Residencies

Why a Residency?

Residencies provide students with active angagement in the arts.

Professional teaching artists work with classroom teachers to provide skills-based programming that addresses specific student needs while simultaneously integrating the arts into curriculum objectives in innovative ways.

How Do You Plan?

Individuals, schools, and organizations should schedule residencies at least one month in advance with YAMA. This will permit sufficient time to arrange a planning meeting between your chosen artist and participating teachers to determine goals, activities, and outcomes. Specific residencies conclude with an exhibit or presentation that celebrates the work of the students.

• A typical residency day consists of three to four classes per day, with 20–30 students per workshop.
• Each session lasts between 45 and 60 minutes.
• Residencies typically last a minimum of five days and can extend for as long as several weeks or months.
• YAMA programming can be tailored to your school's curricular objectives and/or as a complement to your community programs and events.

Click on the picture below or scroll down for program descriptions and prices.
Prices are valid from 7/1/11-6/30/12.
To plan a residency program, contact us at scheduling@yamass.org or 617-629-9262 x303.

Dance Mass Movement, Inc. photo by Susan Wilson	Music Ian Gendreau	Storytelling Andrea Lovett
Visual Art Raul Gonzalez	Visual Art Sarah Haskell

Dance

Mass Movement, Inc.

Through dynamic dance and movement activities that encourage creativity, deepen cultural awareness, and improve physical wellbeing, students investigate alternative ways to understand and explore world cultures.
Choose from: creative movement to encourage self-expression and physicalize language and story; ethnic and traditional dance forms (from African to European) to foster understanding of other cultures through their traditional movement styles and rhythmic patterns; and contemporary dance to explore scientific and mathematical concepts through rhythm and physical movement. Schools can choose any combination of workshop options to meet their classroom needs.

Social Studies:
African-American Culture: African Dance to Hip Hop
Swing Dances from the World War II Era
International Folk Dances from All Continents
English Language Arts:
Plot Development: Storytelling in Movement
Figurative Language: Abstraction, Similes, and Metaphors
Science and Mathematics:
Einstein Rules: Opposition, Gravity, and Causality
Divide and Conquer: Math/Movement Games
Dances of the Solar System

Workshop Length: 45–60 minutes
Participants: 30 students
Price: $125 per workshop,
(includes one artist, minimum two workshops per day)
Travel Fee: based upon mileage

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $125 will apply.

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Music

Ian Gendreau

African Drumming Comes Alive!

In this interactive program, students learn about the music and cultures of Ghana. They will receive hands-on experience with Kpanlogo, a drumming and singing tradition of the Ga people, and will learn about African musical concepts such as polyrhythm, the importance of community in a drumming ensemble, and the role of music in everyday life. The culminating event is a concert performed by all of the students participating in the residency. The program can be integrated to incorporate specific curricular requirements.

Workshop Length: 45 minutes
Participants: 25 students
Price: $100 per workshop
Travel Fee: based upon mileage

Minimum of five contacts per group with final performance; single workshops available without final performance.
School must schedule at least three workshops in a single day.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $100 will apply.

Sounds of the Rainforest

Students create and perform a piece of music about the tropical rainforest while learning about its importance as an ecosystem, its global significance, and the threats facing it today. Each class will research one layer or element of the rainforest and incorporate the information into their musical piece. For the final performance, all classes will come together to perform and share their pieces as an ensemble. The program can be integrated to incorporate specific curricular requirements.

Workshop Length: 45 minutes
Participants: 25 students
Price: $100 per workshop
Travel Fee: based upon mileage

Minimum of five contacts per group with final performance; single workshops available without final performance.
School must schedule at least three workshops in a single day.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $100 will apply.

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Storytelling

Andrea Lovett

Build A Story Residency

In this community-building program, students learn the elements of story structure and discover their storytelling abilities as Andrea guides them to perform their own stories in front of an audience. Beginning with familiar stories and fables, students use open-ended questions and mapping to identify and pick apart the fundamental elements of a story – characters, setting, and outcomes. They then work collectively to change those elements and build their own story as a class. Using their story as a script, Andrea guides the students to discover the story’s natural rhythms and places to add audience participation pieces. The residency culminates with the students performing their new story from beginning to end.

Workshop Length: 60 minutes
Participants: 30 students
Price: $100 per workshop
Travel Fee: based upon mileage

Minimum of five contacts per participating group.
School must schedule at least three workshops in a single day.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $100 will apply

Storytelling to Writing Residency

Students will learn storytelling tools and strategies that can easily be applied to the writing process, a strategy that has been proven to increase students’ language skills and build their overall comprehension skills, allowing for a fuller and broader language-development process. The process begins with the students telling their own personal narratives using prompts and guided imagery. Working with their peers, students identify their stories’ strengths and discuss the natural metaphors, similes, and the power of first and last sentences discovered within the storytelling process. Using this new knowledge, students create story maps and put pen to paper, writing, revising, and polishing their enhanced narratives to be presentation-ready.

Workshop Length: 60 minutes
Participants: 30 students
Price: $100 per workshop
Travel Fee: based upon mileage

Minimum of five contacts per participating group.
School must schedule at least three workshops in a single day.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $100 will apply

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Visual Art

Raul Gonzalez

Comic Book One-Day Residency

Make the writing process come alive for your students! Comic book art is a fantastic vehicle for students to tell personal stories and to create fantasy worlds that help them realize their dreams by living through their characters' experiences (e.g., comic book, graphic novel, superhero drama, etc.). As students create a hard-copy illustrated version of their own original stories, they will discover how visualizing their stories can enhance their descriptive capabilities in the writing process.

Workshop Length: 45 minutes
Participants: 30 students
Price: $100 per workshop
Travel Fee: based upon mileage

School must schedule at least three workshops in a single day.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $100 will apply.

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Visual Art

Sarah Haskell

Read Between the Lines

Weaving and language arts come together using inexpensive, readily available materials. Students will create weavings that become a threshold for a piece of writing, as well as using a piece of writing or a story as an inspiration for a weaving. The process promotes writing and reading skills, as well as fine motor skills, in students of all ages. Schools will receive in advance a list of supplies needed for the workshop.

Workshop Length: 60 minutes
Participants: 25 students
Price: $530 per day for four workshops
Travel Fee: $100 per day

Upon scheduling, schools will be sent a list of supplies needed for the workshop.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $125 will apply.

Over and Under, the Magic of Paper Weaving

Students will learn creative ways of weaving using found paper objects. Further explorations of paper weaving include hand-colored paper and the integration of writing and weaving. Themes that can be explored are family heritage, recycling, and poetry.

Workshop Length: 60 minutes
Participants: 25 students
Price: $530 per day for four workshops
Travel Fee: $100 per day

Upon scheduling, schools will be sent a list of supplies needed for the workshop.

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $125 will apply.

Mandala Community Weaving

Students collaborate to create a circular weaving called a mandala. Each student will create a clothespin figure that will then be joined together around the woven mandala. Themes for the mandala can be integrated into social studies, history, science, and/or language arts curricula. As a creative process, each Mandala Community Weaving project grows from the spirit of the group that creates it. From the colors of the weaving, to the representations of people, to the texture of the weaving, the completed mandala is a true reflection and celebration of each community.

Workshop Length: 60 minutes
Participants: 25 students
Price: $530 per day for four workshops
Travel Fee: $100 per day
Loom Fee: $150
Supply Fee (if not supplied by school): $4 per participant for one clothespin figure or $5 per participant for two
Fabric Fee (if not supplied by school): $100

For all residencies, a one-time planning session fee of $125 will apply.

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