College
Crossroads Dialogues workshops (college-level)
The Crossroads project offers a specially-designed workshop (2-5 days) for college populations, including designers, dancers, singers, players, and actors, and the general student body. Cast members provide intensive instruction in the full range of featured African American, Caribbean, Anglo-Celtic, and Appalachian dance idioms, the Band leads workshops in the dance music and song repertoires referenced in the Crossroads show, and the Creative team, led by Dr Smith, present seminars, lectures, and interactive discussions on the historical, political, cultural, and racial contexts from which these art forms emerged.
These workshops are economical to stage (typically, music ensemble or dance practice spaces work well), highly interactive & participatory, and can be tailored to individual populations or student interests. Typically, a Dialogues workshop will culminate by integrating the local students who have participated in the workshop, as choral singers and corps dancers, into a semi-staged public performance of the Crossroads show—thus provided students an experience of project-centered learning, participatory creativity, and Devised Theatre research.
Dialogues workshops are available as adjuncts only in tandem with a staging of the full show. Costs are minimal provided spaces, accommodations, and daily expenses are covered (typically, dormitory housing works well).
The Crossroads project offers a specially-designed workshop (2-5 days) for college populations, including designers, dancers, singers, players, and actors, and the general student body. Cast members provide intensive instruction in the full range of featured African American, Caribbean, Anglo-Celtic, and Appalachian dance idioms, the Band leads workshops in the dance music and song repertoires referenced in the Crossroads show, and the Creative team, led by Dr Smith, present seminars, lectures, and interactive discussions on the historical, political, cultural, and racial contexts from which these art forms emerged.
These workshops are economical to stage (typically, music ensemble or dance practice spaces work well), highly interactive & participatory, and can be tailored to individual populations or student interests. Typically, a Dialogues workshop will culminate by integrating the local students who have participated in the workshop, as choral singers and corps dancers, into a semi-staged public performance of the Crossroads show—thus provided students an experience of project-centered learning, participatory creativity, and Devised Theatre research.
Dialogues workshops are available as adjuncts only in tandem with a staging of the full show. Costs are minimal provided spaces, accommodations, and daily expenses are covered (typically, dormitory housing works well).