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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 us at 617-629-9262 x26 or email us at: scheduling@yamass.org.
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.
(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 focus on the folk process and oral tradition through folk instruments, music, tales, and songs. Sessions include hands-on activities (a musical spoons lesson, the singing of a sea-shanty while raising a “sail”), an introduction to a variety of folk instruments, singing, relevant historical information, plus time devoted to questions and answers. Residencies can be tailor-made to focus on school’s area of interest from themes Oregon Trail, American Sampler, Massachusetts!, States and Regions assembly programs.
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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Roots Music Collective
Let's Make Music
In this residency, children learn how to improvise and compose their own songs. Other topics include ear training, learning rhythms, building percussion instruments, and various music styles and history. Students will perform songs with their percussive instruments accompanied by Roots Music Collective members in a culminating event.
Grade Levels: K-8
All About Jazz
This residency is designed for schools with instrumental music programs for intense work in small groups, or 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 members from Made in the Shade and Roots Music Collective 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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Sarah Haskell
It Takes a Community to Weave a Tapesetry
The ancient Greeks believed that a woven cloth could tell stories in a unique and magical way. In this residency, students will contribute to a collaborative weaving project using the metaphor of weaving to share and tell storeis. A woven fabric created by your school will be stronger and more beautiful when all the contributing strands collaborate, creating a true fabric of community. Themes for the actual tapestry can be integrated into social studies, history, science and language arts curriculum.
Grade Levels: K-12
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
English Language Arts
History and Social Science
Theater
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Karen Montanaro
Imagination in Action: a dynamic presentation of dance and mime!
Residency - Imagination in Action!
Imagination in Action’s multi-session residencies provide an in-depth exploration of the “language of movement.” Through movement, reflection and focus, students engage in the creation of narrative. Students learn to listen with their eyes, speak with their movements, read with their imagination, and write with choreographic pattern. The sessions are interactive, creative and high-energy, using mime and dance as language, with a focus on literacy and communication skills through movement. The residency culminates with a performance presentation by the students.
Grade Levels: K-12
Contact office for pricing information.
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Dance
English/Language Arts
Foreign Languages
Health/Phys Ed
Theater
Music
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Norah Dooley
Residency - Building Literacy through Storytelling
Students gain self-confidence as they learn new strategies for writing and telling original 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
Contact office for pricing information.
Massachusetts Curriculum Links:
English Language Arts
History and Social Science
Multicultural Studies
Theater
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