Jessica Runge has several years of experience teaching dance to elementary-school, high-school, and university level students; street youth and other special needs youth; adult beginners; and professional dance artists. She has taught for ten years as a guest artist for the Toronto, London, Upper-Grand and Ottawa-Carleton Boards of Education, and is currently on the Ontario Arts Council Artists in Education Roster.

HIGHLIGHTS

Salem Elementary School performs at Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (May 2007)
In May 2007, The Twenty-three-sided Shape delighted audiences at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival Youth Moves series. This carefully orchestrated geometrical gambol takes its shapes and movements as well as its charismatic energy from the inventiveness of the cast. Created by Jessica Runge for and with the grade 3/4 students of Salem School in Elora as part of a week-long residency held in the fall of 2007. Funded by the Ontario Arts Council. See responses.

St. Margaret's Catholic Elementary School in Toronto (January 2006)
To view student and teacher responses to the week of classes Jessica led, click here.

Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto (December 2004)
As part of an Artists in Education project, sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council, Jessica taught dance to students in grades 9 - 13 at Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto.

Crescent Town Public School, Toronto, Ontario (May 2004).
To view student work, click here.

Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts, London, Ontario (April 2004 and May 2004).
Click here for more details about Jessica's dance class.
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