Donna Fleetwood
October 26, 2013Inspired Connections - Music, Movement and Literature
Learn to use stories, poetry and movement as expressive tools for exploring the many facets of Keetman and Orff's, Music for Children. Discover how the inherent qualities of elemental music, enhance other artistic expressions and vice versa. Children's stories, poems and fables come alive with rhythmic speech, simple melodies, instrumental accompaniments and movement. Please bring your imagination and recorders, and wear comfortable clothing.
Bio:
Donna Fleetwood holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Greensboro College, North Carolina and a Masters Degree in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. She received Certification in Orff Schulwerk from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia where she currently teaches and directs the Orff Certification Program. She has taught Pedagogy and Movement in Florida, Massachusetts and Utah. Active in the American Orff Schulwerk Association, Donna has served on the National Board of Trustees, as Chair of the International Outreach Committee, and has presented workshop sessions at national conferences and at the local level. Internationally, she has taught in Glasgow, Scotland, Hong Kong, China and in Seoul, Korea, and has studied at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria. In the U.S., she has experience as a general music/movement and choral teacher at the Oak Knoll School in Summit, New Jersey, the Saint Albans School for Boys in Washington, D.C., and 23 years in the public schools of Prince William County, Virginia. Recently returned from Paris, France, Donna taught at the Bilingual Montessori School of Paris, sang with the Paris Choral Society and the American Cathedral Choir and studied African Dance.