HAVING GREAT RESPECT AND COMPASSION FOR THE GRUELING NUTCRACKER SEASON C2EC GENERALLY PAUSES FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER AND RECONVENE IN JANUARY! HERE ARE A FEW ARTICLES TO READ OVER THE BREAK: Can Ballet Become Anti-Racist? ~ Theresa Ruth Howard Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new guard brings diversity center stage ~ Marcie Sillman New Deloitte Study… Continue reading NUTCRACKER PAUSE
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Corps de Ballet Module 9: Balanchine and Blackness: Integrating the Shadow History of Ballet
Corps de Ballet Module 9: Balanchine and Blackness: Integrating the Shadow History of Ballet Most of us are familiar with Balanchine’s original vision of the New York City Ballet as an integrated company with ‘4 white girls, 4 white boys, about sixteen years old, and 8 of the same Negroes.’ However, we also know that… Continue reading Corps de Ballet Module 9: Balanchine and Blackness: Integrating the Shadow History of Ballet
Re-centering Blackness – Examining Colorism
Re-centering Blackness- Examining Colorism If we are truly dedicated to dismantling racism in the world, and more specifically in our field, we have to understand the nature of the beast. A key strength of this mercurial animal is its high adaptability, which gives it such longevity. It has the ability to shift, morph, grow back… Continue reading Re-centering Blackness – Examining Colorism
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Corp de Ballet: MID YEAR REVIEW
MID YEAR REVIEW (CATCH UP) Module 1: Organizational Identity, Branding & You Developing Philosophy of IDEA and Cultural Competence Module 2: Learning Through Design: How Project Based Learning Supports the Integration of IDEA & CC Module 3: A New Way to Look at Strategic Plans Module 4: Collaborative Covenant of Communication & Cultural Competence Module… Continue reading Corp de Ballet: MID YEAR REVIEW
C2EC Corp de Ballet Module 5: Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Corp de Ballet Module 5: Psychological Safety in the Workplace It is time to begin to stack the information that we have been working with so far this year. The goal is to create a blueprint for your organization to crosscheck the work that you have been doing both in the IDEA space but… Continue reading C2EC Corp de Ballet Module 5: Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Corps de Ballet Module 4: Collaborative Covenant of Communication & Cultural Competence
Corps de Ballet Module 4: Collaborative Covenant of Communication & Cultural Competence Last year we touched on this topic last year. I would like for us to begin to think about the ways in which we can actively, begin a process to create and enter a process to design a Collaborative Covenant of Communication within… Continue reading Corps de Ballet Module 4: Collaborative Covenant of Communication & Cultural Competence
C2EC Corps de Ballet Module 3: A New Way to Look at Strategic Plans
Corps de Ballet Module 3: A New Way to Look at Strategic Plans If mission, vision, and values are the Holy Trinity of the work of IDEA then the strategic plan could be seen as a book in the Bible. It is the obligatory organizational document required by the Board of Directors and funders alike… Continue reading C2EC Corps de Ballet Module 3: A New Way to Look at Strategic Plans
Corps De Ballet Module 2: Learning Through Design: How Project Based Learning Supports the Integration of IDEA & CC
This year in the C2EC Corps de Ballet is striving to move us towards embodiment. This means that we have a solid foundation IDEA and CC: theoretically, intellectually, and personally. We have more clarity on where were as individuals and employees (regardless of role) fit into the matrix of the work within out respective organizations… Continue reading Corps De Ballet Module 2: Learning Through Design: How Project Based Learning Supports the Integration of IDEA & CC
Corps de Ballet (23): Module 1: Organizational IDENTITY, Branding & Your Developing Philosophy of IDEA and Cultural Competence.
What you will find in this module of your toolkit Module video Organizational identity Exercise tool Additional perspectives on subject matter Reflection questions We are using a tool that will be familiar to you. It is a modified version of the Identity Bubble exercise. Organizational identity is just as complex and mercurial as personal identity.… Continue reading Corps de Ballet (23): Module 1: Organizational IDENTITY, Branding & Your Developing Philosophy of IDEA and Cultural Competence.