Education
Matthew Westerby Company is involved and invested in education through dance. The Company is experienced in work with a wide variety of ages and communities, and seeks to inspire and promote dance, creativity and self-expression for all.
The Company can provide a highly experienced team of teaching artists to meet the needs of all ages and levels of experience, offering performance, workshops, lecture demonstrations and residency programs.
Matthew Westerby Company is thrilled to now offer an educational performance program titled Insights, a 45-minute program featuring dance created especially for this program as well as excerpts of Company repertory. The program is designed primarily for K-12 audiences and includes audience interaction and dialogue - all designed to introduce students of all ages to different forms of dance and choreography.
Project Poetry Live! 2011 in rehearsal
Photo: Mandy Chan
Matthew Westerby Company is thrilled to have led the hugely successful Project Poetry Live! for the past three seasons, in partnership with Litchfield Performing Arts, Connecticut. The project takes MWC and its ten dynamic teaching artists to teach over 1,100 seventh grade students in five school districts in Connecticut. The Company creates performance work for this talented group of students, performed in collaboration with live music especially composed for the project. The Company is looking forward to leading the project for a fourth time in the fall of 2012. The project will culminate in performances in mid-November 2012, at Naugatuck Valley Community College, in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Project Poetry Live! 2011 in rehearsal
Photo: Mandy Chan