REACH Summer Outreach Dance Program

We had an incredible week! It was inspiring to see the sharing of information that occurred in our Reach Pedagogy Intensive. What an amazing group of workshop leaders and participants (Wednesday group is pictured). Thank you, Wendy, for doing a fabulous job at https://www.instagram.com/reachdancebu/ with reels and more photos.

Here is the schedule for the Reach Pedagogy Intensive 2024! 🌟 To check out class descriptions, head to the link in our bio over on Instagram @ reachdancebu. Spots are still available for those who haven't registered!

Happy Summer! Our next staff spotlight focuses on the wonderful Judith Chaffee. We're thrilled to have Judith back at Reach this year to share her experiences as both an artist and an educator.

Judith Chaffee, AEA, and Professor Emerita at Boston University, is a dancer/mover, actor, director, choreographer; former Head of Movement for the BU School of Theatre. She is a graduate of Skidmore and Smith Colleges, holds a certificate of training from the International School of Comic Acting in Reggio-Emilia Italy, and is a RYT certified Yoga teacher. She was a choreographer /dancer/artistic director with Boston Dance Collective for over 20 years, and is trained in most forms of dance, including modern, ballet, contact improvisation, social and folk dance, and period styles. She teaches physical acting, alignment/release techniques, Commedia dell’Arte, period styles, Viewpoints, Laban, Meyerhold, Vinyasa Yoga, neutral masks, and composition/devising theatre. Judith has created work for theatre and opera in New England, and performed the role of Mother in the C.P. Taylor’s play, “Good” in Boston and NYC and created the character Rose Stanton in the movie The Inhabitants. She has two CD’s on Period Styles through Insight Media and maintains an information website on Commedia dell’Arte at www.commedia-dell-arte.com. Judith was awarded the 2011 Boston University Metcalfe Cup and Prize for excellence in teaching, and co-edited The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte with Olly Crick, published in 2014. She is a founding member of MERG(E), the Movement Educators Research Group, investigating foundations of movement training for actors.

Spots still open for Boston University's Reach Pedagogy Intensive.
Come learn with us!
Details: M-F, July 8 - 11, 9am - 2pm; additional master class 2-3:30pm.
For both experienced and new teachers who are eager to learn from our roster of dance educators, and to share and make connections with other teachers who teach in studios, public education and independent schools, in urban and suburban environments.

More information on the website.
Scholarships and paid fellowships available.

Our official mission:
“Open to pre-professional and experienced dance educators, the Reach Pedagogy Dance Intensive will include the investigation of traditional as well as transactional and transforming models of teaching, giving participants the opportunity to tap into their prior knowledge, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and explore authentic teaching and assessing strategies suited to the urban and suburban settings in which they teach.

Contact the BU dance office at 617-353-1597 or [email protected].
Director: Micki Taylor-Pinney at [email protected]
Assistant Director: Wendy O'Byrne at [email protected]

Our next Staff Spotlight is for Lindsey Leduc! We're so thankful to have Lindsey back with Reach this year. Make sure to attend her contemporary jazz masterclass! It's guaranteed to make you smile. Read below to learn more about Lindsey!

Lindsey is best known for her many years as a featured dancer with Giordano Dance Chicago. She has performed works and taught master classes nationally and internationally by Mia Michaels, Ron De Jesus, Alexander Ekman, Gus Giordano, Liz Imperio, and many others in Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Mexico, and Costa Rica among others.

Lindsey was honored to write a feature article for Dance Magazine’s “Why I Dance” in the January 2013 issue, and she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine in March 2013. She has works in the repertoire of many dance companies including her alma mater GDC who perform her work around the globe. She continues to teach, choreograph, adjudicate, produce, direct, and emcee around the nation and internationally. In addition to teaching at Boston College, she also serves on the faculty at Boston University.

Lindsey was raised in Southbridge, MA and began her early training under Terri Gordon. At 13, she became a Trustree Scholar at Wilbraham Monson Academy for her dance ability, exposing her to knowledge and cultural diversity that shaped and inspired her. Lindsey believes in the power of movement as a vehicle for connection, self-expression, and healing.

