Tom Krusinski
Movement & Dance
Ballet | Beginner's Ballet | Creative Dance | Boys Dance
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Teaching Philosophy
The doorway for learning for young children is joyfulness. When students experience an atmosphere of joyful discipline, playfulness, and spontaneity within clear boundaries and acknowledgment of “their” creative process, then their desire to learn becomes a natural outgrowth.
In Creative Dance, Pre-Ballet, Ballet, Making Dances or Harmonica, I teach to each student’s strengths. And I encourage and support them when they experience challenges. My teaching style, developed over 30 years, integrates Harvard professor Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences (linguistic, mathematical, kinesthetic, spatial, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal). And I integrate mindfulness of self and others into each class.
From this knowledge I can observe, recognize and teach to each student’s strengths and challenges so that learning is a joyous adventure. With over 30 years of teaching dance, I am confident that dance and music are essential parts of developing joyful, embodied and wholesome children.
Biography
Three aspects of my background influence my teaching philosophy and class structure.
Academic Education includes a BS in Psychology and Early Childhood Education at Richmond College, NYC. Additionally, I completed courses in Dance Therapy and The Art of Play at Leslie College and The Theory of Multiple Intelligences at Harvard University.
Professional Dance Performances and Training includes performing with a variety of modern dance companies in the US and internationally (Dance Collective, Jo Ha Kyu, MJT Dance Company, Young Audiences, Spring and Christmas Revels with Jack Langstaff, Harvard Radcliff Summer Dance Programs with guest artists and choreographers, and Naropa Summer Dance Program). My collaboration as principal dancer/choreographer with Christopher Janney of MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies premiered the technology/movement design that became the Sound Stair installation at the Boston Museum of Science and Boston Children’s Hospital and which is now in children’s hospitals internationally. We toured Sound Stair and another piece, Tone Zone, in the US and Europe.
Mindfulness Mind Body Training developed from my appreciation of traditional practices from Asia including 20 years as a mindfulness meditation practitioner and 10 years as a teacher from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition; Zen Archery standing meditation practice with Shibata Kanjuro Sensei the 20 st generation imperial bow maker for the Emperor of Japan and then authorized as an instructor for Boston Students; and Shinto Japanese Bugaku- Imperial Court Dance study with Togi Sensei and integration into Jo Ha Kyu Dance Company performances.
Degrees
B.S. Psychology & Early Childhood Education, Richmond College
Additional Studies, Leslie College & Harvard University