Residency Activities & Community Projects

Andrea Ariel working with visual artist Pilar Castrejon leads the program with 15 at-risk youth at a Fairway Village Apts., a subsidized housing project.
Andrea Ariel works with 10 women in recovery, transitioning back to their lives and families at Austin Family House, Legacy Program.
Andrea Ariel expands the program to Oak Creek Village Apts., a housing project, with classes of 20 or more youth ages 2-14.

Andrea Ariel and members of the company, including composers and musicians, Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds, hold programs for 2nd-5th graders at Decker Elementary, Brooke Elementary, Metz Elementary for last six years.
Andrea Ariel and the company hold a 3-week residency of Creative Movement and Improvisation, ending with a company performance (which the students joined to dance at the end) at Rosedale Community School for mutiply-disabled youth.
Walter Thompson, in residence with the company, joins Andrea Ariel for part of a 12-week residency program with the American Institute for Learning, Cultural Warriors Program, created to provide struggling adolescents with an outlet for constructive expression of their specific issues and needs while completing their High School Degrees. The project included classes in Improvisation, Creative Movement, Musical Theater, Sound Painting™, and rehearsals for an original musical, Paradise, written by the students. The residency culminated in a Sound Painting™ performance of Paradise, directed and conducted by Andrea Ariel.

Andrea Ariel teaches a one-day master class, Movement for Actors, to 50 students at McCallum High School Theater Department.
Andrea Ariel teaches a four-weekend movement workshop for the Rude Mechanicals Theater Collective, utilizing concepts of Skinner Release Technique, dance, and improvisation to open the body for theater work.

Andrea Ariel teaches a 3-week residency in Paris, Texas meeting every 2nd grader in the whole school district, some 1st and 5th graders too.