The NDI DREAM Project Teaching Artist Training will give you a hands-on, empowering introduction to NDI’s teaching techniques and philosophy for working with children with disabilities using dance and live music to engage every child. We will spend the mornings actively observing the NDI DREAM Project, which will include a group of children with a wide range of developmental disabilities and their age-matched peers, all between the ages of 6 and 18. In the afternoons, we will put the techniques into practice. You will emerge from this advanced training with new strategies to ensure equitable inclusion and maximize participation for all dancers; tools to effectively differentiate instruction and highlight and develop the abilities of every dancer in an ensemble; techniques for crafting choreography and performances of artistic excellence; connections to the larger field of disability and the arts; and experience collaborating with non-arts professionals to serve and support the learning, achievement, and joy of every child.