JGPG offers its young community the opportunity to train with company members and create original dance theatre works using JGPG’s innovative creative methodologies. We offer techniques that tune, align, and entrain the body to itself and its surroundings with the understanding that community building, empathy promotion, social awareness and engagement all start within ourselves in our immediate physical experience of being embodied. The JGPG youth programming is created to facilitate a vibrant, age appropriate learning experience guided by the following goals:
- Students learn and participate in the Joe Goode process of creating dance-theater
- Students work with the teaching artists to create original dance compositions following interwoven lesson plans that scaffold skill building, interpersonal collaborations, and individual expression
- Students are guided in working with relevant themes in a collaborative process directed by the teaching artist.
Like many providers of in-school services, JGPG was impacted by the rapid school closures in March 2020 that extended through the summer (and now, into the fall). Despite these unprecedented challenges, all schools are committed to our partnerships continuing in the 2020-21 school year.
CURRENT PARTNERS
El Cerrito High School
El Cerrito, CA
Lowell High School
San Francisco, CA
Oakland Technical High School
Oakland, CA
Silver Creek High School
San Jose, CA
Yerba Buena High School
San Jose, CA
PAST PARTNERS
Treehouse (a program of the Jamestown Community Center)
San Francisco, CA
JGPG worked with the 6th grade girls of Treehouse, a program which places at-risk youth into social support groups with caring, supportive adults. Students are introduced to the basic elements of dance as well as JGPG methods of combining text, song and movement to craft a shared story exploring themes of empathy, connection and personal creativity.
San Francisco Arts Education Project
2017-2018
Inspired Bodies participants dance, sing and create. They surprise themselves with their own imaginations. Maybe they grow a tail or discover their superpowers, find their voice or color in their own stories. Guided and taught by JGPG company members and teaching artists, this workshop interweaves body and mind and activates the physical imagination. Students are encouraged in the creation of their own unique movement vocabulary as well as collaborative construction of dances. The explorations culminated in an informal performance at the end of the session and an evening-length work shown at the Joe Goode Annex, title Sea Change. More info at sfartsed.org