Join us in creating a temporary art installation of the Great Lakes in the sand. The image will be illuminated at sunset 8:11pm.
Join us in creating a temporary art installation of the Great Lakes in the sand. The image will be illuminated at sunset 8:11pm. Percussion and Vocalization by Strawberry Moon Singers Illumination by overpass Light Brigade Inspiration by local community and spiritual leaders. Activation coordinated by DanceCircus. Documentation by doc/UWM. We encourage biking or walking to […]
WATER MEASURES
coming from a shoreline to you. Explore the geography of the Great Lakes, how it formed and how it continuesto be reformed. Put on your shore shoes and join SPLASH DANCE Reduex — dance to the flash mob video, SPLASH DANCE . Watch out for the perils to fresh […]
Arts @ Large Residency at Milwaukee Environmental Sciences School November 8-December 19, 2013 and January 14-17, 2014
Artist-educator Betty Salamun and Milwaukee Environmental Sciences School teacher Melissa Howard used the Urban Land Ethic to create a performance program for the unique needs of Melissa’s first grade classroom. Students learned about how to: Make the Invisible Visible, and, Understand How Nature Sustains Life through the water cycle of precipitation, percolation and evaporation. Students explored energy differences, such as […]
2012 Kosciuszko Montessori School Arts @ Large residency with K-3 to 5th grades
Students explored the 7 Basic Movements (jump, turn, fall, roll, balance, travel, gesture): upper primary students worked with haiku poetry; lower primary used weather systems to create dances; K-3 to K-5 learn the differences between frog jumps (big push with the legs, then land and balance) and rabbit jumps (reach hands out, jump feet in) […]
Woodlands Elementary School Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s A.C.E. Program with 6th graders
Artistic Director Betty Salamun annually works with Woodlands middle school students in eco-arts residencies. Retiring science teacher Carol Double suggested a dance linking the school’s Adopt-A-Beach program and illustrating the beauty of Lake Michigan. In 2013, 15 boys and girls learned a section of Betty’s dance “What I know about Lake Michigan” (from Wade in […]