Expressing Jewish Values through Movement Presenter: Lin Batsheva Kahn
This experiential hands on workshop will teach how to use movement in the Jewish classroom. Educators will be lead in a variety of engaging exercises to use with their students to express V'Ahavta and Mussar character traits through original and creative motion. Intended for 3th-7th grade, participants will also learn about important facets of creative and critical thinking skills to motivate meaningful long lasting learning. This session is designed for teachers working with grades 3-7.
Lin Batsheva Kahn is an award-winning dance professor. Kahn teaches Modern Dance in the renowned Theatre School at DePaul University. She also created and teaches Diversity in Dance: Paradigms Shifting; Chicago Dancing and Creativity and Adversity: Psychology, Jewish Thought and the Arts, her one of a kind course about transcending hardship. Honors include a current 2016 Excellence in Teaching nomination, DePaul's highest teaching award, 2014 Jewish Chicagoan of the Year by the the Chicago Jewish News and 100 Women of Inspiration by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine for her work in dance education and performance. She was named a DePaul 2015 Woman of Substance and a DePaul Woman of Spirit and Action in 2014 and 2013. Finalist for an Athena Award sponsored by Inside Business Magazine for outstanding teaching with inner city and international women in 2007, she was a 2002 Arts Educator of the Year from the Ohio Alliance for Arts in Education and a 3-time nominee for the Ohio Governor's Award in Arts Education in Dance. Teaching includes Interlochen Center for the Arts, Curtis Music Institute, Case Western Reserve University, American College Dance Festivals, DanceCleveland, Metro Cuyahoga Community College, the Ohio Arts Council Artist-in-Residence program, and workshops at UChicago and Temple University Hillels, Orot, and Anshe Emet. Guest teacher for Kolben Dance Company School and lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2013, she set her choreography there on Angela Dance Company and brought Israeli Miriam Engel from Angela to DePaul in November 2015 for a 5 day event for students. Artistic Director, founder, choreographer, and performer with Tikvah Company of Artists, an ensemble of dancers, actors and musicians, her dance theater piece Seven, inspired by seven words has been performed in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Jerusalem. With over 4,000 views, her ELI Talk, Creativity and the Good Inclination will be presented at Mishkan in September. “There are only positive things about this woman's teaching style.” Alex Messina, DePaul University.
