SchoolTime

Over the past 25 years, many thousands of Bay Area schoolchildren have experienced the performing arts at weekday performances in Zellerbach Hall featuring the same outstanding performing artists featured on our main season. Teachers can integrate the arts into their core curriculum through pre-and post-performance engagement opportunities and customized study guides, making SchoolTime an essential component of a child's creative and educational experience.

All SchoolTime performances take place from 11 am to 12 noon in Zellerbach Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus.





2012/13 SchoolTime Performances

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Modern dance
Thu, Apr 25
Fri, Apr 26
SOLD OUT
The energy of SchoolTime is embodied by the incomparable Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. With the inspired leadership of artistic director Robert Battle, the ensemble confirms what dance lovers worldwide have long known—nothing beats the Ailey company's unparalleled artistry, athletic strength, and boundless passion. The SchoolTime program features the "divinely timeless, rousing, and radiant" Revelations (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)—and works by today's most exciting choreographers.

Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus (Seven Fingers Circus)
Circus arts from Canada
Fri, May 3
Canada's phenomenal nouveau cirque troupe blends acrobatics, avant-garde dance, physical comedy, music, song, video projections and a live DJ. Les 7 Doigts delves into the rich and surreal underworld of the human psyche in PSY, a dazzling new production. Traveling through a shifting landscape of wildly entertaining distorted visions, fading dreams and fractured memories, "You'll be totally bowled over and never want it to end," according to London's TimeOut. "You'll be moved emotionally at least as often as you're just flat-out astounded."



2013/14 SchoolTime Performances








A full 2013/14 SchoolTime & Cal Performances in the Classroom brochure and order form will be available in Summer 2013. For more information contact 510.642.9838 or eduprogramscalperformances.org.

Cal Performances in the Classroom

A 3-Part Enrichment Program

Part 1: Professional Development Workshops for Teachers
Expert teaching artists focus on integrating the performing arts into core classroom curriculum in a three-hour workshop for teachers. Participants learn creative strategies and take part in exercises they can use to engage students with the art forms, topics and cultures of SchoolTime performances. The session includes a workbook with connections to classroom learning and performing arts standards; supplemental audio and visual materials and a certificate of completion and/or BUSD credit (upon request).

Part 2: In-School Sessions with Teaching Artists
Artists, alongside classroom teachers, work closely with students to instill an active understanding of their art form. Students gain direct performing arts experience and insight into world cultures and history through class sessions where they participate in dance, music, theater and circus activities. (In-school sessions are subject to artist availability and are available only to teachers who complete the workshop.)

Part 3: SchoolTime Performance
Students attend a SchoolTime performance at Zellerbach Hall. Workshop resources, artist coaching and study guides are designed to deliver a heightened experience in the theater, inspire post-performance discussions, and encourage meaningful connections to classroom curriculum.

Workshops for Teachers

The Music of Revelations
Sat, Mar 23, 10 am-1 pm
Subject Areas: Dance, Music, History
David McCauley, director of Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances, and conductor/musician Melanie DeMore combine their expertise to reveal how the interplay of dynamic gesture and evocative African American spirituals capture profound feelings of the human spirit. The workshop shares choreography, history, and song for a deep understanding of this work's power and significance.
SchoolTime Performances: Thu & Fri, Apr 25 & 26. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (SOLD OUT)



Enrollment in 2013/14 Cal Performances in the Classroom will be available in will be available in summer 2013. For more information, contact the K-12 Education Programs Administrator at 510.642.6838 or eduprogramscalperformances.org

TEMPO

TEMPO (Teens Empowered by Music and Performance Opportunities) is a program that provides music instruction for youth in alternative school environments. Led by Teaching Artist Melanie DeMore and Partnering with the Alameda County Office of Education and CALSafe, a program that provides essential life skills for parenting teens, TEMPO's musical foundation opens possibilities the students may not otherwise encounter. Each ten session unit includes tickets to a SchoolTime concert.

Study Guides

Customized Study Guides designed for pre- and post-performance learning prepare students for their SchoolTime field trip with engaging activities and points for classroom discussions. Study guides:

• Encourage critical thinking and help students prepare for and reflect on their experience at the theater.
• Provide cultural, historical and artistic context for each performance.
• Deliver comprehensive information about the artists and the art form.
• Connect to core curricular areas such as social studies, literature and history.
• Offer exercises designed to support California Content Standards for Visual and Performing Arts, Reading, and Language Arts, Social Studies and World Cultures.
• Are available one month prior to the performance via mail, PDF, and on the Cal Performances web site.

2012/13 Season

• Kronos Quartet
• Mummenschanz
• Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
• Circus Oz
• Wynton Marsalis
• Afropop Spectacular
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus

AileyCamp

Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances is a nationally acclaimed summer program, inspired by Alvin Ailey and administered and fully funded by Cal Performances, now in its second decade on the UC Berkeley campus. Designed to develop self-esteem, discipline and critical thinking through dance instruction complemented by personal development and creative communication classes, this tuition free program for youth ages 11-14 has changed the lives of hundreds of young people. Contact AileyCamp Director David McCauley at 510.642.4630 or aileycampcalperformances.org for more information.