Ruth Asawa School of The Arts World Dance: Presents: Pachamama
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts 555 Portola Drive DKMT Main Stage Theatre
Friday, April 29 and Saturday April 30, 2022 7pm
Senior Pieces, Baile Folklorico, West African, Afro-Brazilian Dance and Music and more Ticket prince
$15.00 for Adults and $7.00 for Students
GWHS 2022 Dance Concert
GWHS Dancers Present 2022 Dance Concert - 600 32nd Avenue- San Francisco
Thursday, April 28, Friday, April 29 at 7pm and Saturday April 30 2pm
$10 general admission and $5 for K-5th Grade and Senior Citizens
DANCE CONCERT 2021 DATES: VIRTUAL LIVE WEBINAR CONCERTS
Saturday May 22 @ 5 PM (PST)
Sunday May 23 @ 2 PM (PST)
Join us for an hour of dance performances choreographed and directed by Dance Company members and intermediate dancers!
@ BIT.LY/GWHSDC21
Importance of Education in the Art of Dance
Education in the art of dance engages the artistic processes of creating, performing, and critical analysis. These processes require students to read symbol systems, use critical thinking skills, excel in nonverbal reasoning and communication, exchange ideas, work cooperatively and collaboratively with others, and interact within a multicultural society.
Research on Benefits of Dance
Arts research shows that students who study dance are more:
- Self-motivated, disciplined and focused in their everyday lives.
- Expressive in their communication of emotions, thoughts, and feelings.
- Creative and imaginative.
- Able to critically analyze their own work and the work of others.
SFUSD Dances Together Apart
Dance Teachers Karina Vela, Elizabeth Kimball, Shona Mitchell, Charlotte S Moraga, Jamie Delodovici, Mershon Illgner - Dance along with us to "Dancing in the Street" by Martha and the Vandellas
Dance in Our Schools
Education in the art of dance engages the artistic processes of creating, performing, and critical analysis. These processes require students to read symbol systems, use critical thinking skills, excel in nonverbal reasoning and communication, exchange ideas, work cooperatively and collaboratively with others, and interact within a multicultural society. More comprehensively, education in the art of dance develops kinesthetic and spatial learning as well as intra- and interpersonal knowledge of self and others. SFUSD has dance classes and programs at many of its schools, see the Offerings section below.
The California dance standards are designed to enable students to achieve dance literacy. To be literate in the artistic discipline of dance, students need to develop specific knowledge, skills, and values that allow for fluency and deep understanding. This means discovering the expressive elements of dance; knowing the dance-based theory, terminology, and symbolic language that is used to comprehend dance; having a clear sense of embodying dance; and being able to reflect, critique, and connect personal experience to dance and the dance community.
Dance Standards
SFUSD Dance Offerings
This section includes dance classes and programs offered in 2020-21.
PreK Dance
SF Ballet Residency in six schools serving 22 classrooms:
- Bret Harte
- Drew
- McLaren
- Rosa Parks
- Cobb
- Havard
- Bryant
Lines Ballet
Elementary Dance
Dance Teachers provided by the Arts Department serve in the following schools:
Alamo
Bessie Carmichael
Bret Harte
Bryant
Dr. George Washington Carver
Cesar Chavez
Clarendon
El Dorado
Glen Park
Gordon J. Lau
Grattan
Guadalupe
Harvey Milk
Junipero Serra
John Yehall Chin
Longfellow
Monroe
Ortega
Paul Revere
George Peabody
Redding (TK)
Rooftop
SF Community
Sunnyside
Ulloa
Middle School Dance
Charmichael (Bessie) K8
- Taiko (Japanese drumming/dance)
King Jr (Dr Martin L) MS
- Dance - MS
Lick (James) MS
- Dance - MS
Presidio MS
- Dance Beginning
- Dance Intermediate
Revere (Paul) K8
- Taiko (Japanese drumming/dance)
High School Dance
Asawa (Ruth) SOTA HS
- Dance 1
- Dance 2
- Dance 3
- World Dance 1
- World Dance 2
Independence HS
- Dance 2
- Dance 3
Lincoln (Abraham) HS
- Dance 1
- Dance 2
Lowell HS
- Dance 1
- Dance 2
- Dance 3
- Dance Prod A
Mission HS
- Dance 1
Washington (George) HS
- Dance 1
- Dance 2
- Dance 3
This page was last updated on April 25, 2022