Wolf Trap Education Wolf Trap sets the stage for a lifetime of learning through the arts with a wide range of programs for people of all ages.
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The Culkin School brings the excitement, grace, and fast stepping rhythm of Irish dance to the stage.
Not familiar with the Bendjo, the Singing Bowl, or the Strawmbone?
Get your groove on! Join Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Kofi Dennis for 5 weeks of hands-on experience with the djembe, one of the most prominent West African drumming traditions. Learn basic and intermediate techniques, rhythmic patterns, and phrases in a comfortable group setting. Participants will also delve into the history of the djembe in West Africa and the role it plays in the region’s rich musical traditions and cultures. Class members can bring their own djembe or borrow one from the instructor.
Artsplay is an integrated performing arts program for young children. The classes provide holistic early childhood music, drama, and movement experiences aimed at supporting children’s intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. Artsplay classes are modeled after Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts classroom residencies. Each class is taught by a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist and an early childhood specialist.
Ever wanted to know more about jazz but didn’t know where to start? In this 5-part series, Wolf Trap Jazz Trio bassist and renowned music educator Michael Bowie will guide you through back alley blues, smoky clubs of the jazz age, swingin’ syncopations, bebop, and more. Through discussion, listening examples, live performance, and videos, participants will learn how to listen to the music, who its major players are, and why it’s considered the purest expression of American democracy. Before you know it, you’ll consider yourself a hip cat.
Wolf Trap Intitute for Early Learning Through the Arts
The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts provides innovative arts-based teaching strategies and services to early childhood teachers, caregivers, parents, and their children.
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Center for Education at Wolf Trap
The Center for Education at Wolf Trap is a resource for children, parents, educators, and performing artists.
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Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
The Institute provides arts-in-education services for children ages 3 through 5 and their teachers and families through the disciplines of drama, music, and movement.
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