This workshop will focus on how the creative process of choreography can build and support critical thinking skills and collaborative learning.

Based on City Center's Choreography Residency, participants will work in small groups to choreograph dance phrases inspired by a masterwork.  The workshop focuses on the creative process and includes peer critique, reflection, and revision of the work.  Participants will come to understand how dance and the creative process can support critical thinking.

Thursday 9:15-10:45

Conference Strand: Core Knowledge

Educators: will walk away with an understanding of how following the creative process and developing choreography can support their class work, develop critical thinking skills, and encourage collaborative learning.

Artists: will walk away with an understanding of how peer critique, reflection, and revision can improve the quality of student' choreography.

Organizational Administrators: will walk away with an understanding of how a choreographic program can be developed to support curriculum and critical thinking skills.

Educational Administrators: will walk away with an understanding of how the creative process of choreography can support their teachers' efforts to develop collaborative learning and critical thinking skills.

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Traci Hinton-Peterson currently teaches dance and facilitates staff development workshops for the NYCDOE and City Center. She has served as a panelist for NYFA, an auditor for NYSCA, presenter for the Empire State Partnership Conference, and presenter at NYS Association for Computers and Technologies in Education.  In addition, she has worked as a Teaching Artist for City Center, the Joyce Theatre, New Victory Theatre, and numerous cultural organizations.