Character Creation + Dance Program Summer 2022

Character Creation + Dance Program

This summer, Art Buddies is excited to offer a new spin on our traditional Character Creation program. Art Buddies will pair with Zenon dance school of Minneapolis to lead a progressive creative program culminating in a community performance. Each child will be paired with a dedicated creative mentor volunteer to create a customized character and costume based on their likes, culture, community, and a problem that they wish to solve. The program will also feature a dance component with instructor Kendall Edstrom from the renowned Zenon Dance School. Each dance portion of the program is designed to develop confidence, explore creatively, and build movement skills in a fun and nurturing environment. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome! This will give us the opportunity to incorporate another form of art into our summer program - dance and movement, utilizing multiple learning styles.

• In-person, outdoor program

• Connect with your buddy for 1 hour every week for a period of 7 weeks

• Create a character and costume using our huge collection of art supplies

• Participate in dance portion of class with Zenon Dance Instructor

• Celebrate your creation & participate in a costume presentation, dance performance, and professional photoshoot

• Work with students in 1st - 8th grade

• Outdoor program

• Locations:

  • Patrick Henry High School (Minneapolis)

    • June 21st - August 2nd

    • Tuesdays 3 - 5 pm

About Kendall:

Kendall Edstrom (she/they) is a movement artist and educator from Minneapolis, Minnesota –Mni Sota Makoce. She attended Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and went on to attain a BFA from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2019. After graduating, they lived in Brussels, Belgium and studied at Charleroi Danse and TicTac Arts Centre. They currently work as a special education support professional and teach dance classes at Midwest Youth Dance Theater. At the moment she is most interested in using her body to run, wiggle, play, and tune in to the quiet details around her.

About Zenon Dance School:

Discover dance through composition and creative movement!  We seek to build confidence in movement for students of all levels of experience through dance. Using games, telling movement stories, and exploring dance technique we will fill our compositional tool boxes to create dance work and develop skills each week.