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About Dimensional Dance

Dimensional Dance director, Ruth Lewis, leads both programs Moving Through Dr. King's Principles of Nonviolence and Environmental Justice Movement. She does the workshops one class at a time in the classroom in the hopes to share the movement techniques with the teachers. Lewis has been a teaching artist since 2013 having been trained in Higher Order Thinking Schools teaching artist program. She has successfully completed the 2016-2017 Hartford Performs Arts Leader Program and is a Hartford Performs Arts Leader. Lewis was certified in Dr. King's Principles of Nonviolence in 2021. In 2023 she finished a two-year contemplative creative leadership and mindfulness program through The Mindfulness Collaboratory at Pratt Institute. Lewis has been teaching dance and choreographing for the last 30 years after being a professional ballet dancer with American Repertory Ballet. She also has been teaching yoga for the last eleven years.

Grade Levels

3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

Art Forms

Dance

Curriculum Focuses

Social Studies Science

Program Formats

In-School Workshop In-School Short Term Residency

Programs