September 15, 2018 – Keith Terry
October 20, 2018 – Maribeth Yoder-White
February 2, 2019 – Richard Lawton
March 23, 2019 – Chapter Sharing
All workshops begin at 9:00am.
Location — E.B. Scripps Elementary.
Walk-in fees for non-members apply.
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Keith Terry
September 15, 2018
(9:00am – 1:30pm)
“Body Music”
As a “Body Musician,” Keith Terry uses the oldest musical instrument in the world — the human body (his own) — as the basis for exploring, blending and bending traditional and contemporary rhythmic, percussive and movement possibilities. In this very active workshop, Keith shares with music educators how he bridges the gap between music and dance and cultivates interdisciplinary, intercultural and interdepartmental artistic relationships. Keith shares how he expands his students’ abilities to hear and execute complex rhythms through Body Music and related rhythmic studies, how he gets students to connect with their inner choreographers and composers, how he encourages intercultural collaboration, and how Body Music can facilitate the creation of multi-disciplinary performance. A collaborator by nature, Keith worked to cultivate the connections between World Arts and Cultures and the Departments of Theater, Music and Ethnomusicology and others.
Keith Terry is a percussionist/rhythm-dancer/educator whose artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. As a soloist he has appeared in such settings as Lincoln Center, Bumbershoot, NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PRI’s The World, the Vienna International Dance Festival, and the Paradiso van Slag World Drum Festival in Amsterdam. His groups (Corposonic, Slammin All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Crosspulse Duo with Evie Ladin, Professor Terry’s Circus Band Extraordinaire, and Body Tjak with I Wayan Dibia) have performed in a variety of venues including Joe’s Pub, WNYC, and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC); Grand Performances, LACMA Jazz, the Roxy, and the Skirball Center (LA); SFJazz, Vancouver Island MusicFest, Woodford Festival in Australia, and the Bali Arts Festival. In addition, Keith has performed with a wide range of artists including Charles “Honi” Coles, Turtle Island Quartet, Bill Irwin, Jovino Santos Neto, Barbatuques, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Kenny Endo, Freddie Hubbard, Tex Williams, Robin Williams, and Bobby McFerrin. As a producer he has created 5 CDs and 4 DVDs for Crosspulse Media. Keith Terry is the founding Artistic Director of the International Body Music Festival (IBMF). Launched in 2008, this annual festival explores the language of body music from culture to culture and has been produced in the US, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia and France. In 2010 Keith directed and performed in IBMF’s “Americas” concert for the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival in New York. Keith is a Guggenheim Fellow and an Asian Cultural Council Fellow, as well as the Founding Director of Crosspulse, a 38 year-old, Oakland, CA – based, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and performance of rhythm-based intercultural music and dance. For more info see: http://www.crosspulse.com/
Maribeth Yoder-White
October 20, 2018
(9:00am – 1:30pm)
“From Point A to B: It’s All About Process”
While music teachers differ in pedagogical approach, materials, and instructional strategies, we share a common goal of adding value to children’s lives through the vehicle of music. Our current National Music Standards suggest we enrich children’s lives by cultivating music literacy through creating, performing, and responding. Certainly these artistic processes are deeply embedded in the Orff-Schulwerk approach. While we may share common goals, one of the defining features of the Orff-Schulwerk approach separating us from “traditional” music instruction is process, the steps by which we lead children to experience and understand music. Through active learning, children imitate, explore, and create music, thereby developing music literacy and skills. This workshop is designed to allow participants to experience and reflect on varied approaches to process and to consider the application of various strategies in their respective classrooms. Come prepared to sing, dance, play, and create in community as together we experiment with ideas and learn with playfulness, freedom, and joy!
Dr. Yoder-White is a certified Orff-Schulwerk specialist and frequently presents workshops featuring her compositions and arrangements. She teaches Orff-Schulwerk certification courses at Appalachian State University and Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia, and serves as clinician and author for Silver Burdett Making Music and Silver Burdett Interactive Music. Additionally, Yoder-White maintains active participation in music education research and has presented papers and authored articles in international, national, regional, and state arenas. She was a presenter at the Spokane (2010) and Pittsburgh (2011) National American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) Conferences and has presented workshops to AOSA chapters in Washington, Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, and Hawaii. She served as keynote presenter at the 2003 and 2005 Hawaii Music Educators Association Conferences in Honolulu and traveled to Thailand and Hong Kong in 2004 to present at the East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (EARCOS) Conference. Yoder-White frequently works in international schools in Asia, teaching demonstration lessons and leading professional development workshops for teachers.
Richard Lawton
February 2, 2019
(9:00am – 1:30pm)
“Getting Your Orff Groove On”
The groove — it is that wonderful spot where musicians of all skill levels meet to exchange ideas, give and witness testimony, or just hang out and make merry. It is also, Orff teachers know, the spot where the most successful instruction takes place.
This workshop will showcase a variety of student-tested strategies designed to spark creativity and to get kids blissfully improvising and collaborating in what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls “a state of flow.” Bring your soprano recorder and/or your ukulele. And get ready to get down!
Richard Lawton is the K-5 general music teacher at Roscomare Road Elementary School in Los Angeles. Richard received his M. Mus. and Orff Levels Certification from California State University, Los Angeles. He is an American Center for Elementary Music and Movement Spotlight Award Winner (Summer 2016) and the 2018 CMEA/Peripole General Music Teacher of the Year. Richard is an American Orff Schulwerk Association certified recorder instructor, a member of the Orff Echo and General Music Today editorial boards, and a past presenter at numerous state and national conferences, including the 2015 and 2017 AOSA National Conferences.
Chapter Sharing
March 23, 2019
(9:00am – 3:30pm)
“Make It, Take It, Share It”
“Make It, Take It, Share It” will be a 6-hour workshop (9:00a-3:30p*) devoted to successful classroom activities from talented peers within our chapter. The morning will open with mixers, songs, and games and then will move to activities utilizing makeable props/manipulatives for quick implementation in your classroom. The final portion of the day will focus on literature using books, manipulatives, games, songs, and dances to systematically take us through the Schulwerk process. *We will provide a paid lunch option for the day.
Please note: While the workshop materials are designed to be used by those who work with children, SDAOSA workshops are for ADULTS ONLY. Our liability insurance does not allow us to have children at these workshops.
