Marienne Kreitlow - Teaching Rostered Artist

Music and Performing Arts
Teaching Experience Grades 5-12

I find joy in creating a safe, stimulating environment where students can develop their writing and performing skills as each discovers their own unique and potent voice.  Fortifying creative abilities brings students a sense of adventure and achievement, and helps them to experience each other at a deeper level.  It builds community.

Here are some of the ways I like to explore and nurture creativity:

• I believe in drawing from our rich cultural heritage both as Americans and world citizens to deepen our understanding of each other and to discover what makes art relevant, powerful and enduring. 
• I believe in fostering a culture where art is not about competition, winning, or being famous. I picture a world where song, story, theatre, poetry and dance are normal, natural occurrences and everyone participates.
  

“Creative Combustion” (1 - 3 day residency) Through a process of vocal and physical warmups and imagination exercises students generate new ideas to express in different and converging forms such as soundscapes, poems, chants, songs, dances and stories.  As boundaries fall away between spoken/sung language or poetry/dance students discover new abilities as state standards in both music and language arts are effectively met.    

“Folk Songs & Folk Tales: Then and Now” (4 day residency)
As they learn the key elements of story telling students will be given opportunities to create and tell their own stories in a variety of mediums.  Community members may be invited into the classroom and through a guided interview process share stories which in turn may trigger a new creation for the student or class. 

All projects can be adapted to fit the needs of the class and goals and preferences of the teachers. 

Contact information:

Phone: 320-543-3394
Email: marienne@marienne.com
Website: www.marienne.com