SPOTLIGHT ON RDASC ARTS INSTRUCTORS
Every semester, we are happy to offer your students quality arts instruction by a member of our team of professional artists. In addition to building their own curriculum, addressing the academic and literacy needs of participants through the arts, and collaborating with staff on improving the all-round experience of RDASC kids, the RDASC artists teach students to use arts as self-expression. They give real meaning to our mission of improving the quality of life in our community, not to mention a space for our students to have a whole lot of fun!
That said, we very proudly present to you...
This is Liz T
enuto’s first year as a Resident Artist with RDASC. Liz grew up dancing and continued to study improvisation and modern dance at UC Santa Barbara and in Granada, Spain. Since arriving in San Francisco, she has had the pleasure of working with Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Scott Wells and Dancers and Laura Arrington Dance and also teaches creative movement and world dance through Performing Arts Workshop. Liz's classes are process-based with an emphasis on improvisation and student choreography. By using imagery, physical theater and world music, Liz encourages RDASC students to move freely while guiding them into the theme of the day.Claudia Dudley, poet
and storyteller, has been with RDASC since 1994. She began school-day teaching in 1990, through California Poets in the Schools, and was poet-in-residence at Cabrillo Elementary School for many years. She uses world myth cycles to inspire "the big picture" in students, while in poetry-making encouraging them to believe (as she does) that "imagination is power." She's set RDASC poetry to music and had it performed, has published a volume and a chapbook of poems, and is at work bringing forth a a new volume with accompanying songs for soprano and piano.Susan Appe
has been a resident artist with RDASC since 2005, and has been teaching music to kids for ten years. From a musical family, she plays many string instruments, drums from all over the world and loves to sing. Her curriculum is a very rich mixture of music exploration, drumming, homemade instruments, movement, games, 'green music', literacy, singing, song-writing and tons of laughing. Susan is a certified Orff and Music Together teacher. She currently sings with the rock opera "Exit Sign" and drums with the women's taiko drumming troupe "Taiko Sister". Susan recorded a CD for children called "moon+pie" which can be heard on her website: web.mac.com/susanappe.Michele Menard is
a working artist with experience and education in theater arts, puppetry/masks, musical performance, creative writing, illustration and visual art and crafts. Her expansive inspiration for cultural exchange and understanding has led her abroad to study music/theater and puppetry in Eastern Europe in 2008. Her classes explore interdisciplinary studies that touch upon storytelling, clowning, theater arts/mime, puppetry , stage craft and creative writing. She is an accordion player, a beginner in washboard and spoons and an aspiring vocalist in world music.
