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PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY DANCE CLASSES
FOR KIDS
teaches a "creative movement" approach to dance.
Fostering the love of moving and dancing is our chief goal.
Our young dancers discover their own wide range of movements
varying in size, shape, feeling, and speed. This self-discovery
is fun. It develops concentration and teaches self-discipline
which promotes self-confidence. The use of music instills
new appreciation and emphasizes auditory and rhythmic skills.
Working with props strengthens eye-hand coordination. It is
our aim that with increasing experience, our students will
make their dancing expressive and impressive.
Click here for more about the
importance of dance education for all children.
CLASS ACTIVITIES
All classes begin with dance warm-up exercises, followed
by creative, improvisational challenges, story dances, free
dances, prop dances or good bye solos that explore movement
themes like shapes or levels. As students mature, more dance
technique is added to the curriculum, and classes include
more exacting dance warm-up exercises and simple patterns,
teaching skills such as turning, jumping, or lifted posture.
All classes create beautiful improvisational dances as well
as set pieces. The final class of each session will be a performance
for parents. Come and see us fly!
CLASS LOCATION
Please note that classes take place at the Church Of Our Saviour,
on the corner of Monmouth and Carlton Streets in Brookline,
MA. The church is one block south of Beacon Street at Carlton
Street. Easy access by T. The church is located near stops
on the C line or D line. Street parking is available. Click
here to view our map.
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SCHEDULE FOR FALL/WINTER and WINTER/SPRING SESSION
14 weeks - Fall/Winter begins October 5, 2010; Winter/Spring begins January 25, 2011
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CREATIVE MOVEMENT
3:00-3:50 PM Tuesdays Ages 3-4
4:00-4:50 PM Tuesdays Ages 4-5
3:00-3:50 PM Thursdays Ages 4-5
4:00-4:50 PM Thursdays Ages 3-4
Tuition: $200 (includes registration fee)
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GRADES K, 1, 2 CREATIVE MOVEMENT,
TECHNIQUE and PERFORMANCE
(extrasmallfeets dancers)
Dancers prepare short pieces for our last day showing
and year end concert. This group may meet with the SMALL
FEETS.
3:00-4:05 PM Wednesdays
Tuition: $250 (includes registration fee) (additional
fees for costumes)
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SMALL FEETS dance company
4:15-6:00 PM Wednesdays
Class and Rehearsal
Classes begin September 15.
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FOOTNOTES and UPDATES
Scholarships
There are two half scholarships available for our classes.
Please call for details.
Full Classes:
Classes are already filling. Please send in
registrations ASAP. For the
fall session, there is no priority enrollment.
TEACHER
JEANNE TRAXLER
was an original founder of the PB&J Dance Company in
Cincinnati, Ohio in 1976 and in Massachusetts in 1980. She
teaches PB&J Dance Classes for Kids and co-directs the SMALL
FEETS dance company. Jeanne is also involved in dance and
the Child international, an organization whose mission is to
increase and develop opportunities for young people to
experience dance as creators, performers, and spectators
throughout the world. She was the USA Chapter National
Treasurer and has taught for daCi at the international
meeting in Finland in 1997 and at two National Dance
Education Organization (NDEO) conferences. She is also a
founding member and on the organizing committee of the
Children’s Dance Festival, an annual day of dance workshops
and performances for and by children. Jeanne has taught
workshops for all of the Dance Across the City days, the
Dance for World Community Festival, and at the Wang
Theater’s Artropolis program. She has also choreographed six
elementary school musicals in Brookline, for one of which,
she collaborated on lyrics for the original music. Her
choreographic work has received grants from the Masachusetts
and Brookline Arts Council.
Nadya K, Assistant Teacher, is a student at Brookline
High School. She studied Ballet at Boston Ballet for 8 Years
and is currently on the BHS Dance Team. She studies dance at
BHS and recently performed in “Progressions”, the dance
department major faculty choreography concert.
Kate B, Assistant Teacher, was the Founder, Artistic
Director, Choreographer, Dancer & Teacher of Bresee Dance
Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation
of original dance productions and collaboration with other
contemporary Nordic artists (composers, visual & multi-media
artists, musicians, designers, story-tellers). In 1996, BDK
and the City of Oslo Cultural Department partnered to bring
the art of dance to Oslo’s downtown community. Their dual
mission was to vitalize and enhance appreciation of the
city’s beautiful parks & river through site-specific,
open-air Dance performances. Since moving to the area in
2001, Kate has been teaching, dancing, and working at the
Jackson Homestead History Museum in Newton.
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"..thank you soooo much for your class. My daughter has
been painfully shy for as long as I can remember. For some
reason, she isn't at all in your class. I am shocked to see
her volunteer to go up on stage, to let you lift her up, and
to do the goodbye dance by herself. (The first day, I
figured that would be disastrous.) She rarely looks at me
the whole hour (it is wonderful, as normally she is very
clingy.) I appreciate the way you run the class, with lots
of fun activities. Her father, grandmother, and preschool
teacher don't believe me when I tell them about her doing
all of these things."
"...provide[s] children with a concrete skill set that
is rife with real-world usefulness." - Brookline Tab
[My Son] adores your class. You are awesome with the
children. - Parent, 2010
"Classes [are] geared toward a child's mind and
[light] up the imagination." - Parent
Thank you for such a great Creative Movement program. We
were very fortunate for such a wonderful, enthusiastic
teacher!
My daughter can't imagine not dancing with Jeanne!
My daughter took Jeanne's classes for a couple of years,
and I've guest taught for her and known her for years. I can
vouch unreservedly for her creativity, soundness of
approach, and general good sense about life and art.
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