Fun Summer Facts from Lincoln Center Institute

September, 01 2010

We hope you enjoyed your summer—we sure did here at the Institute! If we got to see each other during the last couple of months then you will already know how busy, exciting, and special this summer has been. To recap all the activity, we thought we would share a few memorable moments with you:

• Having tallied our stats from the 2010 Summer Season, we can announce that approximately 1,200 attendees participated in our professional development workshops. Teachers, staff developers, college professors, librarians, principals, superintendents, arts administrators, and teaching artists came from 35 different states, 8 countries, and 2 U.S. territories; that includes Austria, Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. "The workshop, the LCI philosophy, and community-guiding activities renewed and reinforced my love for teaching. I feel privileged to be a part of it [LCI]," says Laurie Blackstone, a New York City educator from TASS MS301. (For more info on the summer, watch a video clip of ABC's in-depth coverage in News: LCI & Beyond.)

• In a partnership with the Lincoln Center Festival, participants enjoyed a workshop that included a performance of Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray, choreographed by Bill T. Jones, performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. This school year we will feature another Bill T. Jones work exploring the theme of Abraham Lincoln's presidency, titled Serenade/The Proposition.

• Farnsworth Art Museum of Rockland, Maine, celebrated its recently launched alliance with LCI by holding two public events this July. The Farnsworth, one of the premier art centers in the country, and home of the celebrated Wyeth Center, became one of our new hosts for the Lincoln Center Institute International Educator Workshop.

• After experiencing the Lincoln Center Institute International Educator Workshop (InEW) Introductory and Advanced workshops in California and four of LCI's online courses, Tanya Magnan, a teacher from Beausejour in the rural Canadian province of Manitoba, hoped to further connect with LCI. She wished to bring the LCI imaginative teaching and learning methodology into her school system—and so, LCI offered a consultancy in her district in August. After attending the workshop, Karen Robinson tells us: "It wasn't just the learning that was so impressive, but also the environment that LCI skillfully created. They created a comfort level that insired us to take risks in our thinking and sharing of ideas. We truly immersed ourselves in the learning process."

• Finally, if you enjoyed the Lincoln Center Out of Doors programs on August 15, you saw a performance of Motor, by LCI's teaching artist Brian Brooks and his company. The dancer and choreographer has been with us since 1999 and his work Rapid Still will be part of our upcoming repertory.

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