Artist-in-residence

An artist-in-residence program is a series of workshops during which teaching artists, with the ongoing support of classroom teachers or afterschool staff, actively engage students in creative experiences. These programs are skills-based and integrate into the curriculum.

Performing arts residencies typically begin with an assembly program so that students are introduced to the art form before they “try it on” for themselves. Residencies may be as long as a school desires and can be customized to meet schools curricular needs and budgetary constraints.

All residencies require a planning session so that teachers and teaching artists can discuss shared learning goals. It is possible to end longer residencies with a student performance or exhibition. Workshop sessions may be scheduled on sequential days or spread out over several weeks to allow time for classroom work between sessions.

Below is a list of residencies that YAMD staff can design with you. If you do not see an artistic discipline, time period, or culture represented, we may be able to customize an experience for you.
For complete artist in-residence descriptions, use our searchable database.

Prices of these programs vary. To learn more or to schedule a program, call 410.837.7577 ext. 10 or download, complete and return this form vial email to patc@yamd.org.

Dance Residencies

Ballet Theatre of Maryland

Exploring American History Through Dance
BTM dance residencies focus on creative movement and dance styles from a variety of cultures and time periods such as Celtic, Jazz, Classical, and Ballet.
Grade Level: 1-8

Dishibem Traditional Contemporary Dance Group

Origins
This residency infuses storytelling, dance, and music into reading. During the course of the residency, students will analyze and interpret teacher selected text and creatively express their comprehension of the text through movement. This residency builds skills in sequencing and reading comprehension while providing an outlet for self expression.
Grade Level: 2-12

footworks percussive dance ensemble

Roots and Rhythm
Residency workshops include percussive dance, singing, "hamboning," and improvisational exercises with 2-3 artists.
Grade Level: K-12

Anna Menendez
classical spanish dancer

La Fiesta del Baile
Students will explore basic flamenco dance techniques and rhythms. Students will also be exposed to Spanish cultural studies and vocabulary.
Grade Level: 1-5; 9-12

Ssuuna
african dancer

African Drumming
Students learn some of the dances and rhythms of traditional and modern East Africa.
Grade Level: K-12

bay street brassworks

The Brassworks Residency
Students will develop skills, learn the history, and acquire techniques in playing brass instruments.
Grade Level: 5-12

c. shells
singers / songwriters

Songwriting with C. Shells
Students learn about rhythm, rhyme, and the basic elements of music, such as tempo, as they write new verses for familiar songs like "The Ants Go Marching."
Grade Level: K-3

barry dove percussion trio

Global Percussion
Students discover what percussion is and how sounds are produced and what makes rhythms unique, such as bossa nova, mambo, or rumba.
Grade Level: 2-5

Alden Phelps

Perfectly Preposterous Parodies
Teaches students how to create their own songs, poems, and rhymes while understanding “economic decision making” and cause and effect. Alden explores the concepts of irony, parody, rhyme structure and elements of speech, and explains how to apply them to themes like transportation and technology. The residency combines elements of language arts, social studies, and economics.
Grade Level: 3-5

Ssuuna
african drummer

African Drumming
Students learn some of the dances and rhythms of traditional and modern East Africa.
Grade Level: K-12

lakshmi swaminathan
classical indian dancer

Bharatanatyam Immersion
Students are introduced to hand gestures, facial expressions and feet positions to create decorative patterns in Classical Indian dance. Students learn how to combine these dance patterns to perform a short story.
Grade Level: 3-12

Storeytelling through Dance:
Myths, Legends, & Folk Tales of India
Students will investigate relationships between dance and language arts in order to learn how to combine dance patterns to perform a short story in English in the Bharatanatyam style.
Grade Level: 3-12

baltimore shakespeare festival

A Midsummer Night's Dream
This program includes one week of pre-curriculum to be delivered by the classroom teacher followed by two weeks of performance based instruction delivered by a Festival actor/teacher. Program culminates in a 20-minute student performance.
Grade Level: 6-8

