Dancing Classrooms

Dancing Classrooms http://katietraxler.com/ballroom

Dancing Classrooms is an in-school social and emotional learning program that cultivates essential life skills for our 5 grade students through the practice of ballroom dance.

The Nutcracker Project

New York City Ballet: The Nutcracker Project - http://katietraxler.com/nutcracker

The Nutcracker Project is designed to promote individual and group artistic expression inspired by themes, choreography, and music from George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™. NYCB Teaching Artists and classroom teachers engage students in interdisciplinary workshops and lessons, and all participants attend a live performance at Lincoln Center. The newly-revised curriculum focuses on active art making, collaboration, and critical reflection through poetry and creative movement.

Inside Broadway’s goal is to introduce our city’s young people to the joys and advantages of live theatre. Since New York City is the theatre capitol of the world, and every PS 174 student has the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be in the spotlight and bask in the applause.

Students in this program will learn all the necessary elements of theatre to build their own musical. These unique programs integrate all theatrical techniques such as choreography, voice, and acting while being conducted by a theatre professional who will guide your students to finding the star inside of them. This fun and interactive residency is designed to give our students a true theatrical experience. So we will raise the curtain and light the lights!

Ballet Tech

Ballet Tech: http://katietraxler.com/ballettech

The New York City Public School for Dance (NYCPSD) is a unique collaboration between Ballet Tech and the NYC Department of Education. The School, comprised of grades 4-8, integrates ballet-training with a public education. The academic curriculum follows the New York State Regents requirements, supplemented with the arts. Every third graders at PS 174 participates in the audition process here at our school, and may be eligible for participation in Ballet Tech's Winter 2017 Introduction to Ballet Program.

Carnegie Hall: Link Up

Carnegie Hall: Link Up - http://katietraxler.com/linkup

Students in GATE grades 3–5 are given the opportunity to join the orchestra in this highly participatory program, in which they learn to sing and play an instrument in the classroom and perform with a professional orchestra from their seats at a culminating concert at Carnegie Hall.

Carnegie Hall: Musical Explorers

Carnegie Hall: Musical Explorers - http://katietraxler.com/musicalexplorers

This inventive program builds basic music skills in the classroom as children learn songs from different cultures, reflect on their own communities, and develop listening and singing skills. Children in primary GATE classes will visit Carnegie Hall.

At PS 174, we believe that our students deserve the opportunity to experience live performances that are unique, challenging, inventive and powerful, igniting their imaginations and their understanding of the world around them. As members of the New Victory Theater, our students visit carefully crafted shows appropriate for students from K through Grade 5. Our visits are supplemented by pre and post visit workshops from New Vic Teaching Arts, as well as curriculum materials for each show.

PS 174 K-2 Students have the opportunity to participate in Circle of Dance residencies for over 10 years so far! We look forward to these dance lessons every spring and will be expanding our program to our youngest learners, our two PreK classes! Dance is mandated arts requirement for all elementary school children in New York State following a Blueprint for the Arts. Our students learn to communicate through music and movements, expressing themselves and making many connections. Our hope is to inspire and unite through cultural, artistic, and dance making literacy.

Joyce Theater Education is designed as a key tool for arts integration in the classroom. The program fosters an understanding of dance, dance aesthetics and encourages the imagination. Our program consists of year long partnership - both in school for dance making and in the theater to see performances.