This week, we celebrate the work and research of 2016-2017 Museum Education Fellow Camilo Godoy. Cam

This week, we celebrate the work and research of 2016-2017 Museum Education Fellow Camilo Godoy. Camilo has a background in teaching and public programming for adult audiences at the Brooklyn Museum. Camilo’s research focuses on movement-based education as a tool for engagement. Here Camilo reflects on his findings and research.As an artist, my teaching practice engages learners by using movement-based learning strategies to foster intellectual and creative curiosity. For the last three years, I have been researching dance history, practices, and education. My research project is titled Move We Must: Movement-based Education and Public Programs at the Brooklyn Museum.I started my research in the Brooklyn Museum’s Archives to learn about the history of dance at the museum. I found photographs and programs documenting dances presented at the Museum since the 1930’s. Ruth St. Denis and students at the Brooklyn Museum in 1930. Brooklyn Museum Archives. Photo by Camilo Godoy.Soon after I began developing lessons using movement to observe, embody, and interpret artworks. Students used zines to draw and label the artworks. When students viewed a Rodin sculpture, I asked them to stand up and imagine with their bodies that they are slowly becoming that sculpture.L: Drawing by a sixth-grade student of Female Figure, ca. 3500-3400 B.C.E. C: Second-grade students drawing Pierre de Wissant, nu monumental, 1886, cast 1983 by Rodin. R: Second-grade students creating a movement phrase using two sculptures by Rodin. Photos by Camilo Godoy.We also observed Blondell Cummings stunning dance “Chicken Soup” from 1981, then on view in the museum’s exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1966-85. At the end of my lessons we went to the Beaux-Arts Court, the same site where in 1930 choreographer Ruth St. Denis and her students posed for a photograph at the Brooklyn Museum. In this space students worked on creating a movement phrase to perform using the artworks that we had studied.Still from video of a fourth grade student performing a movement phrase inspired by Blondell Cumming’s Chicken Soup, 1981.As part of my fellowship I also assisted in Public Programs. I worked on developing a residency for Brooklyn Dance Festival (BDF) during Target First Saturdays. This year BDF presented on four different Saturdays various dance practices to the museum’s audience, hosted dance workshops that culminated with hundreds of people collectively dancing.I  encourage educators at the Museum to continue to use the space in the Beaux-Arts Court as well as the Rotunda to further explore movement-based strategies. The Brooklyn Museum must celebrate its rich history of dance and performance by enriching its facilitation of movement-based Education and Public Programs.Posted by Katherine Cusiak and Camilo GodoyTop photo: Dancer Miguel Angel Guzmán at the Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Camilo Godoy.  -- source link

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