Robinson Cultural Arts Program

Students call it fun, we call it Cultural Arts. Every student, every year, participates in a 10 lesson, performing arts residency, unique to each grade, K-5. Developed by Robinson teachers and performing arts artists, cultural arts enhances classroom learning, strengthens students’ creative and artistic skills, builds confidence, and broadens student exposure to a diverse array of experiences through the performing arts.

Every residency consists of a high quality curriculum that meets the stringent California Visual and Performing Arts Standards, and reinforces classroom learning by tying to a unit of study or theme within each grade’s curriculum.

Grade	Performing Art	Curriculum Tie
Kindergarten	3 Piggy Opera	Beginning Literature: Plot, Character, Conflict
1st	Pantomime	Sequencing: Writing, Math
2nd	Irish Dance	Communities Outside Our Own
3rd	Square Dance	Westward Expansion, Geometry
4th	California Folk Dance	Study of California
5th	Urban Contemporary Dance	Theme of “Power”