Helping at-risk adolescents move through Life’s challenges.

Move It! is directed by Barbara Jo Stetzelberger, LCSW, BC-DTR, an award-winning Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in the use of movement, dance, and somatic psychology to help individuals access their natural capacity for healing.

Move It! provides life-changing experiences of creativity, self-worth, and relationship-building. Using dance and movement, students experience physical and emotional safety and confidence in their bodies. They develop greater resilience and create community while making meaningful personal connections with peers and adults.

Classes, half-day workshops, full-day workshops, culminating showings.

For more information about Move It!, contact kathy@kdhdance.com.

Our dance presentations are designed to engage students and get them moving and thinking in a fun, fast-paced environment. Students participate in Creative Movement Classes where they move bravely through space, learn basic elements of dance, work safely with others, problem-solve and experience personal success. These presentations can include a brief, informal performance by members of our dance company.

Suggested Age Group: K through 5

Time: Approximately 1 hour

Sample: Fine Arts Day at Smith Elementary in Del Valle, TX. Kathy Dunn Hamrick taught a 45-minute creative movement class to 250 3rd and 4th graders in the gym, followed by a 10-minute performance by the company.

Our dance company can perform in your school gymnasium in the round or with students seated on bleachers. We like to include a brief introduction as well as a follow-up Q&A.

Suggested Age Group: 5th grade and up

Time: Approximately 1 hour

Sample: Performance for O Henry Middle School in Austin, TX. Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company performed three back-to-back concerts for the entire student body in the school’s gym.

Our dance company will bring our fully-produced dance concerts to your Performing Arts Center. Many of our dance works include original scores, live music and/or video elements.

Suggested Age Group: Middle School and Up

Time: Approximately 1 hour

Sample: Performance for Round Rock ISD, Round Rock, TX. Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company performed “There, the Magnificent,” a 50-minute dance with live music and video projections, for 2500 Round Rock ISD Dance Students at the RRISD Performing Arts Center.

If you are based in Austin and want your students to experience the magic of live theater, you can arrange a command performance of our dance company’s latest work. Students will meet the dancers during our Q&A.

Suggested Age Group: 3rd Grade and Up

Time: Approximately 1 hour

Sample: Field Trip to a Local Theater for a Live Dance Performance. Leap of Joy (an afterschool dance program) and Zavala Elementary School bused students to Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, TX for a performance of “Flash Dance: 30 Dances in 60 Minutes,” by Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company.

Our dance company can teach Master Classes in our Austin studio (Cafe Dance) or in yours. We often like to follow-up with a Q&A with the company dancers and/or a brief open rehearsal. Residencies can include a series of classes and choreography.

Suggested Age Group: 6th grade and up

Time: Approximately 1.5 hours per class

Sample: Students from Houston took a Master Class from Kathy at Cafe Dance, watched a brief company rehearsal, and followed up with a Q&A.

Every year, we donate up to 100 free dance concert tickets to non-profit organizations, at-risk youth and their families or guardians, and other programs that represent underserved populations.

Sampling of Past Participants: The Settlement Home, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Communities in Schools and AISD’s American Indian Education Program.