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Update from Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy

By Emily Pitcher
dancer instructor for the San Francisco Ballet Center for Dance Education's Dance in Schools and Communities program (DISC).
April 1, 2010

Our process of developing dance for the Performance Project at Harvey Milk is going well. I am choreographing sections and then putting them together like puzzle pieces. In addition, the dancers have been divided into small groups and work together to create their own group combination. Through this process, these third graders are learning how [...]

Performance Project at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy

By Emily Pitcher
dancer instructor for the San Francisco Ballet Center for Dance Education's Dance in Schools and Communities program (DISC).
February 11, 2010

Since mid-January, Mr. Hall’s third grade class at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy has been rehearsing every Tuesday afternoon. They are gearing up for their performance at the DeYoung Museum on May 8. Charles McNeal and I completed our ten-week residency through the Dance in Schools and Communities (DISC) program with these students in the [...]

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