Dance, Play and Learn!
Creative Movement Activities for the Young Child:

Thursday, May 30, 2013  5:30-7:30 pm
(registration 5:15 pm)
Little Leopards Learning Center,
Littleton High School, Littleton NH

Child care is available: please call ahead or indicate on your registration form if you need care for your children.

Professional development credits are offered.

For early-childhood educators (pre-K to grade 2)
Pre-school & child-care administrators & care providers
Librarians
Parents & grandparents
Teaching artists
High-school & college students

Kids love to move! Creative movement can be an essential tool for cognitive, social and emotional learning for children of all abilities -- and it's exciting and engaging as well! In this fun and informative handson workshop, Kelly Doremus Stuart introduces the concepts and principles needed for each participant to become comfortable facilitating creative movement activities for preschool and early-elementary-aged children. Teachers, students, parents, child-care providers and librarians will learn some of the many ways movement can be used to teach a wide array of topics. The workshop will include sharing practical ways for using creative movement in any early-childhood setting. Examples for inclusion and engagement of children of all abilities will be given throughout the workshop.

No previous dance or creative movement experience required!  Please bring your sense of play and a willingness to explore new ways of moving -- and wear comfy clothes and shoes.

Our thanks to Little Leopards for partnering with us on this program!

About the presenter:
Kelly Doremus Stuart is a dance/movement educator and choreographer who moved to New Hampshire in 1986 after graduating from college with a BA in dance. She has been working as a roster artist and trainer with VSA New Hampshire and as a teaching artist with the Arts in Education program of the NH State Council on the Arts since that time. She has extensive experience working with students of all ages and abilities in a wide range of venues, including pre-school and day-care settings. She currently serves on the faculty of New England College as a dance/movement instructor and choreographer for theatre productions and dance concerts and is the Associate Artistic Director and Choreographer for Petit Papillion, The Children's Ballet Theatre of NH. Her teaching experience includes work with Rae Pica. Kelly was a core task force member for the New Hampshire Department of Education's Curriculum Frameworks for the Arts and is a recipient of the Outstanding Professional Award for Dance from the New Hampshire Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.