Tandy Beal and Company Invites You To Our Teaching Artists Workshop!

EXPANDING HORIZONS

Deepen Your Skills As Teaching Artists in DANCE and THEATRE

Experiential Master Classes

This Annual Retreat generally takes place late spring —

Past Teaching Staff have included: Tandy Beal, Paula Bliss, Jerry Falek, Jane Real, Salvador Benavides

Check back here for details on our next Workshop

Below is an example of the full schedule for an Expanded Horizons Workshop Weekend

SATURDAY

10-10:30 - Tandy Beal: Setting the Stage: Enduring Principals — Meet and Greet

10:30-12 - Tandy Beal: Dance Making and Community Building

12 -12:45 - Break**

12:45-2:15 - Jerry Falek: First Steps--Planning Your Creative Movement/Theatre Classes: Inspiring Students...and their Classroom Teachers! 

2:15-3:45 - Jane Real: Connecting Creativity to the Standards: It can be liberating and fun!

3:45- 5:15 - Salvador Benavides: Finding your Voice –Make curriculum come alive thru storytelling and theatre

SUNDAY

11- 1 - Paula Bliss: Vision and the Present Moment: Flexibility offers maximum creative engagement & fun—since every day in schools brings surprises!

1-1:45 Break**

1:45- 3:45 - Tandy Beal: Next Steps: How to make it yours! Discussion, Brainstorming and Planning

TO REGISTER: Please submit the registration form at the bottom of this page.

WORKSHOP FEE: $100 for the full 6-class workshop, payable by June 16*. Scholarships available!!

FACULTY BIOS

Tandy Beal toured world-wide with Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre & in France, with Carolyn Carlson. In her off the map career she choreographed 65 life-size puppets for Frank Zappa & all characters in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Xmas; directed Moscow Circus in Japan & Pickle Family Circus; MTV & emmy award winning PBS special Voice/Dance. Collaborations with Jon Scoville, Bobby McFerrin, Art Lande, Lou Harrison, John Adams, SoVoSó. Guest performing with: Atlanta Ballet, Remy Charlip, Murray Louis, Momix, Oakland Ballet. Awarded Women’s Directing Workshop from American Film Institute to make a film. Featured in SF Performing Arts Library video: 4 Dance lcons of the West. Teaching: Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine (France), Mills, 30 years at Univ of Utah as guest artist, UC Santa Cruz. Dance Chair, Cabrillo College. Designed pedagogy classes at UCSC & Cabrillo College. Chosen by NEA as Movement Artist for their AIS program. Speaker, DANCE USA colloquium on arts education.

Salvador Benavides grew up in San Jose, and moved to Los Angeles where he has worked as an actor of award-winning independent film (Delusions of Grandeur, The Death of Salvador Dalí);Television, (Better Things, Criminal Minds); Theater (To Be Dalí, Tomás and the Library Lady); and Commercials (Venetian Resort, KIA). As an actor and teacher for the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Company, he taught Pre-K through High School and was team leader of the High School residency Living History. As an actor and workshop facilitator with the Kaiser Permanent Educational Theater Program he worked with students in public, private and alternative schools.  He has acted in and directed plays for young audiences with West Performing Arts in Santa Cruz and toured schools from the Pajaro Valley Unified School District. Salvador is an actor in TBC's HereAfterHere.

Paula Bliss is a musician, composer, performer and teacher. She teaches Children's Dance at San Jose State University to future elementary teachers. She has taught for Dance Force (with Mary Joyce & Sue Cambigue) in San Mateo, and teaches both music and dance annually in many SC schools. She was a Lead teacher in Spectra Plus, a program with Gault Elementary and Cultural Council, the first local program to infuse the arts into the curriculum. She annually teaches professional development workshops for Santa Clara Dept of Education & San Jose State Univ. For over 3 decades, Paula has been performing and teaching with TBC.

Jerry Falek, (MA in Special Education, American University in Washington, DC) has been a guest artist in schools teaching K-8 for decades: movement, theater, storytelling, and weaving. He has performed as a clown, a puppeteer, and a storyteller. He created a 90-minute main stage storytelling program about the Holocaust for high school students that has been seen by all the students at San Benito High School since 2008. He has worked with severely disturbed children in Virginia, critically ill children in Seattle and at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, high-risk students throughout Central California, and delightfully ordinary and exceptional children throughout Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties! At Soledad Prison he taught clowning and circus skills to inmates serving life sentences. As an artist-in-residence he has been invited to villages all over Alaska. He has toured in Taiwan, Mexico, Cambodia, Alaska, and Germany. He has a long history of training teachers in the arts at the regional and state level, and appears regularly as a storyteller at universities, museums, and schools. Jerry was in Tandy's first Nutcracker!

Jane Real is an educator and performer. She holds an MA in Dance from UCLA, and an MS in Education from Hunter College in NY. Jane has taught dance and theater in NYC, LA and Santa Cruz for over 25 years. She currently teaches dance fulltime in the Pajaro Unified School District. She is a former rehearsal director and performer with Bill T. Jones. She also performed and taught residencies for Young Audiences in New York City Schools. Jane dances with with MoveSpeakSpin as well as with Tandy Beal & Co.

Rebecca Blair, (Managing Director, Stage Manager, Rehearsal Director for TBC), danced with Maria Tallchief’s Chicago City Ballet and Lyric Opera Ballet Companies, as well as serving as Ballet Mistress. A Ford Foundation Scholarship student to the School of American Ballet, she has been teaching adult and children’s ballet classes in Santa Cruz for 30 years.