MVCMA Summer Children's Event - The Yard

Children's Event
The Yard

at the Tabernacle

Sunday, August 17, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Admission
$5 general seating;
$20 for limited premium seating

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"The Yard" is an artists and dance colony in Chilmark It has a long-standing commitment to the arts in education. Through its multi-cultural and artists-in-the-schools programs, The Yard bring world-class dance companies to Vineyard schools each year. Its programs offer assemblies, creative movement and multi-cultural dance classes, curriculum that dovetails with the work of music, theater, physical education and social studies teachers, professional development for interested classroom teachers, and culminating events in which students may perform for their peers or community. In addition, visiting artists teach dance and choreography master classes for adults and for island children who study dance more intensively outside of the school setting. Contemporary dance groups are chosen for their artistic quality and their proven expertise in teaching in the school setting. In recent years, multicultural groups representing the dance traditions of West Africa, Korea, Brazil, Ireland, and Spain have brought the world to island students.

The Yard brings regularly brings its popular dance performances to the Tabernacle and the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center to benefit its in-school programs. These events bring some of the best performers the dance world has to offer to Martha’s Vineyard. Recent performances include: Alvin Ailey II, the popular Brazilian music and dance group Negro Gato, the Caribbean Dance Company, and Harlem-based children’s African dance group Batoto Yetu.

Yard choreographers and dancers are everywhere—in the news, reviews, and in feature articles in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, the New Yorker, and the field’s finest arts publications. Yard choreographers, composers, and designers have their work presented in such noted theaters as The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, City Center, The Metropolitan Opera, and BAM. Yard dancers tour with the world’s most exciting dance companies, including Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Alvin Ailey, and Bill T. Jones. Yard artists teach choreography at The Juilliard School, NYU, Princeton, UCLA, and many other distinguished conservatories and universities. The most innovative arts-in-education organizations, including Lincoln Center Institute and Young Audiences, have many Yard alumni on their faculty as teaching artists.