Arts Integration Specialist
Artist Statement
I believe that the Arts are powerful enough to cause transformation, and that Dance is empowering enough to move hearts, minds, and bodies — and to revolutionize learning.
Biography
Kimberli Boyd — Dancer, Choreographer, Performing Artist, Master Teaching Artist, Educational Consultant, Arts Integration Specialist, Certified Yoga Teacher and Therapist, RYT-500
Kimberli believes,“art is powerful – dance is empowering…” and has toured the nation extensively, facilitating workshops that use movement/creative dance as a means of exploring creativity, enhancing self-care, empowering positive self image, supporting workplace wellness, community/corporate team building, activism, and much more.
Kimberli’s original body of work, “Reaching the Kinesthetic Learner though Movement and Creative Dance, is a dynamic and highly effective approach that enhances any learning environment from Early Childhood through High School and beyond.
Programs
Reaching the Kinesthetic Learner through Movement & Creative Dance
This body of integrates elements and principles of dance, movement improvisation and choreography to facilitate a hands on/bodies in learning experience across a variety of content areas.
Titile and topics include:
Busy Bodies, Busy Brains: Supporting Early Childhood Learning through Movement, Story, Song and Chant
Dance Counts! Math Moves!
Fractions in Action
Transforming Geometry
Moving through Science
Moving to Harlem: Studying the Great Migration
Invisible Tracks: Studying the Underground Railroad
Write to Dance
Moving Free Verse Poetry, Metaphor and Simile
Responding to Visual Art through Movement & Creative Dance
Testimonials
I would recommend these classes (Write to Dance; Dance Counts, Math Moves) to others kids because it stretches your body and your mind.
– Dawn H./5th Grade/Summer Program, Wayne County Community College District (Detroit, MI)
It’s one thing to read a description of what a workshop with Kimberli is; it’s a totally different experience to witness how easily she gathers a room full of strangers and gets them to physically interact and engage each other! Reminds us all what it means to have minds from pre K -12 to mold into their future! Having this body of work at my disposal, I can now share and empower my students in every area of our curriculum!
– A.B. Johnson, Certified Business Coach, Arts Integration Conference ( Las Vagas, NV)
Kimberli is an outstanding artist and educator who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to schools. Her background as a dancer and choreographer coupled with her deep knowledge of how students learn best is remarkable. This knowledge comes from years of experience with students of all ages as well as her Professional Certificate in Learning and the Brain from Hope College Midwest Brain and Learning Institute and her graduation from the Beaumont School of Yoga Therapy, RYT 500. She is articulate and able to adapt lessons to all grade levels from PreK- grade 12. Her authentic voice resonates with all students and they are eager to engage in all she brings to the table. I have had the privilege of seeing her work over the past 30 years at the John F. Kennedy Center training teachers, working with teaching artists and helping to design seminars as well as working alongside her at the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, and hiring her to work in the Baltimore City Public Schools. In every encounter Kimberli has brought thoughtful knowledge, organized lesson planning and joy to all. A truly remarkable person and educator.
– Lenore Blank Kelner, Lenore Blank Kelner and Company (Silver Spring, MD)
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