{"163801":{"#nid":"163801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leadership Students Collaborate with Resident Artist","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students participating in the new Grand Challenges program recently had the unique opportunity to engage in collaborative learning with Georgia Tech resident artist, choreographer Se\u00e1n Curran. Curran, a graduate and guest faculty member of New York University\u0027s Tisch School of the Arts and original member of the Off-Broadway percussion extravaganza \u003Cem\u003EStomp\u003C\/em\u003E, challenged the students in exercises of rhythm and dance technique. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough \u003Cem\u003EARTech\u003C\/em\u003E, the Georgia Tech Office of the Arts\u2019 artist residency program, professional performing artists are engaged each year in extended residencies on the Georgia Tech campus that emphasize a particular exploration of the arts and science or technology.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; This year\u2019s \u003Cem\u003EARTech\u003C\/em\u003E resident artists, Curran and chamber music ensemble ETHEL, have begun to explore architecture and non-traditional performance spaces with students from the Georgia Tech College of Architecture. Both artists visited the campus in early October 2012 to conduct lectures, master classes and performances.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile in residence, Curran and associate artistic director Elizabeth Coker Giron conducted a dance movement workshop for students from the Grand Challenges Living Learning Community, a new program of the Division of Student Affairs that addresses\u0026nbsp;the need for students to develop skills not taught in traditional classes at Tech by focusing on the large challenges facing society. The program offers a living-learning community for 110 exceptional freshman students to learn leadership, team-building and analytical skills in a unique, multidisciplinary learning lab.\u0026nbsp;Held onstage at the Ferst Center for the Arts, the workshop presented 40 students with a movement-based approach to collaboration and leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As our students work together in teams this year, they are learning to communicate and express themselves using a variety of techniques, \u201c says the program\u2019s Assistant Director Kari White. \u201cThis workshop allowed them to do that in an unexpected way - through movement and choreography. The ARTech residency program is a fantastic opportunity for Georgia Tech students to work with professional artists to gain a new perspective to explore learning.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudent participant J.R. Robertson jumped at the chance to approach collaboration in a new way explaining, \u201cSe\u00e1n Curran opened our minds to the creative arts and allowed us to express our passion in music in a manner unfamiliar to us all. It stretched our left brain aptitude, which sometimes gets neglected as an engineering student.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EARTech residency activities resume in spring 2013 when Curran and ETHEL return to campus. For more information on the artists, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students participating in the new Grand Challenges program recently had the unique opportunity to engage in collaborative learning with Georgia Tech resident artist, choreographer Se\u00e1n Curran."}],"uid":"27652","created_gmt":"2012-10-19 14:13:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:02","author":"Jenna Farmer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"163791":{"id":"163791","type":"image","title":"Curran workshop","body":null,"created":"1449178920","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:00","changed":"1475894799","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:39","alt":"Curran workshop","file":{"fid":"195485","name":"13c8413-p1-021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13c8413-p1-021_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13c8413-p1-021_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3442016,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/13c8413-p1-021_1.jpg?itok=fENWPBy5"}}},"media_ids":["163791"],"groups":[{"id":"52945","name":"Ferst Center for the Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12613","name":"ARTech"},{"id":"3798","name":"arts"},{"id":"340","name":"collaboration"},{"id":"4251","name":"dance"},{"id":"27471","name":"grand challenges"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"3751","name":"residency"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJenna Farmer \u003Cbr \/\u003EMarketing Specialist \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center Presents\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of the Arts at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 385-4219 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jenna.farmer@arts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejenna.farmer@arts.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jenna.farmer@arts.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}