2015-652-E Arts - Gravelly Hill Middle School Arts Grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID:7C75BF92-8D1F-4CCA-8FF3-53F903D1C845 The Soul Street Dance performance ties in with the K-12 dance curriculum in a variety of ways, including the concepts of movement skills in dance; choreographic principles, structures and processes to create dance; and cultural, historical and interdisciplinary connections with dance. In addition, several social studies concepts will be covered during the performance and interactive component, including an exploration of the diversity of people in the local community, the influence of cultures on communities, the visible diverse culture in local and regional communities and the significance of cultural groups. During the interactive piece after the performance, students will be able to participate in choreographing their own dances, which brings in math concepts, such as patterns, as well as problem solving. Students also learn about the human body through movement, which is part of the Science curriculum. There are 7,506 students in the elementary, middle and high schools of Orange County Schools, as well as 553 teachers. Of those, there are 3,310 elementary (1,767 male and 1,543 female), 1,736 middle (907 male and 829 female) and 2,450 high school students (1,247 male and 1,203 female), all of which live in Hillsborough and Efland. Students in elementary school are between 5 and 11 years old, middle 11 and 14 years old and high school 14-18 years old. The following is breakdown of race/ethnicity for Orange County Schools by level. Note: Since Cultural Explosion is a district-wide event, the following demographic information is representative of Orange County Schools as a whole. American Asian 1 Hispanic African- Hawaiian White Multi- Indian American Pacific Racial Elementary 7 42 744 519 } 3 1846 149 w~ Middle 6 22 372 246 0 1033 057 High 3 23 383 390 2 1586 083 16 87 1499 1155 5 4465 279 This is the sixth year Orange County Schools has sponsored Cultural Explosion, and the second time Gravelly Hills Middle has hosted the event. This is the first time, however, that the committee has opted to fund an outside performer. Funding from the Orange County Arts Commission will subsidize performer fees to bring Soul Street Dance to Cultural Explosion.