ANDREW JANNETTI
PS 79 Francis Lewis Elementary School
Andrew Jannetti, K-5
PS 79 Francis Lewis Elementary School
Andrew Jannetti teaches at PS 79 Francis Lewis Elementary School in Queens NY. He is a graduate of Montclair State University, where he was part of the first cohort to graduate with a Dance Concentration. After years of performing in NYC with his own company and teaching in studios, private schools, and community centers including Brooklyn Arts Exchange, he returned to school to get his Masters in Dance Education from NYU, Steinhardt. It was during this time that he took the DEL Foundations course at the 92nd Street Y, which reinforced and expanded his “Teachers Heart”. Mr. Jannetti sees dance as essential to the growth of a student’s search for authenticity and individual expression of ‘self.’ He believes in working with the level, ability, and natural instincts of each student and then moving them toward an increased self-awareness, higher level of cognition, overall physical well-being, and positive social interactions.
Andrew Jannetti, MA is based in NYC and has a distinguished career as a choreographer, dancer, educator, fitness instructor, and producer. He has presented choreography at DTW, St. Marks’s Danspace, Gibney Arts, 92nd Street Y, Alvin Ailey Center, The Duke, DIA, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Cunningham, DUMBO Dance Festival, CoolNY Festival, ADG Festival, NY International Dance Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival, and other venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. He’s been awarded grants for his choreography from NYSCA, NJSCA, MCAF, Meet The Composers, the Field, and the Harkness Center. He was awarded a BAXten award, aPASEtter award, and the Dani Nikas Excellence in Teaching Award and recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York State Dance Education Association (NYSDEA). He works full time as a Dance Educator for the NYC Department of Education, and also at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange(BAX) for over 30 years in many roles from Teaching Artist to Education Director and Director of their School Breaks program. He is an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers, New Brunswick and at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. He is a Past-President of the NYSDEA and served on the Advisory Board of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO).