Ascential Arts
Nicaragua (Ometepe)
Florida & Colorado
United States
ph: 720-515-3777
alt: 505-8451 2202 (Nicaragua)
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Outreach/
Community Service
Residencies/Outreach
Carla Menchinella
Sundiata
l:Begin Ag@in:l 2008
Choreography by: Jen Archer
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Garden Place Academy
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance OutReach
Dates: Sept. 19 - Dec. 21, 2017
*Jen Archer gives 2-3 Grade after-school bilingual dance classes twice a week. Thursdays 4-5pm and Tuesdays 2-3pm.
Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: African Dance Class
Date: Jan. 25, 2016
*Jen Archer taught two 45-minute dance classes classes of 7th graders.
Ometepe Bilingual School
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: Language Through the Arts/Idioma Traves delas Artes
Date(s): Dec. 2013, Feb.-June 2014, Sept.-Nov. 2015
*We taught English through the art of dance! In 2014, we had 98 unique student contacts from both volcanos in five months. In 2015 we had 78 unique students meet in our local village of Merida. Traveling from at least 5 villages, students had 66 classes in 9 weeks and showed up for 534 attendance records! The kinders learned 80 new words in 2 months!
ORMAO (Colorado Springs premiere professional dance company!)
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: To set new/commissioned work 'Nibari' on pre-professional dancers.
Date: April 2010
Boulder Country Day School (K-8)
Artists: Ascential Dance Theatre Colorado
Project: To provide a performance for their annual 'Interfest' Celebration - a day of honoring music, dance and art from all over the world. We prepared a lec-dem with voices from Africa, Brazil, Egypt, Cuba & Native America.
Date: March 12, 2010
Colorado Ballet
Artists: Jen Archer and Jesse Garcia
Project: To provide Ballet and Creative Movement classes as outreach to elementary & middle schoolers.
Date: January-April, 2010
Breakthrough @ Kent Denver School
Artist: Jen Archer, Paula Coffman, Candess Giyan, Jacob Mora
Project: To give dance classes to "At-risk" Middle Schoolers
Date: Summer 08 & 09
Kent Denver School's Summer Camp Program
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: To provide choreography for Wizard of OZ and Narnia in collaboration with the Theatre Department. To also provide JaM camp to High-schoolers.
Date: June-July, 2009
Red Rocks Community College
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: To provide beginning level Ballet, Modern and World Dance classes to college students.
Date: Ongoing Spring & Fall semesters 2009
Walt Whitman Elementary
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: To provide dance/movement classes for the school's Field Day
Date: May 8, 2009
Colorado Ballet
Artists: Jen Archer and Jesse Garcia
Project: To provide Ballet and Creative Movement classes to Central Elementary School.
Date: January-March, 2009
Aerial Dance Festival
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: To provide beginning stilt-walking classes and choreography for the festival performances.
Date: August 2-15, 2009
'Day of Dance' at South High School
Artist: Jen Archer
Project: To provide introductory dance classes to high school dance students in celebration of National Dance Month 2009.
Date: April 29, 2009
Community Service
Sabrosa
l:Begin Ag@in:l 2008
Dancers: Carla Menchinella and Sara Lohmeyer
Things we've done
- Ascential Dance adopted LeGault Reservoir in Broomfield and hosts monthly Trash-A-Thons to keep the park clean. We have 'had' the park for 8 years in 2016!
- We raised over $1,000 for our Nicaraguan programs in 2015!
- Volunteered over 100 clean-up hours from June 08-June 09
- Our scholarships students Kaylen Compton and Mary Haydon received full tuition scholarships with funds donated at our concession sale at l:Begin Ag@in:l and private donations. (2008)
- Students, professional company members and directors voulnteered for 6 hours at Broomfield Days in September 2008. We handed out promotional materials and accepted donations for cookies and lemonade. Students presented a short demonstration on the PERFORMING ARTS stage.
- Professional company members perform for little or no salary because they are dedicated to dance education and preservation. In its first year Ascential Dance Theatre Colorado performed 10 shows for free for the Denver/Boulder communities.
Ascential Arts
Nicaragua (Ometepe)
Florida & Colorado
United States
ph: 720-515-3777
alt: 505-8451 2202 (Nicaragua)
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