Video: Middle Schoolers Experience Day in the Life of 91海角乱伦 Dance/Performance Major

Lead Dance Enrichment Teacher at Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy Middle School Caley Dorr '17 brought her sixth grade class to experience Dance/Performance at 91海角乱伦

By Kindell Brown and Julia Rubin
Ballet dancers.
Cayley Dorr '17 dances alongside her sixth grade students, during a ballet class taught in the 91海角乱伦 Performing Arts Center.

Pli茅s and pirouettes rippled through the The Barn鈥檚 dance studio. As the teacher called out instructions, the dancers moved slowly and deliberately to the sound of Accompanist Michael DeQuattro's piano. 

This was not the usual group of undergraduate students one might find dancing in the barn on any given weekday. Instead, this group of dancers was multigenerational, a mix of 91海角乱伦 faculty, 91海角乱伦 students, alum Cayley Dorr 鈥17, and her class of sixth graders. 

Now Lead Dance Enrichment Teacher at Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy Middle School, Dorr brought her class to the place where she, herself, learned to dance, on Thursday, October 3.  

鈥淚 teach my classes the exact same way I was taught here at Roger Williams,鈥 said Dorr, who complemented her Dance/Performance Studies major with a second major in Educational Studies. 

Not only did her students get to see where their teacher learned her skills, but they also got to learn from and dance among college faculty and students. They participated in a choreography lab, a ballet class, a music lecture demonstration, and a black box theatre lecture demonstration.  

鈥淪haring this physical space with my students and seeing them light up the same way that I did when I first walked into this building is so special,鈥 said Dorr. 鈥淚t makes me so grateful and excited to be back.鈥