We continue our weekly staff features with Erica Schwartz! We’re excited to have Erica back again this year and to learn from her experiences. Read below to learn more about Erica! 🎉

Erica Schwartz holds a BFA from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and a MS in Education from Simmons College. Her professional career began in New York City as a company member and rehearsal assistant for the Pearl Lang Dance Company touring the USA and Italy. In Boston, she directed her own company, Erica Drew Dance Company, which was chosen for the New England Touring Roster and was awarded the Choreography Fellowship by The Artist Foundation, culminating in a performance at Jacob’s Pillow.

She has taught at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (NYC) and assisted May O’Donnell to set her piece, Suspension, on the Ailey Company. Here in Boston, she has taught at The Boston Conservatory, Harvard/Radcliffe Dance Program, Emerson College, Dean College, Boston Ballet, Lexington School of Ballet, Dancing Arts Center and Boston Public Schools. In 2012, Erica was honored the Teachers As Artist Fellowship taking her to Tel Aviv to study Gaga movement with Ohad Naharin. Erica received the 2014 Arts Learning Distinguished Educator Award in Dance. Erica continues to teach and choreograph and four of her pieces have been produced by Across the Ages Dance Project. Most recently, she was a Facilitator and Presenter at Jews and Jewishness in the Dance World Conference, Herberger Institute, Arizona State University, October 2018. In 2022 Erica received an Opportunity Fund Grant from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.

Happy Thursday! For our next staff feature, we welcome back Andy Taylor to Reach. We’re so excited for her to share her experiences as an artist and educator. Read below to learn more about Andy!

Andy Taylor-Blenis started dancing with her parents in International Folk Dance at age 0. Her early Creative Movement experiences were with Ruth Wheeler, co-founder of Dance Collective, and with Ann Brown-Allen. After receiving her BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, she came to Boston and danced with Danny Sloane Dance, Paradigm Dance, Concert Dance Company, Dance Collective, Micki Taylor-Pinney, Dawn Kramer, Miguel Lopez, Milton Myers, Julie Ince-Thompson, ACE Entertainment, and has been with Prometheus Dance Company for 19 years. She has taught International Dance through the Folk Arts Center of New England, Modern and Jazz Dance at Northwestern and Northeastern Universities, Harvard, Emerson, Boston University, Boston Conservatory and the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. Andy is the artistic director of Mladost Dance Ensemble and the RSCDS Demonstration Team and loves teaching school residencies thru Mass Movement and Revels Inc. Andy is an adoring admirer of Lynn Simonson.

For our next staff feature, we’re excited to welcome Chu Ling to Reach this year! Read below to learn more about Chu!

Chu Ling is a graduate from the Beijing Dance Academy. Ling is an accomplished performer and choreographer.

She is the recipient of numerous awards in China, Japan and USA. She received a choreography commission for closing ceremony of the First
East Asian Games in Shanghai. In 2002, Ling received the Artist-Humanist Award from the Boston Cultural Council. Ling is the founder and director of the Chu Ling Dance Academy. She has taught and performed at many institutions in the greater-Boston area, including
Wellesley College, Boston University, and Harvard University. In addition, Ling has been a recurring guest teacher and choreographer at Boston Ballet since 2001.

She is a sought-after artist for her ability to offer inclusive quality dance and movement experiences for all. Her students range from inner-city youth to the elderly in suburban settings. Ling is dedicated to cultural exchange, merging eastern and western aesthetics through dance. In 2022, Ling received Traditional Art Award from Mass Cultural Council.

It's Thursday! We continue our staff features by highlighting Billy
McLaughlin! Read below to learn more about Billy and his experiences.

William McLaughlin has performed with Ace Entertainment, Impulse Dance Company, Concert Dance Company of Boston, Prometheus Dance Theater, Marcus Schulkind and Friends, Granite State Ballet, and Boston Dance Collective. During his time with these companies, he performed works choreographed by Fred Benjamin, Donald Byrd, Allen Collier, Adrienne Hawkins, Bebe Miller, Diane Noye, Christien Polos, Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson and Randy Warshaw, to name a few. William has also appeared in, and or choreographed, live/video industrials for Trak Ski’s, Puma, Party Lite, EMC, and Dae Woo.

