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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Classes and Workshops for Children

Los Prometeitos. La Feria de los Inventos.
Miami Dade College Auditorium. Wolfson Campus
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Jorge Luis Morejon along with Marilyn Romero was co-founder of Miami Dade College, Wolfson's Bilingual Theatre Program for Children, Los Prometeitos. The Program functioned as a branch of its larger partner Prometeo Theatre Group. Envisioned and supervised by its former director Teresa Maria Rojas, Los Prometeitos was created in 1994. Jorge Luis Morejon worked in the program as a movement instructor for ten years next to Lilian Vega, acting instructor and Jorge Hernadez, voice instructor. During this period, a number of children's plays such as El Cangrejito Volador (The Flying little Crab) , La Feria de los Inventos (The Fair of Inventions), Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas (Alice in Wonderland), and Pinocho (Pinocchio).
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Jorge Luis Morejon was also a theatre instructor in the YWCA's After School Program of South Point Elementary from 1997 to 1998. At the request of MDC Interamerican campus professor Manolo Garcia, Jorge Luis volunteered to teach an Afro-Cuban dance workshop and storytelling to disadvantaged pre-school children in the NW Miami area. He also volunteered to teach a movement workshop to elementary school children in the University of Miami Summer Campus, Coral Gables. He taught his movement workshop in the Hispanic Ballet Summer School Program in Miami Beach and to high schoolers in the Little Haiti and Coral Gables areas.
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All these teaching experiences with very diverse children populations, his studies in Expressive Arts Therapy, along with his degree in Special Education, helped him to sharpen his teaching skills and his pedagogical understanding of the art of teaching movement, dance and theatre.

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