2021 2022 F ine Arts Preschool “The motivating force behind my work is not only developing excellent dancers, but more importantly, developing young people who are useful, imaginative, worthwhile human beings.” VIRGINIA TANNER (1915-1979) Welcome to the Tanner Dance Program Fine Arts Preschool Your child is about to embark upon a wondrous journey. The world strengthens eye-hand and fine motor coordination skills. It gives form of fine arts provides children with infinite opportunities to discover to an idea generated in the brain, allowing students to form mental themselves and the world around them in a whole new way. The images and introducing them to spatial awareness, which can be University of Utah Tanner Dance Program Fine Arts Preschool used to problem-solve. Chemists, engineers, architects and inventors provides an environment in which your child will be guided use visual art to create models in order to bring new ideas to life. through creative exploration and become a life-long learner. The Fine Arts Preschool promotes motivated learning and celebrates As parents, you are giving your child an extraordinary gift – a multiple perspectives. The imagination is one of life’s essential key to unlock his or her imagination, cognitive development, and ingredients. With our philosophy of arts and education integration, the ability to discover themselves.The Fine Arts Preschool staff is we are preparing a child’s foundation for success on many delighted to be a part of this magical journey. levels. We are preparing a child who can perceive and enjoy a deeper sense of life’s beauty. Music, dance, drama, literature, creative writing, and visual art are elements that bridge creative intelligence with the cognitive realms of a child’s mind. By exposing a child to music, rhythm, tone, and pitch, we are heightening their sensitivity to sounds in vocabulary and phonics and building their literacy development, which strengthens their ability to socially interact and verbally express their emotions. Dance explores fine motor coordination, self-expression, self-control, physical development, working with a partner, spatial relationships, movement qualities, and mathematic introductions using note value and simple fractions. Drama promotes role- playing, verbal communication, vocabulary, numeracy skills, social interaction, cooperation, emotional intelligence, and self-confidence. Through a child’s natural curiosity, literature provides a wonderful Misha Moffat catalyst for thought provoking ideas, reasoning, recall, creative play, Misha Moffat, Director social cognition, and builds problem-solving skills. Creative writing Tanner Dance Program Fine Arts Preschool allows for reflective thinking, story sequencing and helps children understand the individuality of their own ideas. Visual art education Fine Arts Preschool Philosophy BY ANNE CANNON hildren must be challenged to use Creative Writing engages our mind in their imaginations — so not to synthesizing information from all avenues just dream dreams, but to make of learning and allows us to communicate Cthose dreams come true. those thoughts by abstract symbols others engages our sense of hearing and Music can read and interpret. the creation and/or interpretation of Dance engages our physicality. Dance sounds. These sounds, in turn, are used The opportunity to experience the arts communicates expression of oneself to express an endless variety of feelings or becomes very important as we grow so we through the desire to move and control experiences. motion. This process begins even before are trained to bring our whole being into birth. the process of living. Drama and Literature engage our emotions and allow us to express or Visual Arts engage our eyes and Miss Anne Cannon co-founded the Fine empathize with our humanness. We are Arts Preschool in 1992 as an extension of our inner vision. Our perceptions are challenged to internalize and interpret, stimulated, challenged, and broadened. the Arts for the Young Program that she evaluate, critique, and formulate and Virginia Tanner began in the 1960s. We then express our perceptions by conclusions. creating art from a variety of media. Miss Anne continues to contribute her time and talent to these programs. Misha Moffatbegan her Dancers’ Council, and the Director of the career performing with the Tanner Dance Fine Arts Preschool. Faculty Children’s Dance Theatre (CDT) in 1979. She is Kimberly Marsden earned trained in the philosophy a Bachelor of Music from of integrating dance and the University of Utah and visual arts within The Arts a Master of Music from for the Young and Dance/Art Wichita State University, Programs developed by Virginia Tanner and both emphasizing piano Anne Cannon. Misha attended the University performance. In her teenage of Utah as a recipient of the Elizabeth R. Hayes years and as a college student, scholarship in modern dance, graduating with Kimberly performed as a pianist with chamber her BFA in 1991, and returned to Tanner groups, orchestras, and as a soloist. She also Dance as a