greene grants
2003 Greene Grant awarded to:
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Using the Arts to Ignite the Mind…
In September 2003, The Maxine Greene Foundation, Inc. awarded a Greene Grant to a leading dance institution of unparalleled global acclaim, Dance Theatre of Harlem for the development of the Arthur Mitchell Academy Charter School. DTH’s mission is based on three fundamental principles: Education, Social Awareness, and Artistic Excellence. Arthur Mitchell’s dream of providing an arts-based college preparatory charter school has transformed into:
- Dance Theatre of Harlem School and the Dancing Through Barriers® (DTB) arts-in-education outreach program, includes the development of a new standards-based arts-in-education K-12 curriculum structured around the NYC Department of Education’s new Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Art.
- DTH’s signature work, "Firebird", is the thematic base of the curriculum, which easily lends itself to integration with history and social studies; tells the inspirational story of fictional heroes and heroines; and touches upon themes of self-worth and personal integrity.
- The new K-12 curriculum also builds upon current outreach programming and integrates DTH dance technique, institutional history, and concepts of health and wellness into the study of academic disciplines.
"I realized that I was in service to a force greater than myself, and that was my art form, dance."
-Arthur Mitchell
"To be enabled to activate the imagination is to discover not only possibility, but to find the gaps, the empty spaces that require filling as we move from the is to the might be, to the should be. To release the imagination too is to release the power of empathy, to become more present to those around, perhaps to care."