Harlan Brownlee
Recognizing the powerful engagement and educational benefits of dance and creative movement, Harlan Brownlee integrates dance with STEM education.

'Weather on the Move' with Harlan Brownlee

August 12, 2026 - May 31, 2027 | 60-minute workshop

Workshop cost: $100 per classroom. Scholarships and discounts available.

Grades 2-6

Teaching Artist Harlan Brownlee instructs students on the fundamentals of weather phenomena through the use of their bodies and movement.

Focusing specifically on clouds in the troposphere, the workshop introduces cloud types and their associated altitudes directly to dance concepts of level, motif, and shape.

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Harlan Brownlee understands the transformational power that the arts have to improve the quality of life for individuals and the community. He possesses a passion for the arts, guided by a disciplined approach to change. Harlan has worked in the field of arts integration for over 40 years. Beginning with Kansas City Young Audiences, Inc in 1984, he leads residencies for students K-12, presents workshops, demonstration teaching, professional development, and coaching for teachers, and has led training seminars for teaching artists nationwide.

Since 2000, Harlan has been a National Teaching Artist with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He holds a BFA degree in dance with an emphasis in performance and choreography and a MA in Educational Research and Psychology. In 2019, Mr. Brownlee joined the Focus 5 team, a National Arts Integration Consulting Firm. That same year, he was awarded a Young Audiences National Residency Teaching Artist Credential.

Recognizing the powerful engagement and educational benefits of dance and creative movement, Harlan integrates dance with STEM education. He has presented at Project Lead the Way’s (PLTW) National Conferences, showcasing his expertise in blending STEM curriculum with creative movement and dance.

In addition, he has designed and implemented hundreds of lesson plans in over 35 years of instructing a weekly class at Community School #1 that integrated dance and movement into the general curriculum with an emphasis on the subject areas of science and literacy. Harlan has been an adjunct professor for Rockhurst University’s School of Education and the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Education and is a past Associate Editor for the Teaching Artist Journal.

For 13 years, Harlan was one of the Artistic Co-Directors choreographing and dancing for City in Motion Dance Theater, a professional dance company that toured the Midwest and was featured at the World Expo in 1992 in Seville, Spain.