Finding Grace Curriculum
Finding Grace
A curricular collaboration between Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs, 92NY Dance Education Laboratory (DEL), and Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
92NY DEL Curriculum Writer: Deborah Damast
The Finding Grace curriculum is based on Ronald K. Brown’s masterwork Grace, a work commissioned in 1999 for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater by then Artistic Director Judith Jamison.
Students study Ronald K. Brown’s style through movement, embedded instructional videos and interviews created specifically for this curriculum, including warm-up sequences and three excerpts from Grace.
The curriculum—created for elementary, middle, and high school students—invites educators to engage with Grace as both a work of art and a way of being. It uses Grace as a springboard for students to explore creating movement, developing cultural literacy, and fostering Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Students explore ideas of transformation, healing, resistance, forgiveness, grace, and compassion. The Finding Grace curriculum is aligned with the New York City Department of Education’s Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance: PreK-12, the National Core Arts Standards (NCAS), and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Framework.
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