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Membership in Kaleidoscope and Mosaic is by invitation from the company director, Bronwen Houck.
Who Has Worked with Us
Kaleidoscope has worked with well-known choreographers including Pat Graney, Bill Evans, Tom Truss, Dani Tirrell, Jay Tan, Noelle Price, Maya Soto, Christian Swenson, Vincent Thomas, Shirley Jenkins, Jurg Koch, Paige Barnes, Eva Stone, Mary Kay Bisignano-Vadino, Debbie Gilbert, Joanne Petroff, Ellie Sandstrom, Nia-Amina Minro, Robbi A.
Moore, and Peter Kyle. For the past three decades, Anne has taught toddlers through adults at Creative Dance Center, trained teachers through her Summer Dance Institute, and conducted hundreds of workshops and residencies across the United States and abroad. She started as an elementary school teacher and then moved on to dance and pedagogy classes at the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Washington; she then taught children’s dance classes at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, and at the college’s Bill Evans Dance Theater.
We perform several community concerts throughout the year as well. Anne is the author of Teaching the Three Rs Through Movement Experiences, Creative Dance for All Ages, Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Teaching Creative Dance (DVD), and BrainDance (DVD), and numerous articles. Kaleidoscope is available to come to your school or venue to perform for your community.
Our Graduates’ Legacy
Our graduates utilize the Kaleidoscope skills of collaboration and creativity in a variety of settings: dancing professionally, attending college, teaching, and working in fields such as health, research, design, education, technology, and the arts.
Anne Green Gilbert
Anne Green Gilbert founded the Creative Dance Center and Kaleidoscope Dance Company in Seattle, Washington, in 1981 and the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers in 1994. All Kaleidoscope Dancers are required to take weekly modern dance classes at the Creative Dance Center. She has been an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University for many years and taught for Lesley University’s Outreach master’s program for 10 years.
As a member of the Arts Education Standards project, Gilbert helped write the Washington State Dance Standards and Learning Goals. Mosaic, CDC’s junior company which operates intermittently, offers additional performance opportunities for interested CDC students when Kaleidoscope is at capacity.
In 2000, Gilbert developed the BrainDance, a focusing warm-up exercise that is used in many schools, studios, and homes around the world.
She is founder and past president of the Dance Educators Association of Washington, an organization promoting quality dance education in all Washington state K-12 schools. BrainDance is used in many schools, studios, and homes around the world. Anne has had a varied teaching career.
Where We’ve Performed
Kaleidoscope has toured internationally in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Russia, Canada, Brazil, The Netherlands, Jamaica, Taiwan, and Denmark and has performed nationally in Washington, D.C., Oregon, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Utah, and all over Washington State.
Gilbert started as an elementary school teacher, moved on to dance and pedagogy classes at the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Washington, then taught children’s dance classes at Cornish College and Bill Evans/Dance Theatre Seattle. She is an active member of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) and Dance and the Child International (daCi).
Mosaic is a company of dancers ages 7 to 13.
She is the recipient of several awards, including the NDA Scholar/Artist award in 2005, the National Dance Education Organization Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, the Lawrence Tenney Stevens American Dance Award for her work with boys and men in dance in 2014, and the American Dance Festival Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 2016.