July 9–14, 2017 On the Campus of Belmont University apsu.edu/CECA The Tennessee Arts Academy is a project of the Tennessee Department of Education and is funded under a grant contract with the State of Tennessee. Additional support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is provided by the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation, Belmont University, Tennessee Arts Commission, Bonnaroo Works Fund, Gibson Foundation, Brandon Herrenbruck, Jim Holcomb, KHS America, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Sara Savell, Pat and Thane Smith, Steinway Piano Gallery, Tennessee Book Company, and private donors. The Premier Summer Teacher Training Institute for Arts Education WELCOME TO THE TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY From the Governor Dear Friends, On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, it is my honor to welcome participants and guests to the 2017 Tennessee Arts Academy. I congratulate you on your decision to attend this outstanding professional development institute and hope you have lasting memories of this occasion for many years to come. As you gather together again this year, I am sure you will enjoy interacting with colleagues as you further develop your abilities to educate students in music, theatre, and the visual arts. The people of our state are known around the world for their creative talents. Your participation in TAA will help build upon this legacy and advance the next generation of Tennessee artists. Thank you for all that you do to inspire creativity and a love for the arts in our students. Crissy and I send our best wishes and regards for an exciting and enriching event. Warmest regards, Bill Haslam From the Tennessee Department of Education Tennessee Arts Academy, Welcome to the 2017 Tennessee Arts Academy! This is a wonderful opportunity to engage in a challenging and enriching professional learning experience. I hope your time at the Academy will allow for reflection and professional growth. The Academy provides a collaborative approach to strengthen your own instructional practices, which is critical to continued growth for our students and teachers. Thank you for all that you do for Tennessee students. Arts in education is critically important to ensuring students have a well-rounded experience and that we develop creative, critical thinkers in Tennessee. Sincerely, Candice McQueen Commissioner of Education From the President of Belmont University Welcome to Belmont University! We wish to congratulate the Tennessee Arts Academy on its many successful years of developing and encouraging teachers of the arts. We are honored to partner with the Tennessee Department of Education and the Tennessee Arts Academy in this vital work. Belmont is very pleased to host the Tennessee Arts Academy, and we hope your experience is enhanced by our campus environment and facilities. We trust that your time here will be inspirational and productive as you share best practices and learn from gifted instructors. Sincerely, Robert C. Fisher President CONTENTS 4 FacuLTY 8 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS 13 INTERLUDES 22 MUSINGS 24 PERFORmaNCES 26 SPECIAL EVENts 29 AcademY AwaRDS 32 ADMINISTRatiVE COUNCIL AND Staff 35 TAA HISTORY 36 ADVERTISERS 60 CLOSING CRedits TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FACULTY Sandra Adorno Barbara Bashaw and Where the Boys Are, both published by Music: Elementary/Lower Middle Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle Hal Leonard. Her third educational product Sandra Adorno is a visiting Barbara Bashaw is the Front-Loading: Constructing Your Rehearsal for assistant professor of graduate director of Success will be published soon. music education at Stetson dance education teacher Christine Bass’s faculty position has been University in Central preparation at Rutgers generously donated by Bobby Jean Frost, in Florida and a general University in New Jersey. memory of Donna Frost; the Lingner Gift Fund; music teacher at Stetson’s Her early career involved and Lee Stites, in memory of Marilee Kester Stites. Community School of collaborating with dozens Music. Prior to these of classroom and arts Alexis Black positions, she was an adjunct professor of music teachers in the New York City public schools Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary education at Florida International University and through ArtsConnection before founding Alexis Black is a a teaching assistant at the University of Miami. her own interdisciplinary dance program professional actor, She has also worked as a general music teacher in a public elementary school in Brooklyn. teacher, director, and fight for Palm Beach County Schools and Frost Music Her teaching methods have been featured in director who has worked Reach. She is certified in both Smithsonian various publications, such as Lauren Resnick’s on international tours, Folkways World Music Pedagogy and in Orff- literacy