Teaching Artist - Dance; Styles Center Sunset Park

JOB TITLE:

Teaching Artist – Dance (Various Styles)

JOB TYPE:
Full time, 30-35 hours a week

DEPARTMENT:
School-Based Programming, Middle School and High School

EXEMPTION:
Non exempt

REPORTS TO:

Program Director

SUPERVISES: NA

WEEKLY

HOURS:

Between 10:30 am –6:30 pm (hours subject to change around special events and performances)

Center for Family Life in Sunset Park (CFL) (https://centerforfamilylife.org), is a nationally recognized social service organization. CFL's mission is to promote positive outcomes for children and adults in Sunset Park, Brooklyn by providing a comprehensive range of neighborhood-based family and social services. This role is part of the Life Lines Community Arts Project, which has a long history of facilitating high-quality community-based art making with adolescent youth in our vibrant neighborhood.

The Dance Teaching Artist’s role focuses on creating and facilitating meaningful dance activities and experiences for middle and high school-aged youth. The Dance Teaching Artist will design implement age-appropriate dance activities in various styles, for a variety of skills levels and will choreograph dances for performances throughout the year.

• Design age-appropriate, standards-based dance curricula for groups of middle and/or high school age youth in school day, after school and summer programs
• Provide instruction in a range of dance styles, choreograph dance pieces,and lead weeklydanceactivities for middle school and high school student groups
• Collaborate with participants to make dance pieces and original material to be showcased in performances for the program, school, and/or community throughout the year
• Choreograph, direct, and collaborate with colleagues to produce 3 annual program-wide performances, including a n original production that brings to life the struggles and vitality of our diverse community as well as two productions adapted from middle grade and children’s literature.
• The creation of the original production includes staff attendance on overnight cabin-based camping trips with youth which provide opportunities for rehearsals and community building.
• Collaborate with other teaching artists on other interdisciplinary projects, some of which take place during school-day time in partnership with DOE staff.
• Work as part of a diverse staff team to contribute to the overall supervision of the after school and in school program, the planning and execution of special events, staff development training, and other community building activities, outside of the realm of dance instruction.

• Education/Degree minimum requirement:
  Bachelor’s Degree or at least 4 years of experience as a dance instructor
• Experience working with middle school and high school students
• Has a strong dance background in a variety of dance styles and techniques
• Can use the medium of dance to promote self-expression, skill development in performing arts, social emotional learning, and community-building, and is interested to learn about and work in a social group work model
• Demonstrates a commitment to promoting dance for all, is interested in working with students with a varying level of dance skills and getting student s excited about dance
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Flexibility and the ability to work well as a member of a team of different disciplines (artists, social workers, teachers, young-adult staff)
• Interested in managing and creating positive experiences for diverse groups, including participants with disabilities and participants with behavior challenges
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and medical clearance,…