Story Tapestries: Valerie Baugh-Schlossberg and the ST Ensemble
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About the Artist:
Valerie Baugh-Schlossberg is a Theatre director, teaching artist and the Program Director for Story Tapestries. With 28 years of experience, Valerie performs, directs, and devises with diverse youth and adult populations. She is committed to anti-racist education and working in inclusive spaces. She regularly participates in anti-racist professional development and learning groups, including the first cohort of AREALL (Anti-Racist Educators of the Arts Learning Lab, MD), Impact Silver Spring’s Network Weavers, MD, and the Racial Equity Institute. She has a BFA in Musical Theatre and has completed various graduate courses in theatre pedagogy, education, and theatre for youth. She has created and implemented various theatre courses for companies and organizations around the US; including Boise State University, Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s Drama School, Pima for Kids (Tucson), and Camp Whispering Pines (AZ). She has directed people of all ages from preschool to adult.
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Type of Programs Offered
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The Fastest Plane: An Imaginary Journey Around the World and Beyond
Description:
Use your imagination to explore stories, fairy tales, myths, and fantastical adventures. Sit back and get ready to Dance, Laugh, and Play through the streets and jungles of Brazil, America, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt or India. After experiencing this multi-lingual storytelling program, leave the program ready to hop on a plane and see the universe, dancing to the tunes of the world and wanting to tell your own stories and those of cultures all over the world.
Appropriate Grade Levels:
PreK - 12Curriculum Connections
Assemblies and Workshops available for in-person & virtual events: All programs are adapted to the appropriate age group, curricula, and virtual platform
ELA, Literacy, STEAM, Social Studies, History, Geography, Creative Writing, Math, Science, Character Development, World Culture.
Specialties: ELL, Special Education
*Our team is well versed in teaching EVERY age group and will custom design your program to meet your goals. We can weave the power of creative writing, dance, theatre, visual arts, music, and storytelling together with ANY school subject to inspire learning. All of our programs are available In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid.
This program is offered as:
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Moving through Our Feelings
Description:
Create your very own “feelings dance” as you move and gesture while exploring weight, direction, and texture. Build social-emotional skills and refine gross and fine motor skills. Learn how to express your feelings and add intention to your movement with director and Master Teaching Artist, Valerie Baugh-Schlossberg.
Appropriate Grade Levels:
PreK - 12Curriculum Connections
Assemblies and Workshops available for in-person & virtual events: All programs are adapted to the appropriate age group, curricula, and virtual platform
ELA, Literacy, STEAM, Social Studies, History, Geography, Creative Writing, Math, Science, Character Development, World Culture.
Specialties: ELL, Special Education
*Our team is well versed in teaching EVERY age group and will custom design your program to meet your goals. We can weave the power of creative writing, dance, theatre, visual arts, music, and storytelling together with ANY school subject to inspire learning. All of our programs are available In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid.
This program is offered as:
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A Customized Arts-Integrated Residency: Learn the Standards through dance, spoken word, writing, and drama
Description:
Design your own residency. Match your curriculum with the artists’ strengths as an artist and teacher. Begin by selecting the common core standards you want to integrate with arts strategies. Create a residency that is the right balance for your classroom of storytelling, multimedia, writing, drama, and movement. Allow the creative process to guide your students’ ability to synthesize and evaluate their understanding of new areas of learning. Through a series of arts-integrated exercises, students understand how to solve a math problem, understand a scientific process, film a weather report, create a commercial, perform a modernized folktale, write a personal story, historical tale, piece of fiction, or nonfiction. The end result of the residency is a piece of writing and/or a performance ready to be shared with their community.
Appropriate Grade Levels:
PreK - 12Curriculum Connections
Assemblies and Workshops available for in-person & virtual events: All programs are adapted to the appropriate age group, curricula, and virtual platform
ELA, Literacy, STEAM, Social Studies, History, Geography, Creative Writing, Math, Science, Character Development, World Culture.
Specialties: ELL, Special Education
*Our team is well versed in teaching EVERY age group and will custom design your program to meet your goals. We can weave the power of creative writing, dance, theatre, visual arts, music, and storytelling together with ANY school subject to inspire learning. All of our programs are available In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid.
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Booking Details
Program Costs:
$650 - $750 single performance; $850 - $1000 back-to-back performances
$200 - $225 single workshops; $950/ for a day of 5 workshops back to back; $4750 for a full week of workshopsPlanning and Evaluation Meetings: For Residencies = $200 per meeting (1 artist plus 1 staff member)
Curricula Planning Hours may be added at a rate of $150 per hour if deemed necessary.Travel requirements or restrictions:
Federal Mileage rates will be included to and from the location each day of the engagement.
Additional Notes:
For those schools that need 100% financial support to afford a program, there are new financial opportunities that we can avail to serve those needs. NO school, NO child should be denied an artist at their school due to funding constraints
Our team is well versed in teaching EVERY age group and will custom design your program to meet your goals. We can weave the power of creative writing, dance, theatre, visual arts, music, and storytelling together with ANY school subject to inspire learning. All of our programs are available In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid.
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The Fastest Plane: An Imaginary Journey Around the World and Beyond
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Artist's featured work:
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Name or Art Agency:
Story Tapestries
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
(301) 916-6328
State / County:
Maryland, Montgomery County
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