Introducing Diverse Perspectives and Cultures in PreK Dance Education
We’re excited to welcome two exciting guest facilitators in our DEL Dance for Early Childhood course: Milteri Tucker Concepcion and Godfrey Muwulya!
The DEL Dance for Early Childhood course curriculum encourages learning through play, providing a stimulating, multi-sensory, and nurturing community for diverse young learners to discover their innate movement capacity.
This year, we’re excited to welcome two exciting guest facilitators to our early childhood course: Milteri Tucker Concepcion and Godfrey Muwulya!
The 5-day intensive will explore these guiding questions:
-How can we include social and cultural dance practices in early childhood curricula?
-How do we engage multiple perspectives in early childhood dance?
-Why is it important to share multiple perspectives and different cultures with children?
Milteri Tucker Concepcion, who is from Puerto Rico, will engage participants in Bomba dance, which “dates back to the 17th century. It was practiced and maintained by enslaved and free people of color around the coastal plantations of sugar and coffee.”
Below is a Bomba dance video lesson for young students that Milteri created with us at DEL.
Godfrey Muwulya will introduce dances from Uganda. In this educational video he created with DEL, he shares information about the country and the Ekitaguriro dance, engaging students in rhythms and footwork while providing important geographical context.
Participants in DEL Dance for Early Childhood will receive lots of practical resources to support them in developing lessons and movement activities for young learners. Download a free sample lesson plan below, which uses the classic children’s book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” as a source of inspiration for storytelling through movement.
For additional inspiration and support, please join us in-person at the 92nd Street Y, New York, July 10-14!