learning books and Dance Teacher television, and Broadway. Schulwerk Level III from the San Francisco magazine. Bashaw is the president of DanceNJ Beginning this fall, she will International Orff Course. She has also received and is actively involved with the National Dance serve as visiting assistant extensive training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics Education Organization, for which she serves professor of theatre at Adams State University and Modern Band. Adorno has served as an as one of the writers for the new National Core in Alamosa, Colorado, where she will teach in-service and pre-service music teacher trainer Arts Standards in Dance. She is also on the advanced acting, directing, and movement. As throughout the country and is published in faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory an educator, Black has taught numerous classes Reverberations: Teachers Teaching Teachers, and has presented more than one hundred and workshops for colleges, theatre companies, Florida Music Director, and Smithsonian professional workshops and conference middle schools, and high schools. Her specialties Folkways’ Tools for Teaching. sessions nationally and internationally. include stage combat, improvisation, Viewpoints, and the Michael Chekhov and Meisner Julia Ashworth Christine Bass techniques. As an actress she has worked in New Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle Music: Upper Middle/Secondary York City and with regional theatres; she has also Julia Ashworth is assistant Christine Bass is an appeared on AMC and the Discovery Channel. teaching professor of assistant professor of Black’s fight direction credits include the New theatre education in the music education at Temple York Fringe Festival, American Globe Theatre, theatre and media arts University and the director and the Virginia Repertory Theatre. She is also department at Brigham of the Temple University part of the all-female, comedic fight troupe Young University (BYU). Women’s Chorus. Prior Vixens: En Garde! Ashworth has worked to these positions, she in the field of arts taught for twenty-two Kevin Coleman education—as an artist, administrator, and years at Cherry Hill West High School in Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary kindergarten through twelfth grade teacher— Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where she grew a Kevin Coleman is a for more than fifteen years. Ashworth’s sixty-student program into one with more founding member, work focuses primarily on theatre for young than three hundred students in seven choirs. teacher, director, and audiences and applied theatre practices. Her men’s a cappella group, Men of Note, won current education Her duties in the theatre and media arts three consecutive National Championships director for Shakespeare department include serving as the program for Best of High School A Cappella. She has and Company in Lenox, director for the theatre education program and conducted numerous All State and Honors Massachusetts, where he the artistic director for Young Company, BYU’s Choirs, including the American Choral teaches clown, rhetoric, Theatre for Young Audiences touring group. Directors Association’s All National High School stage combat, and text. Coleman has taught, In 2013, Ashworth directed The Nightingale Honors Choir, which she conducted in 2009. directed, or been a guest artist at Columbia in China. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s Bass regularly serves as a guest conductor, University, Harvard University, Lincoln Center, short fairy tale “The Nightingale,” the play was adjudicator, and clinician and has presented Queensland University of Technology at performed in both English and Mandarin for workshops across the country on her two Brisbane, the Shakespeare Theatre Association, more than nine thousand children. Ashworth is educational DVDs—Vocal Transformation Stanford University, Tulane University, and the also co-author of Arts Education and Literacies, University of Massachusetts at Boston. He has a book that is part of the Routledge Research in Literacy Series. 4 TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FACULTY served multiple years as a project director for to teaching, Dossett is the professional learning Arts in Washington, D.C.; the Chautauqua both the National Endowment for the Arts and coordinator for Drama for Schools (DFS). Institution Amphitheater in Chautauqua, the National Endowment for the Humanities. She programs and implements drama-based New York; the Music Center at Strathmore In 2006, he was honored at the White House pedagogy professional development through in North Bethesda, Maryland; and Lincoln and received the Coming Up Taller Award for DFS’s partnerships with schools, school Center in New York City. In 2005, his Penn State the Shakespeare in the Courts Program that districts, and the Austin Independent School Symphonic Wind Ensemble had the honor