Educational Residencies
SLMDances creates and implements dynamic educational residencies for your institution specific to the needs of your students and curriculum. These residencies may include master classes, setting or creating choreographic work on students, lecture demonstrations and more. In order to create an educational residency program with SLMDances, contact us.
See examples of residency programs with some of our current and past partner institutions.
The Brearley School
Residency Theme: West African Dance
Active Years: 2014-2017.
Residency Frequency + Length:
Two 40 min. master classes/week. 14 weeks.
SLMDances offers an introduction to West African Dance with a live drumming accompanist to 8th Graders as a part of the Physical Education curriculum. Students learn dances, music and history from various West African ethno-linguistic groups.
West African Dance Master Class 2014 with Lead Teach Artist Efeya Sampson and Accompanist Bashir Shakur.
West African Dance Master Class 2013 with Lead Teach Artist Sydnie L. Mosley
Black Girls Rock!
Residency Theme: West African Dance
Active Years: Summers 2013, 2014
Residency Frequency: 90 min. master class every other day for the 14 day program. 7 classes total.
SLMDances offers an introduction to West African Dance with a live drumming accompanist to girls ages 13-17 years old as a part of the Arts Curriculum in the Black Girls Rock! QUEENS Camp for Leadership and Excellence. Studnets learn dances, music and history from various West African ethno-linguistic groups.
"How can dance be used as a tool for activism?"
Dance Corps in "Sleeping Beauties," a new choreographic work.
Greenwich Academy
Residency Theme: Technique and Repertory
Active Years: 2013
Residency Frequency + Length:
1 contemporary modern technique class/week. 2 repertory rehearsals/week.
Fall Semester.
As the Fall Semester Artist in Residence, Sydnie L. Mosley taught technique master classes, and created a new choreographic work with GA's most advance dance students. The work, "Sleeping Beauties" was produced in the annual winter dance production. Additionally, SLMDances offered a lecture demonstration on the theme, "How can dance be used as an activist tool?" The company performed The Window Sex Project, and a section of work in progress, Body Business.