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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214)
2500 East
Fourth Avenue,
80206-4214
(Columbine Street at East Fourth Avenue)

Telephone:
(303) 388-5969
Fax: (720) 424-9355
E-mail: Bromwell@dpsk12.org

Ms. Jody Cohn, Principal

Our Dance Program

Welcome to the Bromwell Elementary School Dance Department! Bromwell is one of the few Denver Public Schools to have a dance program in addition to a full time Physical Education program (thanks to our amazing PTSA!) Students in grades two through five have a 25 minute dance class twice a week.<o:p></o:p>

Program Overview:

Our creative dance program consists of a healthy balance between exercise and creativity. The curriculum strives to combine skill development with self expression and emphasizes the importance of teaching actual choreographic concepts in addition to learning technical dance moves and positions. Students are given daily and weekly opportunities to generate their own movements and create their own dance pieces. Throughout the year students work on various projects such as original student choreography, exploration of traditional folk dances from around the world, examining the work of professional dance companies and choreographers and the importance of dance and movement to the world of theater.

In dance class, students learn important lessons such as how to maintain one’s own personal space and how to solve problems creatively. They are taught to respect and value their own and other people’s creativity. They are allowed to move freely to the direction of the spirit within them with the body they have! Dance class can be a joyful and stress relieving experience for many students. In the words of long time dance educator Anne Green Gilbert, “Creative dance can be a powerful tool toward peace because people learn to solve problems, express feelings, cooperate, accept and value individual differences, gain an awareness of their own and other’s cultures and engage in an activity that increases, rather than decreases, self esteem.”

Standards:

The following are the Colorado Model Content Standards and Denver Public Schools Standards for Dance.

Colorado Model Content Standards:

1. Students will understand and demonstrate dance skills.

2. Students will understand and apply the principles of choreography.

3. Students will create, communicate, and problem solve through dance.

4.            Students will understand and relate the role of dance in culture and history.

5.            Students will understand the benefits of dance for lifelong fitness.

6.            Students will understand the relationships and connections between dance and other disciplines.

Denver Public Schools Standards

1. Students will understand, demonstrate, and perform grade‐appropriate dance skills within their physical ability range.

2. Students will understand and apply the principles of choreography by creating, performing, and responding to various stimuli in terms of dance structure.

3. Students will create, communicate, and problem solve through dance and dance performances.

4. Students will understand, perform, and relate the purpose and diversity of dance in culture and history.

5. Students will understand the benefits of dance for lifelong fitness and respond to the needs of their bodies.

6. Students will understand relationships and connections between dance and other content area and be able to respond, create, and perform based on these connections.<o:p></o:p>

Personal Info:

Mrs. Lauren Liebman Nonino is Bromwell’s creative dance teacher. A native of Denver and a graduate of Denver Public Schools, Mrs. Nonino loved to dance even as a small child and participated in school wide and citywide dance and theater programs. She graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a Theater Arts degree and later received her teaching license through the Stanley British Primary School Teacher Licensure Program and a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Colorado at Denver. Mrs. Nonino has taught theater, dance and yoga to children and adults both in the United States and abroad and has also taught pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first, second and fifth grades as a classroom teacher.

Productions:

As part of the Creative Dance Program at Bromwell, students have the opportunity throughout the year to participate in various dance productions. In the 2008/2009 school year, students performed a Hip Hop dance concert with guest artist Ricki Harada, a Winter Holiday Dance Concert, Folk Dances from Around the World for the school’s Multicultural Night, a Folk Tale Dance Theater Piece and an informal Original Student Choreography Showcase. Below are some photographs from last years Dance Department productions. Please check the website for upcoming dance performances this 2009/2010 school year!

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