The Creative Movement, Inc.

the official site for:

Discovering Identity. Pursuing Purpose. Leading with Creativity.

The Creative Mission

It is the mission of The Creative Movement, Inc., to provide quality arts education training, and performance opportunities to underserved and underepresented students, educators, performing artists, and youth.

We work to achieve this through fundraising, local and federal funding, and public and private donor support:

OBJECTIVES:

To provide superior arts education to underserved or underrepresented communities within the public, private, and collegiate sector
To promote artistic excellence in skill, expression, and practice
To raise funds to provide financial assistance to high school and collegiate arts students for training, education, and mentorship
To promote arts literacy in children and youth
To inspire an appreciation for the artistic process, self, and creative development

The Creative Values

Discovering Identity

Quality arts education allows students to explore their own creative voice and ideal mode of expression. This then becomes the vehicle in which students discover who they want to be in the world and how they want to show up.

Pursuing Purpose

To pursue purpose is to endeavor to understand how we would like to contribute our talents, skills, and interest. The arts can help students make meaningful connections with their community, with self, and the world around them.

Leading With Creativity

Every individual has the capacity for leadership; whether our students pursue a career in the arts or in STEM, exposure to and participation in quality arts programs helps students to access their highest level of creative brilliance in any field.

Meet The Founder

Whitley Green is a life coach to women through Whitley Nicole, LLC, and the current dance director and cheer & dance program coordinator for a STEAM school in the Dallas Independent School District where she helps students develop technique, stage presence, and self confidence. She also serves as the media specialist creating daily content to engage students, promote parent involvement, and boost morale through Panther News and our social media platforms.

With 9 years of teaching experience, Green has garnered the support of her educational philosophy through grant funding in the amount of $41,000 for various projects that have helped her promote innovative student and community engagement in and beyond the classroom. Earning support from the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, Junior League of Dallas Innovative Teachers Grants, and the Heart of Teaching Grant from the Education Foundation philanthropic partner of Dallas ISD. She created The Creative Movement, Inc., formally named D.A.N.C.E Academy Dances of the African Diaspora, in 2017 during her graduate studies after understanding the need for quality arts educational programs in public education.

Her teaching credits include The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas Woman’s University, Richland College,the New York City Department of Education, and the Dallas Independent School District. She has been invited to present at various professional dance conferences, high school and college programs as both a guest artist, master teacher, and choreographer which include the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD), Texas Dance Educators Association (TDEA), the National Dance Society (NDS), the Southwest Cecchetti Ballet Conference, Garland Independent School District, Plano Independent School District, Arlington Independent School District, Dallas College, Tyler Junior College, New Jersey and the New York City Department of Education. Her dance training includes; a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance from the The University of North Texas, a Masters of Arts in Dance Education K-12 from New York University, where she was the 1st Graduate Student Valedictorian Speaker; Dance Place in Washington, DC; Dance The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard; Peridance, the Cumbe African and Diaspora Dance Center, and The Institute for Dunham Technique. Green has taught and performed both locally and abroad at The National Theater in Kampala,Uganda; the Frederick Loewe Theater and Radio City Hall. Whitley’s most recent accolades include being named 2023-2024 Teacher of the Year at Hulcy STEAM Middle School in the Dallas Independent School District.

Green’s artistic mission is to inspire an appreciation for the creative process and to teach students to know the arts to be a means for self exploration, communication, storytelling, art making, and community building.

Photo by: Alex Harris

@shotbyalexharris

Programmatic Vision

Our programs reflect The Creative Movement mission objectives. It is our intention to be a premier arts education organization supporting underserved children, youth, and young professional artist.

We are making efforts each day to connect with resources that will help to build capacity and allow us to expand our programs to a larger audience more consistently.

Program Offerings

An artist in residence program funded to commission unique and relevant artist to engage the community, train aspiring professionals, and build capacity in resident artist.

A media arts focused program for 7-12th grade students designed to teach and explore the elements of video production for various platforms and artistic, archival, and entertainment purposes.

An internship style teaching artist program intended to train and develop students into world class arts educators and performers, in the private, public, and commercial sector.

Folk Tales

The Dancing Camera

D.A.N.C.E Academy

Guest Who?

A multidisciplinary literacy arts residency designed to engage 5th and 6th grade students in the creative process of storytelling through text, movement, and visual art. Can be adapted to multiple grade levels.

Stay Connected...

-Guadelupe Rodriguez, 6th grade

Folk Tales helped me build confidence because I don’t think I was confident before. I was very nervous.

-Meagan Sanchez,

10th grade, (Plano High School)

This workshop was so fun! I never did African Dance but Whitley made it fun and easy.

...with the Movement

Contact Information:

539 W. Commerce ST #1799 Dallas, TX, 75208

469-924-6533

president@thecreativemovementinc.org