EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

Andrea Nann Dreamwalker Dance Company is committed to facilitating enriched arts learning and experiences for youth and the general public by providing opportunities to work and learn with exceptional artists.  Dreamwalker Dance Company has a history of offering exemplary educational outreach programming. Through workshops, seminars and/or classes, Artistic Director Andrea Nann successfully engages students and participants of all ages and backgrounds in artistic explorations that foster creativity, imagination and emotional expressiveness.  Elements of drama, literature, music and visual arts are woven into the creative process and final product, as the participants give physical form to their thoughts and feelings. In her workshops each participant feels respected for his/her individuality and unique artistic interpretations and creations.

Andrea Nann is a certified Artist in Education having completed the York University and the Ontario Arts Council certification program in 2006.  Prior to becoming an Artist in Education, Ms. Nann was a guest teacher for the Toronto District School Board for which she developed and implemented age specific material for workshops with students in both elementary and secondary schools.  Her knowledge of the dance and drama curriculum is valuable to both students and teachers. Ms. Nann addresses social and political issues through dance/movement with young students with care and sensitivity. By drawing on issues of personal and social significance, the artistic work becomes highly relevant and meaningful to the students. Ms. Nann is also highly skilled at eliciting responses from students. Her process involves the students as thinkers, evaluators, interpreters and creators. Ms. Nann’s carefully designed and sequential process inevitably leads to very fine work.

Dreamwalker Dance Company is an organization that seeks to contribute to the building and strengthening of Canadian culture and society by bringing together emerging and established artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and disciplines to educate and advance the public’s understanding and appreciation of contemporary dance. Incorporated in as a corporation without share capital, our main activities are:

To educate and increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of the arts by providing performances of an artistic nature in public places, senior citizens homes, churches, community centers and educational institutions and by providing seminars on topics relating to such performances.

• Dreamwalker Dance Company will offer performances and workshops led by professional dance artists either on their own or in collaboration with composers, musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and/or theatre artists.
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will provide opportunities for emerging and established Canadian choreographers and dancers to share ideas and/or collaborate with composers, musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and theatre artists to create and/or present new dance works.
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will seek opportunities to create new dances or to remount existing dances with student or emerging dance artists.

To provide instructional seminars on topics related to the performing and visual arts.

• Dreamwalker Dance Company will provide the public with access to the artist’s creative process through events such as open rehearsals, public workshops and discussions, lecture demonstrations, and presentations or performances.
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will provide artists with an administrative support structure, networks and creative work space.
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will provide instructional master classes, workshops and seminars, to professional artists, students, and the general public on topics related to dance and the performing arts, and topics related to collaborations between performing artists, and/or written artists, composers, filmmakers and visual artists.
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will contribute to the building of bridges between artists and the public by reaching out to diverse community groups with opportunities for public participation in artist run workshops, open rehearsals and seminars on topics related to the humanistic nature of expressive and performing art forms.
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will provide instructional movement workshops to the general public for the purpose of inspiring participants to move and explore creative physical expressions of ideas, concepts and emotions in a supportive environment, and to provide individuals with activities that require open communication and collaboration with other participants, and inspire attitudes and attributes of trust, confidence and acceptance.

To produce performing arts festivals for the purposes of educating and advancing the public’s understanding and appreciation of performing arts and to educate artists through participation in such festivals and relayed workshops.

• Dreamwalker Dance Company will take part in and initiate Community events - artist panel discussions, movement workshops, pre and post performance public forums, post show question and answer periods, presentation of work in public spaces (indoors and outdoors).
• Dreamwalker Dance Company will collaborate with leading presenters, public and private theatre and performing spaces, and Canadian and foreign government departments and agencies charged with the responsibility of promoting the performing arts within their jurisdictions to arrange for the presentation of performances of an artistic nature and cultural exchanges in the activities, community events and festivals presented under their purview, and to obtain skill and experience in the organization of Canadian and foreign tours.