Mark Degarmo Dance

Dance education program - 426 students and teachers served directly including in-person instruction before the mandated nyc public schools' closure due to covid-19 and then a shift to totally live online instruction, in schools, with 2,651 total students. The program served 19,500 individuals directly and indirectly. These programs used learning standards and nyc department of education ("doe") Dance blueprint to design sequential, interdisciplinary curricula integrating Dance skills, improvisation, composition, performance, the school curricula, and Dance journal writing. 1) "partnerships in literacy through Dance & creativity" served 5 prek to grade 5 schools, 5 title i, nyc public schools primarily during the school day in 3 boroughs. Covid-19 nyc public school closures required pivot from in-person to online live teaching which was accomplished. Schools included: bronx: p.s. 105-sen abraham bernstein, pelham parkway; manhattan: p.s. 15-roberto clemente, east village/lower east side; & queens: ps 80-thurgood marshall, jamaica; ps 160-walter francis bishop, jamaica; and ps 228-ivan lafayette, east elmhurst. We also conducted 1 after school program with p.s. 15. We worked directly with administrators, teachers, students, educational paraprofessionals, staff, parents and family members. 2) our professional learning program served 7 teaching artists, educators, and administrators working in 5 nyc prek to grade 5 public schools, 5 title 1, in a 62.5-hour program, including instruction, mentored and peer-to-peer learning, observation, and reflection.

Dance performance program - Dance performance program involving 545 audience members served directly and 2,200,000 people reached in total, including social media reach and reach of publications.