member of the faculty. Misha is enjoys composing music and has two published the Director of the Tanner Dance Fine Arts choir arrangements. Kimberly has studied the Preschool in which she celebrates over 29 years art of teaching music to young children and has of teaching the visual arts and dance to students received training in Suzuki, Music Together, from all over the valley. She served as Miss Orff, and Harmony Road. She often composes Anne Cannon’s assistant from the founding of songs for children, teaches children the basics the Fine Arts Preschool in 1992, Administrative of composition, and has directed a children’s Assistant in 1995, and became director in 1999. choir. For five years as a teacher at a K-12 She has presented at numerous professional charter school, she taught Music & Movement development workshops and conferences for to elementary-age children, which includes arts education, teaches summer art camps, and experiences with keyboard, ukulele, singing, mentors both students and teachers in bringing and drumming. Presently, besides teaching at the arts into the classroom. She has spent the the Fine Arts Preschool, Kimberly also teaches last two decades teaching and choreographing music courses for Gifted Music School in Salt for the Children’s Dance Theatre both at local, Lake City. She and her husband, David, live national, and international venues. Misha is in Bountiful, Utah. They have two grown currently the faculty co-advisor for the CDT daughters. Faculty Rebekah Richards Miss Bekah is a powerhouse of knowledge Tad Simonson began her love and we are delighted she has come full trained at the for the arts at circle to share her experiences, knowledge, Virginia Tanner a young age. and passion of the fine arts with the Fine Creative Dance She danced at Arts Preschool. Program and the University performed with of Utah Tanner Mimi Skola CDT for ten Dance studio and Silverstein has years. She received was a member of the Children’s Dance an extensive a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Theater for over nine years. Miss Bekah’s background University of Utah. She has been on the dance training includes the Virginia in performing faculty of the Virginia Tanner Creative Tanner philosophy of nurturing the whole and teaching Dance Program since 1985 teaching child, and she continues that mindset in historical and dance, working in outreach, with special all of the classes that she teaches as she contemporary dance populations, and as a member of the Fine carries out the Tanner legacy. She teaches forms. Her roots began with CDT and Arts Preschool staff. in the Fine Arts Preschool and in the her wings took her traveling across the Tanner Dance Parent and Tot program. nation with Repertory Dance Theatre. She Miss Bekah graduated from Utah Valley has taught for CDT, RDT, and in many University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts; settings from public elementary schools emphasis in drawing and painting, along to colleges. She has worked extensively with a Minor in Psychology. She has with Ann Riordan and the Work Activity assisted in the Tanner Dance summer art Center for the mentally and physically camps, and at The Children’s Center; an challenged, teaching dance and work agency specializing in child development skills. She teaches the CDT third grade, and emotional well-being. She has always as well as in the Fine Arts Preschool and loved being around children, and is for the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance thrilled that she is a part of the FAP team. Program. The Program maturity. The three classes are limited to sixteen students per class. The arts of dance, music, visual art, drama, literature, and creative writing are natural Registration and Tuition disciplines that help children grow through Applications for enrollment in the Fine Arts experience and find joyful ways to express Preschool are accepted beginning January 25, themselves. The Fine Arts Preschool curriculum 2021. Confirmations for new students will be has been developed based on this premise. Each processed and mailed starting mid-February. day students have hands-on involvement in the Children are placed on a first-come, first-served arts, a healthy snack, and the opportunity to basis. To apply, complete the application form choose activities designed to integrate learning. and submit it with a photocopy of your child’s state-issued birth certificate and a non-refundable The Fine Arts Preschool has three program $50.00 application fee. Upon acceptance, you options that meet 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at the will be sent three additional information forms: Tanner Dance Studio. Medical History, Student Release, and Parent Tuesday/Thursday 2-Day Option Volunteer. Registration is complete when the Session Dates: Tuesday, September 7, 2021- office is in receipt of these forms, as well as your Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Tuition: $2,075.00 full tuition payment or down payment based on the installment plans available.