Every year, Arts Are Basic collaborates and works with more than 100 K-8 grade students and teachers in 17 rural schools in Cherry County. In 2003, the discipline studied was dance and the theme for the project was migration. Using regional and family history as the academic link, Rhea Gill, AAB Education Coordinator and Dance Teaching Artist, worked with students and teachers to depict their families’ migration to the Sandhills. The culmination of the project involved four dancers from Gill’s Pure Movement Dance Studio performing Sandhills Suite, specifi cally choreographed by Gill for the people of Cherry County. The photo graph above was taken on the O’Kief Ranch, northeast of Valentine, Neb. Photo courtesy of Arts Are Basic.
Alumni Magazine Summer 2004
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