UNITED WE DANCE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER AND THEATER

DANCE CLASSES INCLUDE BALLET, BALLROOM, TAP, TANGO, SALSA, HIPHOP, CAPOEIRA,

AFRICAN DANCE, AND LATIN BASIC CHACHA

UNITED WE DANCE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER AND THEATERAKRON, OHIO

THE UNITED WE DANCE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER AND THEATER PROVIDES AN INNOVATIVE HOLISTIC STYLE OF ART

APPRECIATION WHICH PENETRATES THE MIND, MOVES THE BODY, AND PERMEATES THE SOUL.

PARTICIPATION IN MUSIC,DANCE,THEATER, AND THE VISUAL ARTS EMPOWERS YOUTH TO MAKE CRITICAL CHOICES

INVOLVING THEIR FUTURE

LIFE IS A JOURNEY AND YOUNG PEOPLE OFTEN FIND THEMSELVES AT THE CROSSROADS. BY INCREASING AWARENESS OF POTENTIAL

THRU THE ARTS, WE TEACH THEM TO LOOK BEYOND THEIR CURRENT ENVIORMENT AND TO CATCH A VISION OF WHERE THEY

ARE GOING, AND WHO THEY CAN BECOME

TEEN PREGNANCY,DEPRESSION, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY ARE

PROMINENT IN ALMOST EVERY AREA IN THE UNITED STATES. ALL CHILDREN ARE AT RISK

THEATER AND MUSIC

CHILDREN AND THE ARTS

CHILDREN WILL EXPERIENCE PHOTOGRAPHY,CULINARY ARTS, SCREENPLAY

WRITING, TECHNOLOGY

WHERE MULTICULTURAL PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES COME TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF TO

IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH THE ARTS

EDUCATION

• Daily Living Skills Social Development Work and Study Habits

Dietary Needs Personal Development Career Planning

• Planning a Weekly Menu Communication Getting and Maintaining a Job

• Grocery Shopping Cultural Diversity Filling Out Applications

• Practice Cooking Being part of a community Writing a Resume

• Dinning Etiquette Money Management Preparing for an interview

• Home Safety Repairs Personal Budgets Understanding Your Paycheck

• Self Care Savings& Checking Being a Team Player

• Personal Hygiene Bank Accounts Planning for a College Exercising Credit Cards Relationships/Sexuality

• Caring for simple injuries Benefits of excellent credit Healthy Relationships

• Going to the doctor How to avoid credit pitfalls Responsible Dating

• Transportation Community Resources Pregnancy and STD’s

• How to get a License Creating a directory

• Cost of Owning a car Keeping track of important documents

EDUCATION AND THE ARTSYOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

EDUCATION ARTS

Highlights From Key National Research on Arts Education

-The opportunity to be instructed in music or dance disciplines offered a variety of compelling social benefits for students in addition to the knowledge and skill of an art. (source: Champions of Change)

-Juvenile Delinquent males ages 8-19 were given instruction in and performance opportunities on the guitar improved both their self confidence in terms of their musical ability and general self worth verses other juvenile delinquent males in the same age group given instruction but no performance opportunities.(source: Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development)

-Elements of music and reading are highly relative in first grade. Students were tested on various elements of music and reading and a strong relationship was found between a students awareness of pitch and their ability to sound out material in reading. Material that included standard language and phonetic material.(source: Educational Leadership “The Music in our Mind.”)

-At risk first graders who were taught basic letter and sound connections through improvisional movement improved more in those basic reading skills than did the control group of similarly at risk kids. (source: Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development)

-Teenagers serving time in detention facilities benefited from twice-weekly dance classes in ways that led the author to conclude patience, and sometimes even compassion, can be social by products of aesthetic engagement.( source: Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development)

EDUCATION

• Daily Living Skills Social Development Work and Study Habits

Dietary Needs Personal Development Career Planning

• Planning a Weekly Menu Communication Getting and Maintaining a Job

• Grocery Shopping Cultural Diversity Filling Out Applications

• Practice Cooking Being part of a community Writing a Resume

• Dinning Etiquette Money Management Preparing for an interview

• Personal Budgets Understanding Your Paycheck

• Self Care Savings& Checking Being a Team Player

• Personal Hygiene Bank Accounts Planning for a College

Exercising Credit Cards Relationships/Sexuality• Caring for simple injuries Benefits of excellent credit Healthy Relationships

• Going to the doctor How to avoid credit pitfalls Responsible Dating

• Transportation Community Resources STD’s

• How to get a License Creating a directory Pregnancy

• Cost of Owning a car Keeping track of important documents

• Program SummaryEducation and the Arts is a community based youth enrichment program that promotes responsible behaviors that strengthen the spirit of communities thru the Arts. We believe that strong communities build strong families We have focused our attention on the five core values that define basis our program. They are self respect, self esteem, self motivation, self discipline, which ultimately leads to know knowledge of self. We believe that in order to succeed in life, children must be able to have a positive relationship in the following four areas.

1. Self (with themselves)2. Friends (with individuals one to one)3. Family (with an intimate group)4. Society ( with a non intimate group)

The summer program will serve children from the ages of six to sixteen years old.

EDUCATION

• Daily Living Skills Social Development Work and Study Habits

Dietary Needs Personal Development Career Planning

• Planning a Weekly Menu Communication Getting and Maintaining a Job

• Grocery Shopping Cultural Diversity Filling Out Applications

• Practice Cooking Being part of a community Writing a Resume

• Dinning Etiquette Money Management Preparing for an interview

• Home Safety&Repairs Personal Budgets Understanding Your Paycheck

• Self Care Savings& Checking Being a Team Player

• Personal Hygiene Bank Accounts Planning for a College

Exercising Credit Cards Relationships/Sexuality• Caring for simple injuries Benefits of excellent credit Healthy Relationships

• Going to the doctor How to avoid credit pitfalls Responsible Dating

• Transportation Community Resources STD’s

• How to get a License Creating a directory Pregnancy

• Cost of Owning a car Keeping track of important documents

OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE

THE THEATER MAY ALSO BE RENTED BY INDIVIDUALS, SORORITIES, FRATERNITIES, SCHOOLS AND/OR COMPANIES

WHO WISH TO USE THE FACILITY FOR VARIOUS ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS, PARTIES OR FUNDRAISERS.

THE MAIN THEATER WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE A VARIETY OF PERFORMING

ARTS PRODUCTIONS.

AN ECLECTIC PLACE WHERE RESIDENTS, ARTIST AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY CAN CONGREGATE

CHILDREN AGES 6-1O WILL ENJOY

DRAMA, PAINTING, PUPPETRY , STORYTELLING, MAGIC, AND ARTS & CRAFTS

Jazz Acrobatics

dance style is vibrant and enNew ergetic.

You will also learn acrobatic and

gymnastics moves that can be

incorporated into this style of dance.

The Origin of Tap DanceBallet

AFRICAN DANCE

New New New

Jazz Acrobatics

dance style is vibrant and energetic. You

will also learn acrobatic and gymnastics

moves that can be incorporated into this

style of dance.

The Origin of Tap DanceBallet