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Matt and Emily Kent bring the vocabulary, physicality and choreography of the Storeography assembly performance right into the classroom where students will continue to solidify their understanding of the elements of stories as they discover their own unique and idiosyncratic styles of expressive movement. Elementary school students will focus on weight-sharing and balance exercises, collaborative choreography, improvisation and play. In middle school, the emphasis shifts to body awareness, building a positive self-image and learning to express one’s own opinion and respecting the contributions of others. By high school, students are ready to tackle intermediate to advanced dance partnering techniques and experiment with the choreographic process.

Pickleshoes

PickleShoes is grounded in collaboration and partnering.

With over a decade of teaching and performing with Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Matt and Emily Kent, Artistic Directors of PickleShoes, have designed and taught workshops for preschool through college students, professional dancers, and corporate groups.

PickleShoes has created new works for family symphonic experiences such as "Peter and the Wolf" and "Babar: the Story of the Little Elephant". 

PickleShoes has toured internationally and performed repeatedly at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall as part of the Center's Great Performers Series.  The company has choreographed for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Music DVD Songs in the Key of Life.