MDD & Chelsea Factory Present: Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change at Chelsea Factory

February 2024, New York, NY

Contact: Maddie Moayedi. info@markdegarmodance.org. 713-962-7361

Mark DeGarmo Dance and Chelsea Factory Present Mark DeGarmo Dance’s DANCE EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE 2024.  Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2024 features accomplished NYC educators & artists discussing MDD’s evidence-based Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program’s impacts on NYC public schools & students on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 6:00-8:00 PM at Chelsea Factory. 

WHEN: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 6:00-8:00 PM 

WHERE: Chelsea Factory; 547 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001

RSVP for this free event: https://www.chelseafactory.org/mdd-danceedroundtable - Reservations required.

Donations: https://markdegarmodance.org/donate/

Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2024 explores the reasons why its Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program was deemed “a national model” by the National Endowment for the Arts. A Johns Hopkins University researcher published a 2018 study showing that MDD’s embodied cognition program’s promising evidence included “statistically significant” increases in NYC public school students’ grade 4 state reading tests. MDD annually partners with under-resourced & marginalized NYC public elementary schools across the 5 boroughs serving up to 1,000 students & 200 teachers.

Panelists (in formation): Callie Hatchett, MDD Teaching Artist in Dance & Creativity; Melissa Levy, E.S.L. Teacher, P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman Learning Center, Harlem; & Johnathan Putterman, Drama Teacher, P.S. 521 Archer Elementary, Bronx. Moderator: Kathleen Kheel, MDD Board President; Director, Discovery Programs, NYC.

About Mark DeGarmo Dance

Operating since 1982 & incorporated in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a leading NYC nonprofit dance organization based since 2001 in the Lower East Side at NYC-owned The Clemente Center. MDD’s mission is to educate NYC communities, & especially children; create, perform, & disseminate original artistic & scholarly work; & build intercultural community through dance arts. MDD commits its resources to serving anti-racism, social justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, & sovereignty across multiple fronts through dance arts in NYC, USA, & internationally. https://markdegarmodance.org, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Vimeo. 

Mark DeGarmo Dance’s programs are supported, in part, by private and public funds from American Online Giving Foundation; Benevity; Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation; Bernheim Foundation; Blackbaud Giving Fund; Friends of Mark DeGarmo Dance; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Jody and John Arnhold; JPMorgan Chase Foundation; Mental Insight Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Network for Good; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York City Department of Education; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; PwC Charitable Foundation; Religious Society of Friends; Richard and Lisa Cashin Fund; Ruth and Seymour Klein Foundation; and Sarah J. Finlayson and Lindley G. DeGarmo Fund.