Pamela Dharamsey Lee, director, choreographer, singer, and visual artist, has been developing her own integrated arts pedagogy since 1992 through her company Ox + Dragon. She has been teaching in a variety of settings and studios on both coasts, helping children to access their own creative synthesis, and learn to work as an ensemble. On Bainbridge Island she has worked in schools and studios through Arts and Humanities Bainbridge, BIMA, Bainbridge Ballet, Bainbridge Performing Arts and the Olympic Performance Group. Lee is also the creator of The Island School series “Paved with Gold” in collaboration with teachers Betsy Carroll and Mike Derzon. Most recently she directed “Artifact Pattern” in collaboration with Janet Knox and Awkward Grace.
oxdragon.lee@gmail.com
Bainbridge Island, WA 98061
Here Ntombekaya takes a sound journey which leads her on a discovery of the wonderful world around her. After getting lost, she finds her way home by remembering the sounds that she had followed. In this class, students will dance, sing a Xhosa Lullaby, and create puppets of Ntombekaya and a soundscape of her journey.
Pamela Lee
oxdragon.lee@gmail.com
Large room clear of desks
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EALR 1.1 Creates and experiences artworks and/or performances in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts using arts concepts and vocabulary.
EALR 3.2 Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose. Creates and/or performs an artwork to communicate for a given purpose in dance, music, theatre and visual arts.
EALR 3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices. Shares and demonstrates how individual and personal aesthetic criteria are reflected in artworks and/or performances in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.