Check out Franchesska dancing to the wonderful music of Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi.
Music Song title: Zirwere from the Africa Fete ’99 Various Artists World 1999.
We hope to create more dances and West African stories for you along the way.
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Students work in a highly collaborative environment, building lasting connections to reading, music, fellow classmates, and the world.
We challenge students to think critically and connect the themes of a book to themselves, to other texts, and to real world problems.
Students collaborate in the songwriting process, applying their connections and conversations to generate a song inspired by the book.
Taking their collaborative work to the next level, students create artwork and a professional recording of their song using 21st century skills and technology.
STYLE works with every single class inside your elementary school during scheduled library time. Every class will create a song inspired by a book read in class.
We will take your students on a journey from finding inspiration in a book, to writing and recording a song with professional musicians and producers.
Create a sports anthem inspired by the Native American story of the Thunderbird.
This program focuses on the creation of a movie that is built by your students. They will write, produce, act, and edit their way through the creation of a full short movie.
Join Franchesska Berry in discussing Dance, Movement and Storytelling through her West African culture.
Your students will journey through the songwriting and recording process inspired by a book taught by Teaching Artists from all over the country through 3 Days of video lessons. The final 2 days of the session will be with STYLE’s Songwriting and production team in the classroom.
Do you want something special for your school surrounding Music, Books, Dance, Sound FX or more. Let us know! We’ll work to do what is best for your school.
We’ll come to your school and put on a music/reading oriented assembly. Educational and fun!