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Issue 24 • December 10, 2015

The Arts are Basic to the Human Experience . We have never discovered a culture on this planet—past or present that doesn’t have music, art,

and dance.

1. The arts play an important role in

human development, enhancing the growth of cognitive, emotional

and psychomotor pathways.

2. Schools have an obligation to expose

children to the arts at the earliest possible

time and to consider the arts as a fundamental—

not an optional—curriculum area.

3. Learning the arts provides a higher quality of human

experience throughout a person’s lifetime.

Why Teach the Arts?

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Professional puppeteer Lisa Leibering was in residence at Weber State University. During the days Lisa and Tamara Goldbogen were able to conduct workshops at both Wasatch Elementary School (Ogden School District) and Valley Elementary School (Weber School District) reaching over a hundred young people in 2nd through 6th grades.

In the evenings Lisa and Tamara worked with an ensemble of dancers at Weber State University to create an original puppet piece titled, "The Yellow Ball Project" -- a devised work-in-progress that explores the relationship between movement and form – human, inanimate, and puppet. This is a brief 7-minute piece that follows the adventures of a yellow ball brought to life by an ensemble of three dancers. The hope is that this is the first step in creating a longer piece that could tour to elementary schools in the future.

THE YELLOW BALL

PROJECT

Uintah Elementary School

First Grade

Mother Goose Summer Camp

Emerson Elementary School

Second Grade Reader’s Theatre

Under the direction of BTSALP Drama Specialist Leah Sharitt