Step into the Virtual Classroom with ABTKids Daily The American Ballet Theater has launched ABTKids Daily, a new home for families and educators to discover digital content for their virtual classrooms. Join them each day to meet an ABT Dancer, engage with an ABT Teaching Artist, learn fun facts, and enjoy ballet-themed activities from the comfort of your own home.
Ballet West has launched its "I CAN DO" program, a series of live Zoom classes for kids! Their Adult/Open Level ballet classes are free for healthcare professionals.
Dance for All Bodies (DfAB) is a non-profit that works to dismantle the notion that dance is only for the non-disabled and to offer universally inclusive dance classes readily available for people with disabilities. DfAB offers all abilities classes in styles ranging from Jazz, Flamenco, Hip Hop, and Salsa, as well as resources to learn more about the history and context of these styles. See the full lineup of classes offered each week!
Dance Theatre of Harlem has created a digital platform to help bring their artistry directly into the homes of their beloved audiences. Their engaging digital experience, DTH On Demand, includes several weeks of full length archival performances, conversations with artists, instructional videos for children and adults, and online classes for all levels taught by DTH alumni, faculty and company members!
Garth Fagan Dance is offering virtual classes for students of all ages. Beginning and Intermediate/Advanced Fagan technique, and pre-recorded kids classes are available each Saturday on GFDTV. Donations are welcome!
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is offering Free Family Activities! Developed by Anne Green Gilbert, the "Brain Dance" is a great way to prepare for tests, performances, and presentations. Try it as a break during computer work and TV watching. Every Tuesday and Thursday, tune in to a Creative Movement class led by Hubbard Street Youth Dance Program faculty in partnership with Bennett Day School!
Institute of Contemporary Dance's YouTube channel offers pre-recorded lessons for young dancers in multiple genres including imaginative movement, lyrical, jazz, ballet and more.
While practicing social distancing, you can still maintain your vital connection to the live performing arts at Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center at Home will host daily pop-up classrooms for families and regularly update videos of performances—archival, home-made, documentary, or previously broadcast—by our organizations across the campus. Lincoln Center world-class artists, on your screens at home!
The Mark Morris Dance Group offers an on-demand playlist of prerecorded Children & Teens classes in multiple styles, including ballet modern, hip hop, and more. Tune in for creative dance, adaptive dance, toddler/parent with ASL, Dance for Parkinsons, and more.
Our Director of School & Family Programs, Heather McCartney, offers her Kids Picks to round out the year. See her top 8 things to do over winter break, and a celebration of the lives and legacies of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Lewis.
NDI offers free live classes and initiatives to get children of all ages moving! Their joyful, rigorous dance classes are also accessible across the country through the National Summer School Initiative (NSSI), a national nonprofit focused on maintaining academic and social success for children in grades 3-8.
Explore the arts at home! The New Victory Theater's "Arts Break" offers ideas for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their online learning. Each week will focus on a different art form with a series of free activities for kids guided by New Victory Teaching Artists. From acro, tap dance, playmaking, and more, there's an "Arts Break" for everyone.
The ODC Youth & Teen Program provides students from 2 to 18 years old the opportunity to experience dance in a context that values the individual and the creative process. The program is dedicated to high-quality technical training within a non-competitive environment and offers access to many forms of dance.
Our curriculum caters to each student's strengths and is designed to encourage creative expression and a positive body image. The program exposes and connects students to ODC/Dance, a world-class modern dance company; ODC Theater, a presenter of cutting-edge dance, theater and music; and ODC School's adult program, to offer myriad multicultural dance opportunities. It is a nurturing, exciting and dynamic setting for students who seek either sheer enjoyment or a career in dance. The Online Fall Session starts on September 12, 2020 through May 14, 2021.
Register for Pilobolus' series of virtual kids classes with their partners ASAP!
Red Rhino Dance provides inclusive dance opportunities for all. With a focus on the special needs community, people with physical disabilities, and marginalized communities, their mission is to deliver the gift of movement to any student who would benefit from experiencing movement education.
Seattle Theatre Group offers ongoing pre-recorded arts class video sessions that are free and open to students and beyond! Videos are led and created by STG Teaching Artists and offer a variety of genres including dance, music, and musical theatre.
These pre-recorded art class video sessions are offered as part of STG's Digital Access Program, which includes a variety of live-streamed and recorded events open to the public, as well as digital versions of existing STG Education & Community Programs."
Steps PDX offers donation-based classes on their IGTV, including hip hop, house dance, ballet, contemporary, & more! Check out @stepspdx on Instagram today.