TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE
Dancing Words -
performances and residencies for schools
Johanna offers an educationally inspiring and creatively engaging program
that brings poetry to life. In her performances and residencies, Johanna
uses interactive stories, poems and dances to spark interest in the
arts and engage students’ imaginations. Students leave performances
smiling, inspired to write poems and make dances that tell the stories
they live. Residencies culminate with showings and/or publications of
student work.
Grrrls Speak
Ranging in age from 11 to 14, the group meets every Monday afternoon
to tell the stories of their days and spin words and movements into
tangible, subtle art. Johanna founded this group six years ago with
9-12 year old girls, and watched the group grow up as the girls did,
settling finally into the 11-14 age range. Each year a different and
uniquely its own group forms and works together for the full year, publishing
a book of original writing and producing a full-length, grrrl-created
performance of dance, theater and spoken word. Click here
to find out more.
TEACHING ADULTS
Voices From Inside
- Prison Outreach
Johanna co-leads a weekly writing group at the Western Massachusetts
Correctional Alcohol Center where women can come together and begin
to express their voices without fear of criticism or negative consequences.
Moving Stories -
Workshop for adult women
At the request of many grown-up "grrrls" who said
"I wish I'd had a Grrrls Speak when I was that age!" Johanna
will be continuing her group for adult women in the future--it's not
too late to let the inner grrrl speak! Participants will explore writing
and movement and how they support and inform one another. They'll craft
poems and build dances and find out how using the two forms together
can deepen the possibilities for expression.
Yoga
Johanna has taught Levels 1&2 Iyengar style yoga at Wildlife Sanctuary
in Northampton and East Street Ballet in Hadley.
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