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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title: </span><strong>Teaching Artist(Theatre/Dance)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">1-3 Hour Sessions at various locations</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Salary: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">$50 Per Hour</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reports To: Managers</span></p>
<p><strong>Mission</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Foluké Cultural Arts Center (FCAC or Foluké Arts) is committed to building self-esteem, discipline and a drive for excellence among at-risk children and youth through music, dance, drama and arts education; providing professional performance opportunities for program participants, and enhancing an appreciation for cultural an ethnic diversity. Foluke Cultural Arts help children develop critical life skills such as commitment, follow-through, and teamwork. </span></p>
<p><strong>Overview</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foluké Cultural Arts Teaching Artists play the role of building self-worth through art with the youth. This flexible position includes after-school teaching at Friendly Inn or one of our school partnerships dependent on your schedule and the slots available. The Saturday classes will be broken into morning sessions that include individual art disciplines while the afternoon include interprofessional collaboration between two or more similar art areas. Each semester the teaching artist and managers must collaboratively decide on a showcase for the youth. The staff must bring incites about what the youth would like to do. </span></p>
Curriculum & Responsibilities differ dependent on site. Curriculum is approached collaboratively to encourage maximum creativity. <br />
<p><strong>General Responsibilities</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Responsibilities include but are not limited to: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Implement curriculum specific to the students </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build rapport with youth and assess their needs</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with youth </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to build consensus and relationships among staff, artists, and contractors.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with the team on the development of new productions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provide updates during staff meetings. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arrive 10 minutes before class for preparation</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theatre</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teach the basics of performance utilizing the actor's toolbox</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use theatre games to start off the day</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">End the day with a debrief to go over what the students learned</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The youth should be able to</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Give a small monologue </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrate stage crew capabilities</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dance</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teach the basics of a specific dance area</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stretch and check in at the beginning of class</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The youth should be able to</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Execute at least two routines</span></li>
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Call, Text, or Email for more information. <br /><br /><a href="mailto:Nicole@folukearts.org">Nicole@folukearts.org</a><br />216-432-3772
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<p>Nicole Hatcher</p>
<p>Operations Manager<br /><br /><br /></p>
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