Local resources to utilize

Crews Center for Entrepreneurship - Mike Hoffmeyer, director - https://www.memphis.edu/crews/ :: crewscenter@memphis.edu or call Lisa Threadgill, program coordinator at 901.678.1597

Arts Entrepreneurship Certificate - https://www.memphis.edu/ccfa/artsentrepreneurship/artsentrepreneurship.php

Career Services - https://www.memphis.edu/careerservices/

Crosstown Arts - Jenny Davis, Music Department Manager - jenny@crosstownarts.org - phone: 901.507.8015

Make Music Day - a world-wide initiative that typically occurs on the summer solstice depending on local organizers. If there isn’t a local organizer, YOU CAN BE THAT PERSON/PEOPLE https://www.makemusicday.org/about/north-america/

Mid-South Flute Society - http://www.midsouthflute.org

Tennessee Percussive Arts Society - https://www.facebook.com/groups/PASTN/?ref=pages_profile_groups_tab&source_id=71713159625

Young Audiences Arts for Learning - https://www.youngaudiences.org/network - While there is no Tennessee affiliate for Young Audiences or Arts for Learning, there is still a need for young audience art programming in schools. YOU CAN BE THAT PERSON/ENSEMBLE/ORGANIZATION. If you end up moving away,

You Are Your Instrument: Performance Workshop for Vocalists - Wednesday, Jan 26 3:30-5:00

Yogic breathing - we did a shortened Sun Salutation concentrating on connecting breath to body, keeping both body and breath moving

Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros - “Using any vowel sound, sing a tone you hear in your imagination. After contributing your tone, listen for someone else’s tone and tune to its pitch as exactly as possible. Continue by alternating between singing a tone of your own and tuning to the tone of another voice. Introduce new tones at will and tune to as many different voices as are present. Sing warmly.” This exercise got our voices working in a tuneful manner while opening our ears to all the possibilities available to us in the room.

Gesture Telephone - we took a ball of energy, defined and shaped it, then passed it around the circle. This helped bring our creativity from the inside to the outside, connected us with folks on either side of us, made something out of an abstract concept. We also incorporated our voices in unconventional ways to help describe the object we saw in our imaginations.

North, South, East, West - Beginning in quartets shaped in a diamond and all facing one direction, we began as a simple follow-the-leader exercise. As the leader turned the diamond around, they handed off the role to the person most in front as that person simultaneously and seamlessly took over. As the game progressed, we experienced new ways of interacting within the ensemble as well as other quartets, giving & taking leadership, working as an ensemble as well as a soloist at times.

Stage Presence 101 - Thursday, Jan 27 3:30-4:30

Basic action abstraction - Extend your right hand forward. Now as if you’re meeting someone you haven’t seen in years. How did this new subtext change the gesture. Now as if you’re keeping something from falling off a counter. What was different this time? Subtext and internal dialogue drastically changes how we present ourselves and how others observe us.

Alphabet

Streets of New York

Gesture Telephone

The Games: Dance and Theatre Activities for Interdisciplinary Music Education - Friday, Jan 28 9:45-11:15

Alphabet

Ways of Walking/Soundscape

Crazy Conductor

Fruit Basket

North, South, East, West

Music Machines

Connecting the Dots: Collaboration and Ensemble Building Workshop - Friday, Jan 28 5:00-7:00

Grouping Game

North, South, East, West

Business Generation Incubator

Practical Business Knowledge