Drafting a new blueprint for ballet and beyond
This historical, intellectual, artistic, highly curated forum will focus on shifting the culture of ballet training, and developing a lens, and practice that centers, IDEA, cultural competence and the students personal development and humanity.
The Educators and Scholars Forum offers: lectures, panels and workshops lead by MoBBallet Founder Theresa Ruth Howard, industry professionals and presenting scholars.
CALL FOR PAPERS
- Symposium Submissions may relate to the following topics:
- Black dance archives and history
- Anti-racist and inclusive pedagogy
- Decolonizing ballet/curriculum
- Organizational and department culture
- Rethinking pedagogy and curriculum
- I.D.E.A. in ballet
- Teaching through intersectionality
- Reimagining dance history
- Cultural competence in the studio
Day 1
Teacher Heal Thyself:
Examining effects of generational trauma in Ballet training
How inherited trauma presents in the studio
Teacher Educate Thyself:
Beyond the “Barre” Education and Personal:
Cultural Competence and I.D.E.A. in the Studio
[Black] Ballet History
Day 2
Decolonizing our Lenses:
Interrogating the implicit biases due to our ballet socialization
Program/class/course Identity
Program/ Studio Culture
Day 3
Designing a Student Centered Culture
Mission, Vision, Values
(individual/faculty/program)
New Agreements around Communication
Crafting a New Studio Culture
In addition to daily presentations, movement classes and opportunities to observe ballet course classes
For more information contact: [email protected]
HOST WALNUT HILL MAKES US AT HOME
The 2024 Symposium on the Hill is being hosted by Boston Ballet School and Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and takes place on the beautiful Walnut Hill campus in Natick, MA, just outside of Boston. MoBBallet (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet) will have access to their state-of-the-art facilities, which includes 3 large studios, blackbox theaters, a gym, generous grounds, and we are now able to offer both a daily meal plan as well as dormitory lodging.
Come Board With Us....
Walnut Hill has opened their dormitory and dining facilities to the MoBBallet Symposium. Participants can choose from double or quad rooms, in Bishop Hall. Each room is furnished with a desk and desk chair, a bookshelf, a bureau and a bed for each occupant. All dorms have common spaces for gathering. The dining hall will provide 3 meals a day for all participants.
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