The Williamsburg Movement & Arts Center (aka WMAAC) is a group of professional performing artists working together to enrich and expand educational opportunities for NYC students. Our workshops and residencies seek to fill the gap in creative performing arts education and physical fitness/awareness with engaging, diverse and tailor made programs that enhance the students ability to meet common core standards. WMAAC Workshops and Residencies {Elementary & Middle School} include: Creative Movement, Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern, Social Dance, World Dance, Acting/Theater, Fitkids Fitness, Spanish Immersion Movement/Theater, Voice and Ensemble Theater Productions. We provide a kinesthetic approach to pattern recognition, structural thinking and an experiential understanding of rhythm. Our dance residencies focus on building self confidence, body awareness, creative expression, spatial relationships, performance and discipline. Our theater and voice strive and support students creative voices, ensemble building, character creation, writing and reflection. Since 2010 we have been providing public and private schools within our District daytime in- school workshops as well as partnering with youth providers to teach performing arts in after school programs and take the lead in producing junior musicals with the students.