William is currently Dance Department Chair at Boston Arts Academy, Boston’s only high school for the performing and visual arts. In addition to Boston Arts Academy, William has served on faculty at many of Boston’s most prestigious arts institutions including; Boston Ballet, The Boston Conservatory, Concord Academy’s Summer Stages, The Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, Needham Dance Theater, and The Walnut Hill School. As a guest artist, William has both taught and choreographed throughout the greater Boston Area. He has also served as both Co-Director and Artistic Director of Boston Dance Collective’s Summer Outreach Program, now known as the Boston University REACH Program. While on faculty at Boston Arts Academy, his choreography has been chosen for performance at the National High School Dance Festival’s Gala and has been presented at The Calhoun School New York, NY, Harvard School of Education and for the Harvard Strategic Data Project. In 2011, he was invited by Boston Superintendent Carol Johnson to present his work at The Great City Schools National Convention. As a choreographer, he has produced several works including a solo performance entitled Boogie Man. In 2008, he was awarded a SURDNA Artist Fellowship, during which he returned to Jacob’s Pillow for the fourth time, participating in the Choreographer’s Lab, directed by Celeste Miller and J.R. Glover. In 2012, William was a Mass Cultural Councils 2012 Artist Fellowship
finalist.

Happy May! Reach 2024 is just two months away. To celebrate, here's another staff feature with Jessica T. Pearson. Learn more about Jessica below!

Jessica T. Pearson is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Rhode Island College. Ms. Pearson is a dancer, educator and choreographer who danced with the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Gesel Mason and Concepts In Motion, Bermuda. This sought-out educator has been invited to teach at Ballet West Summer Intensive, numerous private dance studios and taught in Bermuda for two years.

Ms. Pearson recently performed at Dixon Place and held residencies at Annapolis High School, University of Kentucky, Salve Regina University and Providence College. Her choreography has been presented at Southern Vermont Dance Festival, New England Choreographer’s Competition, The Series Vol. I – 25 Emerging Choreographers Showcase (NY) and Collective Threads (NY). Her choreography has been presented at Urbanity Next (Boston) and Utah Regional Ballet. She received her MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied dance pedagogy, dance wellness and choreography and holds a BFA from Towson University in Dance Performance.

🚨 REACH 2024 STAFF FEATURE 🚨
We're so excited to have Jason Jordan join Reach and to share his experiences as an educator. Read more about Jason below!

Jason Jordan is a teaching artist who teaches dance full time at Orchard Gardens K-8 Public School in Roxbury, where he has also been the director of dance for the BPS Summer Arts Intensive and BPS Citywide Dance Company. His professional dance career in the US and Canada began with Feld Ballets NY and encompassed dancing with Twyla Tharp, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens De Montréal and Rubberbandance Group, Cedar Lake Dance Ensemble, and Buglisi/Foreman Dance Company, where he was a principal dancer. He choreographed Stations for Vision Festival XV at the Abrons Arts Center. Locally he has performed with Fukudance and in Tony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker.

Our next staff feature is a beloved returning Reach staff member: Yo-EL Cassell! Read below to learn more about Yo-EL and his pedagogy focus!! ✨

Yo-EL Cassell was born in Schenectady, NY with a nerve deafness and discovered that movement at the age of 3 was his organic expressive channel for his personal and creative identity. Instead of his hearing loss getting in the way, he allowed the loss to gratefully show him the way of connecting to all of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) of human life. His mission, as a performer, director, choreographer, movement director, educator, mentor, and human being, is to provide the same accessible physical entry point to other’s inner selves that he supportively received as a child and throughout life.
A recipient of the Lotte Kaliski Award for Gifted Artists, Yo-EL Cassell is currently Head of/Assistant Professor of Movement at Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. He was formerly Resident Choreographer of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.

His previous teaching experience also includes the NY Acting School for Film and Television, Harvard University Dance Department, New England Conservatory, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Sunshine Cottage School For Deaf Children, Celebrity Series of Boston, Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprentice Academy, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Boston Ballet, Dance Complex, and Skidmore College, where he served as a guest teaching artist/choreographer in residence for three years.

His teaching for movement practice, through a thoughtful fusion of various movement and theatre approaches, stresses the importance of incorporating personal identity with an integration of a strong technical foundation. Thus, balancing the importance of owning, in equal measure, the ecstatic and informative self in and outside the walls of movement study.

