opportunity to perform with Made in the Shade and introduce new material to their peers in a culminating event.
Grade Levels: 6-12


Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Music
History and Social Science
African-American Studies

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Manguito

Mambo Time
The members of Manguito introduce students to the rich Afro-Latin musical tradition. Students will learn rhythms from a variety of Latin styles of music, inlcuding the ruma, bomba, plena and merengue. The culminatining event is a joint performance of Mambo and Latin jazz arrangements with the students and the artist/ensemble.
Grade Levels: 3-12

Mambo Time for Bands and Orchestras
This residency is designed for schools with orchestras or band programs. The members of Manguito introduce students to the rich Afro-Latin musical tradition. Students work with a Latin rhythm section and present a joint performance of Mambo and Latin jazz arrangements.
Grade Levels: 8-12

Latin Percussion for Bands and Orchestras
Students will work with a professional percussionist to learn traditional Afro-Latin rhythms and songs.
Grade Levels: 8-12

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Foreign Languages
Music
History and Social Science
Multicultural Studies

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North Winds

Band Directors!
Treat the entire school to North Winds’ "Winds of Change" lecture performance. Then follow up with your choice of tailored workshops for individual instruments (including saxophone). Build your package with a combination of master classes, chamber music coaching and band sectionals. Instruction will focus on rhythm, breathing and phrasing, intonation, and practice routines.
Grade Levels: 6-12

Residency - Winds of Change
This residency is designed for music students who have had exposure to wind ensemble (band) playing. North Winds uses works by Farkas, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Klughardt, Debussy, Ligeti, and Villa-Lobos to illustrate the development of style, form, and content in wind music from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Workshop options include master classes on individual instruments, chamber music coaching, and band sectionals.
Grade Levels: 6-12


Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Music
English and Language Art
History and Social Science

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Norah Dooley

Residency - Building Literacy through Storytelling
Students gain self-confidence as they learn new strategies for writing and telling orignal stories that reflect themes found in traditional folklore, issues of personal relevance and a variety of cultural heritages. In this residency, children share their work in a written publication and a culminating storytelling event.
Grade Levels: 3-8



Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Foreign Languages
Health/Phys Ed
History and Social Science
Music
Asian Pacific Studies
Multicultural Studies

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