Students at New Mexico School for the Arts are getting the opportunity to “move it” this semester!
Adam McKinney, who runs the Dance Department at NMSA – a statewide public high school offering academic and mastery arts education – has collaborated with community instructors in dance & martial arts to offer a weekly dance lesson. From 8:15am until 9:00am each Wednesday, students, faculty, and staff can head to NMSA’s gymnasium, known as the Large Rehearsal Hall, for forty-five minutes of dance and movement.
Titled “I Like to Move It, Move It”, the series of classes is an initiative McKinney hopes will motivate the NMSA community to start the day with a dose of physical and collaborative activity.
McKinney says, “Our weekly session gives the NMSA community access to a fun, collaborative way to get moving and to get energized in the morning, while simultaneously providing opportunities for non-dance students to break out of their respective arts disciplines and cross creative boundaries. ‘I Like to Move It, Move It’ celebrates a variety of forms of movement, dance and martial arts, including Hip Hop Dance, Salsa Rueda dance and Capoeira!”
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