Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
Finding Friends Community Dance Exchange Performances.
Osman Mohamed Ali: Founder and Executive Director; Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director; Cristeta Boarini: freelance audio producer, journalist, writer, Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director, Alejandra Iannone: Creative Co-Director, Wu Chen Khoo: Technical: Stage Technical Designer,Stage Director, Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Consultant, Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Donna Saul Millen: Events Director, Christal Moose: Manager, Adaobi Okolue: Executive Director, Andrea Sjogren: Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator, Deanna StandingCloud: Program and Community Network Director, Sara Wilson: Attorney.
Dan Peltzman: General Management and Administration, Organizational Development and Planning; Dawne Brown White: General Management and Administration, Fundraising, Organizational Development; Haley Cramer: Artistic, Finance, Organizational Development; Laura Leffler:, Artistic, Organizational Development, General Administration; Mai Vang: Organizational Development, General Administration, Community Education; Mike Alberti: General Administration, Education, Artistic; Nora Riemenschneider: General Administration, Youth Programming, Artistic; Sara Kleinsasser Tan: Organizational Development, Education, General Administration.
ACHF Arts Access
Kairos Alive! will mount the Finding Friends Community Dance Exchange Performances. It involves creating a new choreographed dance/song/story/theater work based on “Finding Friends,” in collaboration with Minneapolis Chilean-born flutist Vladimir Garrido-Biagetti and his band Alma Andina, and American Chilean-born Minnesota Orchestra flutist Dr. Emilio Rutllant. The work is developed in collaboration and performed with elders and their surrounding communities at 4 participatory Intergenerational Dance Hall™ performance events, one each at Centro Tyrone Guzman, Volunteers of America Park ElderCenter, Minneapolis American Indian Center and Orchestra Hall. It involves interactive participatory community dance, song and story engagement at each venue and is a multi-age inter-cultural exchange. It has a goal of enhancing mutual mentoring and inspiration between elders and youth through performing arts engagement. The new work will then enter the Kairos Alive! repertoire. Participants’ complete pre and post survey in Spanish developed in consultation with researcher Dr. Adriana Perez; measuring self-perceived qualitative changes in their artistic, social, cognitive and physical engagement. At IDH, participants invited to do short survey using a systematic sampling approach measuring: (1) mood improvement (2) feelings of recognition/importance (3) feelings of social connection (4) increase in physical movement/mobility, (5) dance, music, story learning. Participants asked if IDH has motivated them to creatively express themselves in new ways and allows room for additional comments. After each KairosAlive program, Kairos Artists complete Teaching Artist Reflections, tracking instances of participant skill development in dance/storytelling. They also record relevant demographics, site information and any staff, participant, and volunteer feedback. All participant surveys and TA Reflection results are put into our database for use in future program planning and reporting.
A combined 416 people attended the four IDH events at the four venues. In post-event surveys, 90.5% of respondents said that, as a result of their participation, their mood improved moderately or a lot; 94.5% said they felt recognized and important moderately or a lot; 89% said they connected with others moderately or a lot; and 78% said they moved in new ways or more than usual moderately or a lot.
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