For over 30 years, HMD has excited, inspired, and educated students through its unique blend of Dance, Theater, and Outreach. Our Educational Programming provides engaging opportunities for students in Early Childhood through High School, offering students the chance to experience and interact with the Art of Dance!
3 Sessions Each - 30 minutes in length
Classes introduce children to the joy and excitement of dance, music and movement. With a focus on creative, social, emotional and physical wellness, students will use movement to problem solve, work with others, express feelings, and interact with their environment. Students will be exposed to dance vocabulary of multiple genres and will grow in their ability to link movement together, challenging their memory in addition to creativity, strength and flexibility. Dance Discovery encourages children to explore movement using their imagination through dance and music. Collaboration with the teachers and the curriculum focus for the week add an additional learning tool teachers can bring into their classrooms to explain, teach and illustrate ideas.
3 Sessions each - 50 Minutes Each
Classes focus on body and spatial awareness, rhythm, and personal expression. Students use visual art as inspiration for dance, encouraging them to interpret meaning in art and express that meaning through movement. This class taps into kinesthetic and visual learning to help foster greater connection to information shared during the school day. Time is given for a mixture of structured directions for moving as well as time for individual explorations in order to practice critical thinking in a non-competitive environment. This class also delves into how music and art affect one's emotions, how students react to that effect and how they can change that effect. These tools help students learn to deal in the social setting of schools, with home situations and the community at large.
***TEKS are explored in all Outreach Programs based on the grade levels
3 sessions each - 1 Hour
Learn and experience the enjoyment of creative movement! Through this class, students will grow in body and spatial awareness, rhythm, and musical interpretation. Students are led in creating their own movement-based interpretations of basic concepts. Join us as we experiment with expressing ourselves through dance and exercising our bodies in a new way.
3 sessions each - 1 Hour
Students are mentored in expanding their creative ideas through movement, exploring the different styles and techniques of choreography and dance creation. Students learn and discuss how music and society impact the process. Students learn from one another, how different people interpret differently.
5 sessions each - 1 Hour
Learn the history and experience the enjoyment of jazz dance! Over the course of 5 sessions, students will gain an introduction to key jazz dance styles across history. Each session combines history and choreography to build technical skills, body and spatial awareness, rhythm, and musical interpretation. Perfect for grades 6-12, no prior dance experience needed - just energy, and a willingness to have fun while learning something new.
1 session - 1 Hour
DANCE FOCUS provides an up-close and personal dance experience for students. Our program provides in-depth exposure to a specific genre of dance of the student’s choice: Jazz, Contemporary, Modern, Hip Hop, and Broadway.
Programs offer an opportunity for the students to experience in-person, virtual live, on-demand, or a Field Trip opportunity to travel to Houston Met Dance.
Aldine, Alief, Conroe, Cypress Fairbanks, Deer Park, Fort Bend, Friendswood, Galena Park, Houston, Humble, Katy, Klein, Lamar, Pearland, Sheldon, Spring and Spring Branch
Episcopal High School, KIPP Charter Schools, Sugarcreek Montessori, The Joy School and Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy
Austin High School and Hayes High School
