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Trio Track

Trio Track provides participants a daily multidisciplinary experience in three distinct arts areas. Each day Trio Track participants will attend pre-designated classes in music, theatre and dance, and visual art. Participants will attend the same core class in each content area for the entire week, allowing complete immersion in one topic for each arts discipline. In addition to the Trio Track sessions, all participants attend performances, musings, interludes, and special events, with plenty of time built in for networking and reflection.

Tennessee Arts Academy 2023 Trio Track Core Classes
Elementary/Lower Middle Trio Track
Focus Areas: Arts Integration, Creative Drama, and Movement
Arts Integration, Creative Drama, and Movement is the focus area for the K – 6 elementary/lower middle theatre sessions. Each day participants will take classes in three areas of study that are especially designed for classroom generalist teachers, librarians, special education, physical education and gifted teachers. Arts Integration will help facilitate the learning process in traditional subject areas. Creative drama will focus on improvisational and non-performance aspects of theatre. A final daily class in movement and dance will be offered. All elementary theatre participants will attend all three classes.

Daily Core Classes

Every day, participants will attend each of the classes listed below.
Music
Theatre/Arts Integration
Visual Art
: Trio Track
Celebrating the Seasons
Instructor:
Rob Amchin
To everything, there is a season—a time to sing, a time to dance, a time to improvise, a time to play. Participants in these sessions will celebrate the calendar year by exploring engaging materials that will offer child-centered models for creating, interpreting, moving, and performing in the music classroom. This journey through the year will be accomplished by singing, playing, dancing, actively listening, and incorporating integrated arts ideas to celebrate the four seasons. Each day of the Academy will offer a different seasonal journey, culminating with a children’s story that celebrates them all. Get ready to have fun making music and dancing together!
Music
Theatre/Arts Integration
Visual Art
: Trio Track
The Heart of Arts Integration: Bringing Creativity to the Center of Your Classroom
Instructor:
Penelope Caywood
In this session, participants will explore how a variety of art-full experiences can spark the passionate pursuit of meaning in the classroom. Caywood will share her very best ideas, handouts, actions, and tools that develop children’s creativity, foster collaboration, and inspire joy in the classroom.
Music
Theatre/Arts Integration
Visual Art
: Trio Track
Embodied Learning: Engaging with Story and History through Drama
Instructor:
Sindy Castro
Active learning through theatre games, movement, and improvisation allows students to engage directly with the language arts and social studies curricula. Through play and imagination, students are able to make personal connections to characters, stories, and historical content. Through modeling and embodied learning, participants will take away strategies, activities, and mini lessons that will bring drama strategies into the elementary school classroom.
Music
Theatre/Arts Integration
Visual Art
: Trio Track
Abstraction, Representation, and Memory
Instructor:
Donna Woodley
This painting workshop will challenge arts educators to make an abstract painting from a still life model and then make a representational painting using only the abstract painting as reference. The objectives of the lesson are to examine shape, match color, consider composition, and explore how the mind translates information based on what it remembers. The reference artist for this session is Pablo Picasso.
Please check back regularly for updates and information about the 2022 Tennessee Arts Academy.
Upper Middle/Secondary Trio Track
The upper middle/secondary theatre sessions (7 – 12) include unique sessions each year in at least three of the following areas: acting, directing, improvisation, criticism, movement, playwriting and technical theatre. Instructors from around the country provide stimulating class sessions that reflect a mix of stage and performance techniques coupled with current trends and the latest research in arts education.

Daily Core Classes

Every day, participants will attend each of the classes listed below.
Visual Art
: Trio Track
What’s the Point?
Instructor:
Donna Woodley
This workshop will engage arts educators in making a work of art using paint, markers, or color pencils in the style of pointillism. There will be a selection of photos printed for reference along with some specific instructions, including the use of primary colors only. This lesson is something that can be taught to people of all ages. The objective of this course is to examine the optical illusion of color, and the reference artist is Yayoi Kusama.
Music
: Trio Track
Teaching Music through Composition with Technology: Lessons That Work
Instructor:
Barbara Freedman
Teaching music through composition allows students a chance to create what they love, learn music in an applied environment, and reinforce twenty-first-century skills. The sessions will present the basics of using a digital audio workstation like GarageBand or Soundtrap while demonstrating best practices for teaching with technology. Participants will explore the creation of music in any genre, including a variety of contemporary popular music styles. Teachers will leave with lessons that can be used with any sequencing program, whether on a Chromebook, Mac, iPad, or PC, and will have a good place to start teaching, especially to students with little or no background in music.
Theatre
: Trio Track
Act Before You Think! Unleashing the Power of Individuality Through Practical Aesthetics
Instructor:
Tyson Kaup
In this workshop participants will explore practical aesthetics. This brass tacks and comprehensive acting technique employs a simple four-step process in order to mine the essential action of a scene and unleash the power of the actor’s personal self-expression while serving the intentions of the playwright in refreshing and surprising ways.
Please check back regularly for updates and information about the 2023 Tennessee Arts Academy.
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