Job Overview:
- Schedule: 2 hours a week, Tuesdays 4pm – 6pm, January – June 2024
- Type: Part time, regular
- Pay: $60/hr, non-exempt
- To apply, please submit:
- a resume highlighting your work as a professional arts educator, inclusive of dance training history
- a cover letter describing your interest in being a teaching artist at Abrons Arts Center and teaching philosophy
- an original curriculum sample designed for a 3 session ballet class for elementary age students.
Job Summary:
Abrons Arts Center’s Arts Education Program is seeking a ballet teacher to join the Abrons Arts Center faculty. They will design and teach a beginner’s ballet classes on Tuesdays, 4 – 5 pm (5 – 8 year old) and 5 – 6pm (9-12 year old). Classes culminate in an end of semester performance at Abrons Arts Center.
You will be:
- Committed to Arts Center’s values of accessibility, equity, and inclusion
- Creative, confident and highly skilled at designing dance curriculum, classroom management, and committed to uplifting young people through the arts
- Motivated to provide exceptional arts projects to the Abrons Arts Center students
- Highly collaborative, with a strong ability to teach diverse young people
- Enthusiastic and interested in contemporary arts practices and arts education innovation
- Committed to meeting the program’s administrative requests, inclusive of lesson plans, evaluations, and time sheets
- Excited to continue growing your artistic practice in tandem with teaching
You will have:
- 3-5 years of teaching artist experience
- 10+ years of technical training in ballet
- 5+ years of professional dance experience
- Choreography experience
- Experience with students early childhood to 18 years old
- Strong classroom management skills
- Proficiency in social-emotional learning methods
- Robust awareness of and passion for diverse contemporary dance
- Conflict mediation and de-escalation skills
- Enthusiasm for working with young people
- Social adaptability and ability to support a range of learning styles
You will support the Abrons Arts Education Program by:
- Developing a beginners ballet curriculum that is inclusive of a range of learning styles, celebrates diversity in gender identity, expression and body
- Connecting with students to build positive relationships and sense of community and belonging
- Clearly and effectively communicating with Abrons Education staff and families about goals of curriculum
- Creating dynamic, exciting, and fun ballet dance performances for the end of the semester showcase
Essential Physical Job Functions:
- Must be New York City based and be present on-site to instruct classes
- Must have strong arts education skills and experience
- Possessing or obtaining de-escalation training
- Must be COVID-19 vaccinated
- Must be able to move throughout our 40K square foot facility that includes stairs, ramps, indoor and outdoor spaces.
About Abrons Arts Center
The Abrons Arts Center is the arts division of Henry Street Settlement. Abrons is a world-renowned institution that advocates for diverse artistic communities through educational programs, residencies, exhibitions and presentations. Each year Abrons welcomes over 35,000 people with over 20 commissioned performances, 5 gallery exhibitions, 5 artist residencies for performing and studio practitioners, and 100 different classes in dance, music, theater, and visual art. Abrons also supports New York City public schools with teaching artists, introducing more than 3,000 students to the arts. Abrons Arts Center believes in bold, visionary experimental artists and that the arts can provide a unique opportunity to build human connection, radical empathy, and understanding. Abrons values freedom of expression and creativity while striving to provide creative communities with a space that celebrates diversity of thought and experience.