Happy Thursday! This week's featured staff member is Carli DiMeo! Carli lectured with Reach this past summer and we're so excited to have her back for Reach 2024. Read more about Carli below! ✨

Carli DiMeo, OT, OTR, OTD (she/her/hers) is an occupational therapist and dance professional in the greater Boston area. Carli is an adjunct professor of occupational therapy at Boston University as well as a practicing mental health clinician at The Home for Little Wanderers and Newton-Wellesley Hospital. She has been teaching at studios in the area for the last 10 years and her primary teaching home is The Studio Dance Complex in Revere, Massachusetts, where she grew up dancing. Carli has studied and performed a range of styles with beloved artists including Micki-Taylor Pinney, Lindsey Leduc, Peter DiMuro, Ann Brown Allen, and Wendy O’Byrne. Carli has experience teaching movers of all ages and abilities and prioritizes creating inclusive movement environments in all of her classes. Carli is passionate about bridging the mental and physical experiences and uses her background as a dance educator in therapeutic work, supporting youth and families in learning to use their bodies to shift their emotional experience and wellbeing. Carli completed her doctoral research at The Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, piloting a dance-based caregiver-child group to facilitate emotional safety and positive relationship building between caregivers and their children following experiences of domestic violence. Carli has provided trainings and disseminated research from this program nationally and continues to facilitate this group, seeking to bring dance as a healing tool to families across a range of backgrounds. Carli has experience teaching and training other teachers to work with dancers with various diagnoses and abilities and hopes to work toward a dance community that is welcoming for every body. Carli joined the Reach Pedagogy faculty in the Summer of 2023 and is so excited to be back this year!

We continue our staff features with McKersin Previlus! We're so excited for him to join Reach and to share his experiences as an artist and educator. Read more about McKersin below!

Resilience is the word that comes up when describing McKersin. He overcame a troubled environment and upbringing in order to become the dancer, educator, and artistic director that he is today. With Ethnic-Haitian dance as his base vocabulary, McKersin started building a bigger arsenal with Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Tap. Today, he leads workshops throughout various parts of the world orientated towards social justice and the roots of African American culture and movement. McKersin is currently leading an international research project that involves the ties and spread of the African Diaspora in the western hemisphere as well as many projects throughout his community. His local projects promote emotional competency, healing, and conversation through the Arts all while running his non-profit Lakai Arts which aims to build stronger communities of color towards self-sufficiency using the arts, and Lakai Dance Theatre, a subdivision of his non-profit.

To start off our staff features...Leslie Butler Barron is back in Boston!! ✨

Leslie has played such a large role in bringing dance into the Boston Public Schools, and we're honored to have her as a guest instructor for Reach 2024! Check out her bio below!

ALSO‼️ Don't forget to submit your application by THIS MONDAY (4/1) to be considered for scholarships and fellowships.
________________________________________________________

Leslie Butler Barron has performed, choreographed and taught in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. She received her BFA in dance from the Julliard School of Music and her M. Ed from Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Conant Fellow. Here in Boston, Leslie’s early years of dance study and performance was at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. Highlights from her long list of credits include her role as a government choreographer for Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi, a dancer/singer on a weekly TV show in Cologne, Germany and her appearance on Broadway for five years as a dancer, actress and singer in the Tony Award winning show, “The Wiz”.

In 1983 she started the dance program in the Boston Public Schools, creating curriculum, choreography and costume designs for grades 9-12. During this time, she also taught dance for the Concord Metco program, bringing urban and suburban students together. Throughout her seventeen years in the BPS, she coordinated programs with Celebrity Series bringing professional dance companies into the Boston classrooms. Leslie is now retired and dance continues to be a vibrant part of her life as she studies varies dance genres.

✨ Reach Pedagogy Intensive 2024 Schedule! ✨

Don't forget to submit your application soon! Applications received by APRIL 1st will be the first considered for scholarships and paid fellowship opportunities.

Applications for the 2024 Reach Pedagogy Intensive are open!

The program is open to pre-professional and experienced dance educators. To be eligible for scholarships and fellowships, apply BEFORE APRIL 2ND! Those received after April 1st will be considered on a rolling basis.

Schedule of workshops and classes will be posted by March 4.

