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Workshops ~ Artist-in-Residence
~ Dance Classes
Since 2002 I've included live music in
dance and movement sessions. Here are some of the highlights of the last
few years.
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· Series of creative
movement workshops with live music at the Children's
Museum & Theatre of Maine as part of "Dancing with Books,"
a literacy program combining reading with music and movement, spring 2010
· Parent-Child Creative
Folk Dance at Rising
Tide Community Market's grand opening, fall 2009
· Kids Dance Party with live music for parents
and children, folk dance and creative movement program at St.
Lawrence Arts & Community Center, fall 2008.
· Parent-child workshop
combining folk dance, structured creative movement, free dance and singing
games, with live, traditional fiddle music. At the Maine
Discovery Museum in Bangor.
Two sessions: Summer and winter 2008.
· Parent-child creative folk dance classes
at HeartSpeak studio in Topsham, fall 2008.
· Childrens' folk dance and creative movment with
live music at Ossipee Valley Bluegrass
Festival in Cornish, Maine, summer 2008.
· Kids' Dance Parties at the Brunswick
public library: 45-minute sessions of informal creative movement games
and folk dances, all with live fiddle/guitar music.
Six sessions: March-May
2007
· Visiting Artist, Children's
Museum of Maine, creative movement and simple traditional dances,
all with live fiddle and guitar music.
Five sessions: April 2003, December 2004, and February 2006, December
2006, April 2007
· Dance workshops and performances with live music
for parents and children at the Long Island
Children's Museum, February 2007
· Visiting Artist, Bowdoinham
Community School, first grade class; workshop and performance with
creative movement and live music.
Four sessions: 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006
· Private dance instructor, Bowdoinham, Maine,
2004-2005
· Creative movement instructor, throughout Children's
Theater of Maine's summer camp in Portland, summer 2004
· Artist-in-residence for Bowdoinham Community
Food Project/Bowdoinham Community
School; creative movement and music.
8-week session, fall 2003
· Dance instructor, after-school community dance
classes, April/May 2003 at Freeport High School
· Dance instructor, 15-class session for beginning
dance students with live music, Freeport High School, Maine.
Two sessions: winter term 2002/2003 and winter 2003/2004
· Workshop leader for dance and theater, Freeport
High School, fall 2002
· Workshop teacher, creative movement with live
music, Bowdoinham Days fair, Bowdoinham, Maine, fall 2002
· Created and led dance activities for literacy
program in elementary schools, Bloomington, IN, 1999-2000
· Dance instructor, Windfall Dance Studio. Taught
ballet, modern and creative movement classes to children ages 4-18. Bloomington,
IN, 1998-1999
• Created and led dance activities, in addition
to everyday preschool classroom teaching, as Assistant Teacher at Bloomington
Montessori School, Bloomington, IN, 1998-1999
· Certified in environmental education course,
Water Education Training, 1997
· Reading and math tutor, 1991-1993
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Arts Camps ~ After-School
Programs ~ Performance Projects
A musician was part of the teaching staff
for all these programs; we developed creative and theatrical movement
working with the musician and interpreting the script.
For ages 7-10 (grades 1-5), 8-week sessions
(14-classes)
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"A Story Dance of the History of Bowdoinham,"
an original script with interpretive movement and live fiddle and guitar
music. Hope Hoffman worked as the instructor, writer, director, choreographer
and musician.
Classes were held at Bowdoinham Community School, Bowdoinham,
Maine, fall 2002.
The show was performed at Bowdoinham Community School,
and at the Children's Museum of Maine.
Another session of classes were held at Bowdoinham Community
School, Bowdoinham, Maine, spring 2003.
The show was performed at Bowdoinham Town Hall.
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Hope Hoffman was instructor/director/choreographer for
creating a performance of a selection from Carl Sandburg's
"Rootabaga Stories." Carl Sandburg was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry in 1951, and his collection of charming and imaginative
children's stories provided a wonderful springboard for experimental and
humorous theater.show featuring creative movement, voice and live music
on fiddle and upright bass.
Classes were held at Bowdoinham Community School, Bowdoinham,
ME, fall 2003
The show was performed at the Bowdoinham Town Hall
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· Creative movement instructor, at the Bath Recreation
Department Artworks camp. Worked with musicians and students ages 5-12
to explore sound and movement, and creative process, and present an interpretation
of the children's book "The Big Orange Splot."
Bath, Maine, February 2005
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· Director and instructor, 3-week
children's summer dance camp. Taught technique
and improvisation, choreographed, produced performance for children ages
8-16. Bloomington, IN, 1999
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Town Hall Theater
Group shows written by Hope Hoffman, presented with young performers:
July 2004, "SuperTutu's Big Day" with 2 young
actors in lead roles
Performed in Bowdoinham, Bailey Island, Brunswick
May 2004, "Spring versus Mud" with 7 young actors
performing movement theater
Performed in Bowdoinham, Brunswick
November 2003, "Hunting, Haunting" with a child
as the narrator
Performed in Bowdoinham, Bath, Farmington
September 2003, "SuperTutu Goes Back to School"
a show for young audiences with 6 children from the audience participating
Performed in Bowdoinham, Farmington, Bath
June 2003 "The Adventures of SuperTutu" with
4 children performing dance movement
Performed in Bowdoinham
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