CEO/Detroit Center Events 2009/2010
In its continuing effort to advance U-M’s commitment to educational outreach and collaboration among higher education, K-12 schools, and communities, in the 2009/2010 academic year, the CEO will host a series of events for middle and high school principals, teachers and students at the U-M Detroit Center.
This series will provide unique educational, professional development and networking opportunities.
Programs include:
Keith Terry and His Slammin’ All-Body Band
The CEO, in conjunction with the Arts on Earth program, is proud to present Keith Terry and his Slammin’ All-Body Band, performers who make varied and innovative music with their bodies alone. Audiences worldwide have found this ebullient, highly physical form of art-making irresistible.
Keith Terry is this nation’s pre-eminent practitioner, ethnographer, and theorist of “body music.” Also known as body percussion and body drumming, “body music” is the ancient art of making music and dance with your body as your only instrument – making it the most democratic of arts.
Traditional body music ranges from Inuit vocal games to Balinese kecak (or monkey) chant and dance, from Flamenco Palmas to Sumatran Saman and Ethiopian armpit music. Gumboot dancing was developed in the gold mines of South Africa by enslaved workers who were forbidden to speak. African-American Hambone was developed by slaves in American when their owners confiscated their drums.
Today, this joyful, democratic art form demonstrates profound connections among humans creating with only their bodies in vastly different cultural, historical, and political contexts.
Keith Terry and his Body Slammin’ Band will provide creative workshops and on campus performances for middle school students and teachers. Terry, along with two additional teaching artists and his Slammin’ All-Body Band will show students and teachers how to use body music in the classroom for learning and teaching. These workshops and performances will consist of body music history, development, and movements.
Three opportunities will be offered to middle schools. They include:
Tuesday, November 3: Detroit Center Day
The Detroit Center Day will involve a short performance by Keith Terry and company, followed by two separate workshops, one for teachers and one for students. The workshops will run concurrently and include discussion/Q & A.
Friday, November 6, 11AM: Hill Auditorium Youth Performance
Terry and his Slammin’ All-Body Band will perform for public school students in the region at Hill Auditorium on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus.
Saturday, November 7, 7PM: Detroit YMCA Youth Performance
Terry and his Slammin’ All-Body Band will perform a family concert at the Downtown Detroit, at the Boll Family YMCA.
Middle schools interested in participating in any of these opportunities should contact :
Helki Jackson, Outreach Coordinator
Center for Educational Outreach
(734) 763-6207 or jacksonh@umich.edu
Space is limited. Reservations will be accepted in the order they are received.
CEO Luncheons/Dialogues for School Principals
The CEO will host luncheons for small groups of school principals that will provide a unique opportunity for dialogue with the CEO and others on ways to collaborate to increase opportunities and resources for students that promote academic excellence and access to higher education.
Luncheons are by invitation only.