Romeo and Juliet: Exploring Character, Plot, and Theme through Tableau Vivant
A Baltimore Shakespeare Festival teaching artist will work with students to explore the consequences of violence by embodying characters in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Students will gain an understanding of character study through reading and analyzing text, choosing costume pieces, and collaborating with peers to create Tableau Vivant (Living Tableaus) of eight scenes from Romeo and Juliet. This residency incorporates the VSC Language Arts Content Standards for Comprehension of Literary Text and the VSC Theatre Content Standard for Creative Expression and Production.
Grade Level:6-8

gayle danley
slam poet

Get Slammin'
Students and teachers gain insight into the process by which Gayle writes her slam poetry with workshops that introduce her step-by-step method. The residency ends with your own school Poetry Slam Competition!
Grade Level: 4-12

Linda fang
storyteller

Everyone is a Storyteller I
Students will learn how to make a story come alive by using different voices, facial expressions, and movements. They will learn to tell one or more stories.
Grade Level: 1-5

Everyone is a Storyteller II
Students will hear Chinese proverb stories and learn how to tell them. They will also develop stories of matching themes from their own culture or personal experience.
Grade Level: 6-12

jali-D
the drum talker

Rhythms and rhymes for Wise Young Minds
Students are introduced to the idea of "Rappercussions," an art form that combines intelligent and educational hip-hop and rap with African style drumming. Students work with Jali-D to create an original poem in the "Rappercussions" style.
Grade Level: 4-8

carolyn koerber
puppeteer / storyteller

Puppets Tell a Tale
Students will learn how to take a folktale, poem, or original story and bring it to life with puppets. Students will put elements learned together to create a puppet story.
Grade Level: 1-5

Create a Puppet World
Students will have to figure out what puppets, props, and scenery they will need for their world, how they will make them and how to put all these elements together to make a series of "moving pictures."
Grade Level: 3-12

arianna ross
storyteller

Taste of Storytelling
Students will learn how to bring a story to life through creative movement, voice and instruments thoughout the world.
Grade Level: K-5

The World's Dramatic History
Students will explore a historical topic through a series of creative drama and storytelling exercises.
Grade Level: 2-8; 9-12

Documentary Storytelling
Stories and photographs serve as a vehicle for personal and historical reflection when students examine the different ways to document their history.
Grade Level: 5-12

synetic theater: Pantomime for Youth

Fables in Movement
Students explore the three elements Synetic Theater integrates into its performaces: movement, acting, and pantomime. Following a workshop in each discipline, students will choreograph selected fables.
Grade Level: 3-12

Bringing Your Studies to Life
Multicultural studies will come to life as Synetic actors to help students tackle and explore a subject by creating a theatre scene about it.
Grade Level: 3-12

time for sign

Listen With Your Eyes!
The residency offers students the opportunity to become more proficient in American Sign Language, and introduces the power and immediacy contained in the culture and language of the Deaf community.
Grade Level: K-5

Tony tsendeas
actor/director/writer

Playwriting in the Classroom
Students will develop skills in building dramatic characters and formatting a script and create a scene or brief one act play.
Grade Level: 4-12

Richard duerer
actor/director/writer

Creating an EgyptArt Mural
After drawing depictions of themselves as Ancient Egyptians and becoming familiar with hieroglyphics, symbols and gods, students will paint outlines of these sketches on a designated wall.
Grade Level: 4-12

Linda Fang

Chinese Culture

Students are introduced to the art of Chinese calligraphy, paper cutting, and paper folding.
Grade Level: 3-8

Caryl Henry-Alexander
Visual Artist

Your School Community Mural/Banner Project
Classroom curriculum and the arts combine to teach participants how to compare, contrast, and translate their ideas into a mural or banner that represents their community.
Grade Level: 3-12

Story Masks: A Multicultural Mask Making Residency
Students will explore, research, and create mixed media masks honoring ancestors known and unknown. Students will draw, paint, and sculpt.
Grade Level: 3-12

Our Good Character Caricatures
Young artists will explore character traits and the art of portraiture. The workshops will focus on multiple artistic styles and techniques that will expand students visual vocabulary.
Grade Level: 3-12

Reading, Math, Science Quilt
Students will work collectively to develop, design, and create a fabric quilt that can be used as a teaching tool in math, science, or reading.
Grade Level: 3-8

Amanda Pellerin
Visual Artist

Handmade Tile and Mosaic Murals
Students have the opportunity to participate in planning and designing the mural content, creating handmade tile from raw clay, cutting and shaping fired tile, tile layout, and the cementing and grouting process.
Grade Level: K-12