Gayle Danley

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Award-winning slam poet Gayle Danley offers this 45 minute performance of her original work. Each program is audience-appropriate. Using poetry, movement and song, Danley examines subjects such as grief and healing, urban life and the undying love between two friends. Often moving, always entertaining, and truly inspiring, Danley' s work has touched the hearts and minds of students of all ages and walks of life.

This is available as a single, full-day program only. The performance is followed by four individual classroom workshops. During the workshops, students focus on the structure and language of poetry, discover new ways to use language, review performance techniques, and perform original poems. Audience limit for the workshops is thirty students.

This program can be tailored to suit an adult audience and is available as a professional development workshop.

Grade Level:
4-12
Performance cost (single):
$1287.00
Audience Limit:
200
Curriculum Correlations:
Language Arts, The Arts
Tags:
professional development , performance , traveling artist , wellness , poetry

Gayle Danley

Gayle Danley was born in New York City, and grew up in Atlanta. She studied broadcast journalism at Howard University' s School of Communications.

Danley worked as an editor for the National Rifle Association, then left to study radio, television and film at Syracuse University, earning an MA. She discovered slam poetry after finishing school, and embraced it almost immediately. She won the 1994 National Individual Slam Poet in Ashville, NC just months after her first exposure. In Heidelberg, Germany, she became the 1996 International Slam Poet Champion.

Danley launched her one-woman show, touching thousands with her slam poetry workshops, lectures, performances and speeches. Her books includes "Naked," "Soulfull - A Slam Poetry Study Guide," and "Passionate - Poems You Can Feel." She maintains a constant tour of elementary and secondary schools, helping students with traumatic experiences and teaching slam poetry workshops to all age groups. She was spotlighted in a story on slam poetry by CBS' s 60 Minutes in 1999. She fuses her poetry with the ability to touch her audience through real life experiences, leaving a lasting emotional message.

Recent clients include Alonzo Crim High School (Atlanta GA), South Brunswick High (NJ), "Out of the Box" arts conference for artists and educators (NYS Alliance, Binghamton, NY), and The Kitchen Theatre Presents Women in the Arts. Under YA-WNY' s umbrella, Danley has worked with young people recovering from addictions at Renaissance Campus, and with homeless youth at Compass House. In 2006, Danley was named the Young Audiences National Artist of the Year.