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Teaching Artivist Application 23-24

Red Clay Dance Company is excited to request applications for Teaching Artivists to join our Education Department. Our Search is for dance artists who combine high skill with innovative execution to provide quality educational experiences to our program participants. This role is a unique opportunity to join a trendsetting, culturally relevant, socially transforming, elite dance organization in the Chicagoland area. "We envision an Artivist as one who utilizes their artistic genius to become part of the solution for social change. Creatively using the body and movement as tools to gain personal and collective freedom!" 

This position works within our Community Engagement, Education, Partnership (CEEP) Programs.

School Residency Programs - In-School or After School dance instruction in public and private K-12 schools. 

Community Partnerships - Group dance instruction offered at non-school-based partnerships. 

All program types will require the flexibility to provide instruction in-person and/or via remote learning. 

Please note that this form does not autosave so you are encouraged to gather all required information prior to beginning the application. All submissions are final.

Making the Artivist

An artistic apprenticeshps program designed to train participants in social justice art-making. The project-based learning model uses the mediums of movement and storytelling to create a space where the social justice art-making process is identified and practiced. The program is offered onsite at Red Clay Dance Company's Studios.  


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Program Interest

Based on the program descriptions above please select all the programs that you are interested in teaching with Red Clay Dance Company.
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Pre-Interview Questions







Please share an idea of the make up of your teaching and artistic practices. Example Primary Practice - Performance (estimated focus 60%) Secondary Practice - Teaching (estimated focus 40%)

Availability

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Professional Skill Set

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Please list any techniques you teach not included in the previous questions.

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Document Submission

Please submit the following documents for the Education Department Team to review prior to your interview. Without the required documents we will not be able to move forward with the application process.



Please provide a sample lesson plan for a class you teach.

If there is a password for the link you provide please share that along with the video link.

Citizenship and Affirmation

All contractors, whether performing with the company or teaching within our Education department must be fully vaccinated prior to executing a contract and/or attending their first day of teaching and/or rehearsal. In general, people are considered fully vaccinated: • 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or • 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine If you don’t meet these requirements, regardless of your age, you are NOT fully vaccinated. I hereby affirm that I am fully COVID-19 Vaccinated.
I hereby affirm that my answers to questions on the application are true and correct and that I have not knowingly withheld any fact or circumstances that would, if disclosed, affect my application unfavorably. I understand that any false information submitted in this application is cause for denial of this application or termination of any contractual services regardless of when or how discovered and that my service is subject to government regulations and Red Clay Dance Company's review and acceptance of fingerprint record and proof of minimum age.