NDI DREAM Project Teacher Training, Aug 2023

NDI DREAM Project Teacher Training Application

August 12th - August 15th, 2025
The NDI DREAM Project Teaching Artist Training will give you a hands-on, empowering introduction to NDI's teaching techniques and philosophy for working with children with disabilities using dance and live music to engage every child. We will spend the mornings actively observing the NDI DREAM Project, which will include a group of children with a wide range of developmental disabilities and their age-matched peers, all between the ages of 6 and 18. In the afternoons, we will put the techniques into practice. You will emerge from this advanced training with new strategies to ensure equitable inclusion and maximize participation for all dancers; tools to effectively differentiate instruction and highlight and develop the abilities of every dancer in an ensemble; techniques for crafting choreography and performances of artistic excellence; connections to the larger field of disability and the arts; and experience collaborating with non-arts professionals to serve and support the learning, achievement, and joy of every child.

The NDI DREAM Project Training will be led by NDI Artistic Director Kay Gayner, Board Certified Pediatric Physical Therapist Agnes McConlogue Ferro, and a team of NDI teaching artists and administrators.

All of our work will take place at the National Dance Institute Center for Learning & the Arts in Central Harlem and will culminate in a performance for families and the larger community at the end of the week.

Applications are due on Aug 4, 2025 and are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Tiered pricing $650-$750 scholarships available

When: August 12 - August 15, 2025 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM ET

Where: National Dance Institute | 217 West 147th Street, New York, NY 10039

Contact: Sofia Baeta | (212) 226-0083 | sbaeta@nationaldance.org
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Teaching Artist Training Disclaimer

The NDI Collaborative for Teaching & Learning is an introduction to the NDI Method. NDI hopes participants have a positive experience and make good use of the techniques learned in this program. The NDI Collaborative for Teaching & Learning is not a certification program. Participation in our training program does not qualify you as an NDI teacher, nor does it allow you to train others in the NDI Method. Unless you are an employee of an ANDI (Associates of NDI) organization, this training program does not give you the right to use NDI's name, logo, or program language in connection with any program that you conduct. After successful completion of this program, you may cite that you have trained in the National Dance Institute methodology. When appropriate, NDI works with individual Teaching Artists and their communities to help them further their training and begin NDI Associate programs. NDI determines the type, length, and cost of such training on a case-by-case basis.
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NDI Agreement of Release & Waiver of Liability

1. Those named above will be participating in NDI's DREAM Project Teacher Training. I am fully aware of and accept the physical risks and hazards involved.

2. I represent and warrant that I have no medical conditions or injury that would prevent my safe participation in the program.

3. In consideration of being permitted to participate in NDI's DREAM Project Teacher Training, I agree to assume full responsibility for any risks, injuries or damage, which those named below might incur.

4. In further consideration of being permitted to participate in NDI's DREAM Project Teacher Training, I waive any claim I may have or acquire against National Dance Institute.

5. I, my heirs or legal representatives forever release, waive, discharge and covenant not to sue National Dance Institute.

6. I understand that I am personally responsible for the repair and/or replacement of any equipment or property I (or those under my supervision) damage, or destroy, while a guest of the National Dance Institute.

7. National Dance Institute is not responsible in any way for my own personal property.

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COVID-19 Disclaimer

National Dance Institute (“NDI”) has implemented measures for the health and safety of our employees, students, visitors, renters, guests and to prevent and mitigate the presence of COVID-19 at the NDI Center in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and public health guidance. While at our facility you are required to follow all COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

Note: Our training/workshops are subject to change in response to COVID-19 restrictions and limitations.
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