Deepen the Connection

Intensify your students learning experience by having a KINETIKids Artist Residency at your school.

Residencies are for schools who wish to deepen the connections between academic and arts curriculum by having an artist in residence for a week or more. A KINETIKIDS experience includes planning with a school team of teachers to establish learning objectives, classroom sessions with students and follow up activities. If requested these can be directly connected to a performance by KINETYX Dance Ensemble.

Option 1
Custom Designed Residencies

Invite one of our artists to plan a unit of study with your teachers.

Together we will design a residency around your learning goals and objectives in any subject area. Involve special area arts, foreign language, special ed, media and PE teachers in the process!

Here are sample ideas from past residencies:

-All About Weather
Students learn about air pressure and moisture content as factors that determine weather conditions. They create simple movement studies and assignments that help them to physically understand why the wind blows, what a “front” is, different types of clouds and their associated weather conditions, they create snowstorms, tornadoes, and rainshadows.

-Crouching Comma, Hidden Hyphen
Help students to recognize and use punctuation marks appropriately by making movements and sounds to go with them. Then create dances to go with their poems, fairy tales, short stories, using the punctuation in their appropriate places.

-3D Forms
Help students to understand the concept of volume in geometric forms, identify and create cones, cylinders, spheres, rectangular prisms, pyramids etc.

Beginning with two dimensional shapes that are familiar to them, we show how these shapes can combine and “inflate” to make 3 dimensional forms. (i.e.: a cylinder is a rectangle with round ends, a cone is a circle with a triangle on top of it.) We make a sequential dance that transforms from one to another.

-Teaching Togetherness

Students learn about working together by making movement compositions that show teamwork, unity, compassion, sharing, cooperation, and other “togetherness” words.

Option 2
The KINETYX Connection Residencies

Select a residency that coordinates and culminates with one of our Active Learning Performances. Classroom activities center around skills and themes in the performance you choose, either Math, Science, Language Arts or Multicultural.

-Movin’ Into Math
We learn how dancers use math to create their choreography. Students make a dance that requires them to use numerical calculations (dividing into sets, combining in numbered groups), patterns and sequencing, geometric forms and transformations, and using diagrams to chart the dance on paper.

-Objects in Motion
Starting with several everyday objects we examine how their shape, material and size determine how these objects move. Students make movement studies to show the attributes of each object and they learn about Newton’s Laws of Motion.

-Fairies and Folks
Learn about story making and storytelling through movement. Students learn basic elements of stories (setting, time, characters, plot, theme). They model a well known fairy tale and learn to show these basic elements by using descriptive movement. Then they get down to the fun part of making up their own fairy tale using a democratic process of voting on each others ideas. Once they’ve created their tales they devise a movement play to tell it, using only their bodies to show characters, props and scenery.

-Culture Club
Contrast and compare activities we might see people doing in different cultures. Create group dances that demonstrate these likenesses and differences.

KINETYX on DVD!

Have you been wanting to bring KINETYX Dance Ensemble to your school but just couldn’t afford the cost? Well, you are in luck. We have created DVD productions of our popular Active Learning Performances and are now available for purchase!

Each DVD comes with an educational packet that includes curriculum connections, classroom activities, vocabulary, history of dance and a bibliography of books and music used in the program.

Just think, you can purchase a KINETYX Ensemble DVD for your school for a fraction of the cost of a live performance, and you will have it forever!! Your students will enjoy our performances and educational materials for years to come.

See KINETYX Active Learning Performances for more details. When you book a KINETIKids Residency you receive $50 off on the purchase of a corresponding DVD.

Choose from four educational programs or purchase all as a package. Each DVD comes with a packet of educational materials including curriculum standards addressed for gradeds K-8, suggested classroom activities and vocabulary lists.

Purchase now using PayPal:
Each DVD is priced at $50 (includes educational packet)


Science In Motion

Movin' Into Math

Unspoken Words

Around The World In 60 Minutes

or get all four for the special price of $100!

You can also send a check or money order to:

Martha Connerton/Kinetic Works
1609 Nassau Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28205
Be sure to specify which DVD you have chosen.

For bookings or information, please call Kinetic Works at 704.338.1533 or send us an Email

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