Program Dates:
July 8-12, 9am-2pm
Optional masterclasses, 2-3:30pm

To find out more and apply, visit:
https://www.bu.edu/fitrec/what-we-offer/dance/reach/application/
(Also linked in our bio)

Big changes afoot, folks! The Reach final report (BU's Summer REACH Summer Outreach Dance Program) is done and found at https://www.bu.edu/fitrec/what-we-offer/dance/reach/.

This was the last year of our beloved Reach company and tour BUT we are rebuilding our Reach Pedagogy Intensive to continue with one of the principal goals of the program: outreach. The one-week only program is meant to be affordable AND there are scholarships and paid pre-professional fellowships available for those working in urban settings and those starting their careers as teachers. Reach alumni, we have YOU in mind!. We hope alumni and colleagues will consider participation in the Pedagogy Intensive.

Check out the report, where you will find a summary of this summer's program, information about the impact we made over this summer during the Pedagogy Intensive and Reach program, and our plans for the future.

The Reach Pedagogy Intensive, initiated in 2022, will now be our focus, open to pre-professional and experienced teachers, alike, transforming their personal knowledge into teaching strategies suited to the settings in which they teach. Our focus will be on those dance educators who deliver an art experience to schools and studios, in urban and suburban settings, preparing them to effectively engage with culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

I am really excited about this new development, and of course, sad that after 33 years, the company and tour will no longer exist. Applications will be available by end of January with the schedule by beginning of March. Save the date: July 8 - 12, 2024.

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! 🍁🦃

We hope you all enjoy some time off this week and that you can spend some time with your loved ones. At Reach, we're so thankful we're able to come together, create art, and share it with our communities!

Tomorrow is our first day of tour! We're so proud of all the efforts of our company members and hope you can catch our performance in ONE WEEK! Read below for more information:

Our Reach 2023 Outdoor Dance Performance is Wednesday, August 2nd from 7-8pm!!✨
We will be in the same location as last year: 766 Commonwealth Avenue; a parking lot on BU campus. Bring a lawn chair!

Come see us perform contemporary, hip hop, step, jazz, tap, breaking and more, choreographed by our very own professionals, interns and teen apprentices!! Spread the word!

ONE MORE WEEK until Reach!

Unless we'll see you for our Pedagogy Workshop this Wednesday, rest up and enjoy your holiday! We can't wait to dance with you all! ☀️

pc: Ziyu

As June comes to an end and we welcome in July, let's get excited for Reach!!

Enjoy your weekend and rest up for a jam-packed program of dance!

pc:

There's only two weeks left until REACH 2023!

Get to know some more of the Reach staff: here's another Staff Highlight with one of our returning staff interns, Alan Kuang!

Alan Kuang is a senior at Boston University pursuing a BFA in acting and a dance minor. Breaking and doing Hip-Hop for over 9 years, Alan is a crew member of the legendary Floorlords Crew. Throughout his dance career, he has pursued a diverse range of styles from contemporary and jazz to storytelling movement. Alan has performed, choreographed, competed, and taught professionally at John Hancock Hall, The Competitive Breaking League, various local schools, including Boston University, Northeastern University, and Boston Latin School, Chelsea’s Apollinaire Theatre, and his favorite, REACH 2022. Alan hopes to become a successful actor, rapper, and dancer. He thanks his mom and grandma for their unconditional love in pushing him towards and supporting his dreams.

pc: Ziyu

Get excited! Aerial silks is coming back to Reach! 🪩

Staff interns Liz & Erin having fun during our post-tour masterclasses!

There are less than three weeks until the start of REACH 2023! ✨

Our Reach company is coming together with a talented group of 14 teen apprentices and college interns, along with our dedicated faculty and guest artists! To celebrate, here’s a Staff Highlight of one of our professionals, Izaiah Lawton!

Izaiah was a Reach teen apprentice in 2018 and college intern in 2022. Izaiah found his passion for dance when he was in the 1st grade while taking dance and musical theater as extra curriculums. He is always open to learn new styles of dance while still perfecting his craft in his roots of Step and Hip-Hop. Izaiah has performed on stages such as the Paramount Theater, Northeastern Step Fest, and has participated in competitions such as Beantown Bounce and Bring Da Hype Dance Competition. He also performed with Wendy O’Byrne’s company, Contemporarily Out of Order. He is teaching Hip Hop for children and teens for BU’s Dance Program, Urbanity, and in Boston Public Schools for Mass Movement, Inc. He also dances with the company Be Hear. World and HypeFem, an LGBTQ dance team. He is pursuing a degree in education with a focus on history.

