Target Distance Learning Program

With the touch of just a few buttons, the equipment is ready and able to connect with classrooms around the world.  Experience real time interactions where classrooms and teachers can collaborate, inspire, and learn without boundaries!

Students anxiously await the class ahead as the teaching artist explains their art form.  And in no time at all students are up on their feet and moving, exploring the material presented to them.  Students can see and hear the artists, and also interact with them, asking questions along the way.  The Cowles Center has been doing virtual field trips for over 8 years, and whatever the subject matter, the medium through which class is taught is DANCE!

Dance Styles Offered:

• African Dance and Music
• African Based Modern
• Jazz Dance
• Hip Hop
• An Intro to Ballet
• Creative Movement
• Flamenco:  The Music & Dance of Spain
• Hip Hop:  Breaking
• Modern Dance: Introduction to Janczewski Style
• Swing Dancing and the Dance Marathons
• Choreography
• Journey to India
• Argentine Tango
• Salsa
• Latin Social Dances
• Mexican Hat Dance
• Capoeira
• Animate American History
• Your Ticket to the World
• Dance Halls Days
• Dances and the Roaring Twenties
• Native American Dance
• Middle Eastern Dance
• Belly Dance
• Original Composition:  Opus #1

Programs Offered:

• Single Course Session: affords teachers and students exposure to an art form to meet specific goals (out-of-state schools only)

• 3-day or 5-day Sessions: connects students multiple times with an instructor to develop a deeper relationship to both the artist and the art form being presented

• 15-day Residences: teaches students the fundamentals of creating new work in dance or music; these are in depth intensive course
offerings given over the course of several weeks

Free Sessions for Minnesota Schools *
Thanks to our generous funders, we are able to offer a limited number of sessions free of charge to Minnesota schools.  If you are interested in exploring free sessions for the 2012/2013 school year, contact Jessi Fett at jfett@thecowlescenter.org. * A limited number of classes are free each year.  To ensure you incur no cost please schedule early.

Looking to enrich your curriculum this year?  
Visit the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaborations (www.cilc.org) and browse our courses under Content Providers. For more information, contact Laura Bohne at lbohne@thecowlescenter.org or call 612.206.3641

Click here for a downloadable PDF of our 2012/13 School Offerings

We would like to extend a special thank you to our 2011/12 Target Distance Learning Program Sponsors:

Target, Ford Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board,Best Buy, General Mills Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Additional support provided by:

Ameriprise Financial & the Susan I Marvin Fund of the Minnesota Community Fund