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Can high school students inspire political and social change? Based on the headlines, the answer is probably \u201cyes.\u201d Can high school students do it with the instruments of dance, theater, and visual art? University of Rochester students in the Program of Dance and Movement<\/a> are working with local high schools to answer that question.<\/p>\n

University students taking a course on \u201cthe art of dance, change and community practice\u201d\u2014part of community-engaged scholarship at Rochester\u2014have been learning how to lead dialogue around community building and through the creative process of art and movement. \u201cThey learn how to facilitate and how to go into a community and listen,\u201d says Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, senior lecturer and instructor of the course. \u201cThey learn to encourage or empower the high school students to use their voice without bringing their own ideas into the discussion or to colonize the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the course of the semester, the student facilitators met regularly with students from five area schools, including from the Rochester City School District, Aquinas Institute, and Brockport High School. The discussions focused on the assets and struggles of each community and \u201cwhat they wanted to see change, but also what they love about their communities,\u201d says Beauchamp.<\/p>\n

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Rose Pasquarello Beachamp, center, senior lecturer in the Program of Dance and Movement, leads students in socially engaged dance and movement techniques.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe learned a framework that helps us create movement and art activities to address specific topics,\u201d says Hannah Dick \u201919, a dual degree student who is pursuing a bachelor of science in brain and cognitive sciences in the College as well as a degree in percussion performance at the Eastman School of Music. Dick visualizes a future working in music within the community, either as a performer or teacher. \u201cIt\u2019s been a fantastic learning experience to do<\/em>, rather than just talk about community arts engagement,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\"Community<\/a>Each student facilitator was responsible for implementing the discussion in their assigned location.\u00a0 \u201cIt hasn\u2019t always been easy. Every high school is different. Some students aren\u2019t always willing to talk about things,\u201d Beauchamp says.<\/p>\n

About 90 students from the participating high schools gathered together on the River Campus for a day to connect and collaborate as part of the process. Beauchamp and her students coordinated activities that included games to get to know one other. \u201cThe idea is that we bring the high school students together from different communities, so they spend time talking about the assets and struggles from each community,\u201d says Beauchamp. The students broke up into groups in which some created visual art, some constructed movement choirs, and others engaged in theater techniques\u2014all as a way to talk about social and political change.\u00a0 \u201cIt was very different from other types of dance styles,\u201d says Kelsey Wegman, a senior at Aquinas Institute. Wegman, who aspires to study dance, thought portraying struggles through dance movements was \u201cpretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The results of their work on that day will be presented as an exhibition of art work and performance set to begin at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12<\/a>, at the Memorial Art Gallery. The event is funded as part of the community-engaged learning grant from the Rochester Center for Community Leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best part of the experience for me has been to see how inspiring they can be when given a safe space where they can share,\u201d says Sibel Spahija \u201918. This marks the first dance class that Spahija, a finance major, has taken at Rochester. \u201cWe tell them many times that they have the opportunity to have their voice heard and can make a difference,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was impressed by the enthusiasm and focus of the high school groups,\u201d says Dick. \u201cI hope this project prompts change in the community, because that was our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aquinas high school student Kalista Miller ’20, center. (University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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