Your energy and talent are unmatched! We’re so excited to be dancing with Izaiah again this year!

pc: Ziyu

Hello all. If you know anyone looking for a fun summer dance camp for ages 8 - 11...BU Dance and Family Programs have 3 two-week dance programs for campers, ages 8 - 11, of all dance levels who want to learn in a fun and supportive environment. Campers will hone their technical dance skills, work with our counselors and instructors to create original choreography, and improve their performance skills for the culminating dance concert on the final day. Campers will have daily classes in Ballet, Contemporary/Modern, Stretch, Jazz, and/or Hip Hop. Our program includes classes with guest artists in other styles of dance, such as, aerial, swing, and Making Dances (composition).
Recreational swim is offered daily with other fun activities including gym time, games, one class per session on the climbing wall, and costume projects. Weather permitting, lunch will be eaten outside each day. Drop off begins at 8:30am for 9am start; camp ends at 4pm. Extended day is optional.
Family and friends are invited to the informal performance on the final day of each session in the BU Dance Theater.
Fees are $$1240 - $1450. [email protected] or [email protected] for more info. 617-353-2748
https://www.bu.edu/fitrec/family-programs/camp-terrier/

⚠️Let's BeReal⚠️ We're so excited for Reach 2023!

We love the Reach family and we're looking forward to welcoming some new members!

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! We have a Dance Arts counselor position here at BU, part of Camp Terrier. It is a 6 week gig working with ages 8-12, teaching, making and facilitating their choreography. It starts June 26. Check out the post at https://www.bu.edu/fitrec/about/employment/
Love to have some Reach alum in the position...or their friends.

Employment ‹ Fitness & Recreation Center ‹ Boston University Work with us. Exciting job opportunities exist for Boston University students within the Department of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (PERD). We’re looking for enthusiastic, responsible, and customer service–oriented students to fill a variety of positions. Join us in one of BU’s most ...

Today we are featuring one of our amazing returning staff interns, Liz Roman!! We are so excited to have Liz back with Reach for a second summer in a row!!💜
Liz is working toward her degree in Dance Performance and Choreography with a minor in Anthropology at Spelman College in Georgia. As a member of Spelman Dance Theatre, she has performed and taught class for the group. Growing up in Cambridge, MA, she was a member of the Modern Dance Company at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School for three years performing, choreographing, and teaching class as dance captain of the company. Liz has also performed and participated in hip hop competitions and showcases in the Cambridge area. As the co-chair of the Cambridge Youth Council from 2018-2020, she worked as an advocate and leader to address issues that impact students.
✨Read more about our interns and staff on our website! And follow the link below to dance with Liz this summer: https://www.bu.edu/fitrec/dance/reach/application/

Reach applications are due this Sunday, April 2nd at 11am!! Apply here: https://www.bu.edu/fitrec/dance/reach/application/

Flashback to the Reach 2022 Pedagogy Intensive with one of our guest artists, Adrienne Hawkins, teaching a class on Anatomical Soundness! Swipe to see some of our other guest artists who taught a pedagogy masterclass including Judith Chaffee, Liz Ronka, Margot Parsons, Micki Taylor-Pinney, Sean Bjerke and Yo-El Cassell!!
This year we are once again offering a free, Three-Day Pedagogy Intensive from July 5-7 where you can learn about the best teaching practices when working with children or adults, lesson planning, and effective motivational tools. It is the perfect way to prepare for our performance/workshop tour around Boston during the 4 week program!

✨Teens can participate in just the 4 week Reach program, or add the Pedagogy Intensive as well! Reach alumni are eligible to participate in only the Pedagogy Intensive by writing to [email protected]

Program Dates:
4 week program
July 10-July 26 and July 27-August 4
*Needs-based scholarships available
Optional 3 day Pedagogy Intensive:
July 5-7
*Free
For more Reach fun, follow us on instagram