Arts Learning

Proposed project outcomes include involving up to 275 adults and 60 children/youth in a series of Dancing Heart interactive participatory performing arts sessions, a 2-hr in-service training and a culminating Intergenerational Dance Hall. We have goals of 80% of selected participants self-reporting as having developed their integrated artistic skills; increasing their mastery in the language of dance, improvisation, musical expression, creative dramatics and storytelling in one or more of these areas; creating unique participatory dance/music/story performances; participating in enjoyable dance/music/story experiences; and participating in the final Intergenerational Dance Hall. Between Kairos Alive! artists and Centro Tyrone Guzman staff and participants will take place following Kairos Alive! programs. We use a standard question form at each Kairos Alive! Intergenerational Dance Hall which was developed in a recent project sponsored by Medica: In a post sequence focus group and in personal interviews conducted and documented by Centro Tyrone Guzman staff, we gauge the effectiveness of the project to create pride and purpose in elder participants by getting responses to the questions, "In what ways did you feel that the creative process allowed you to make a contribution to your family and/or community," and "How did the community performance influence your children/grandchildren's understanding of your life and personal experiences?"