Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) is committed to finding ways to engage audiences with activities inspired by literature, poetry, music, visual arts, environment, “place” and socially relevant issues that serve to train and ignite the creative voice in people of all ages.

RDT Green Map® Arts/Environmental Residency Program: There is a growing need to help young people understand the concept of environmental sustainability and become involved in the life and health of their communities. RDT has created a unique Arts/Environmental Education Residency Program for schools based on the Green Map® System, a global movement encouraging communities to take inventory of sustainability practices. Through “place-based” education, inter-disciplinary activities and the arts, RDT will utilize the Green Map ® System tools to actively engage 30,000 young people in the life of their communities and inspire a dynamic understanding of “place.”

Green Mapping has been adopted in over 600 cities world wide and helps individuals understand their community through the literal use of a map that will be created by students using beautifully designed Green Map icons © to identify places such as nature preserves and cultural centers, history, geography, environmental justice and activism, green enterprise and efforts to improve the environment. The RDT Green Map Residency will create paths and techniques of inquiry, exploration and expression while inspiring young people to be thoughtful and productive citizens. (www.greenmap.org)

“Solutions to many of our ecological problems lie in an approach that celebrates, empowers, and nurtures the cultural, artistic, historical and spiritual resources of each local community and champions their ability to bring those resources to bear on the healing of nature and community.” (David Sobel)

The RDT Green Map Project consists of three concurrent inter-related activities:

1. The creation of a Green Map of Salt Lake County (digital and printed)
2. Arts and Environmental Education outreach activities including lectures, movement classes, teacher workshops, demonstrations for teachers and students.
3. Performance events for schools and the community.
   

RDT will invite schools K-12 to become engaged in the mapping of 16 cities in Salt Lake County to identify sustainable living. Under the guidance of the RDT Green Map Steering Committee, led by Linda Smith RDT Executive / Artistic Director and Ivan Weber, sustainability consultant, RDT dancers, community volunteers, and leaders in the environmental education community will assist students and teachers in developing a Green Map inventory of Salt Lake County as a pathway to develop life-long learning skills. The process enhanced by a movement language inspired by the Green Map icons© will celebrate environmental progress and help identify concerns. It will anchor our community’s strengths, assets and challenges on an enduring, dynamic map of our own landscape and celebrate this map in art, neighborhood by neighborhood, school by school. The process leads to the creation of a new paradigm in environmental education, a model program to be replicated in communities nation-wide.

Green Map® Documentary- RDT/Ogden Project from RDT on Vimeo.

For more information about the Green Map® System, visit www.greenmap.org.

About RDT's Green Map Project

• Why a Dance Company
• Dancing the Green Map
• Goals

How to Get Involved

• Become a Green Map School
• Become a Green Map Sponsor

RDT's Green Map Partners: