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Eboni Ramm talks about her poem and the song, Amazing Grace.
Dance - Artopia
Step inside Artopia's Dance lobby!
Artopia
Artopia is a comprehensive web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts.
Visual and Performing Arts for Grades 6-8
Artopia is a comprehensive web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts. Students will learn art history via animated one-minute movies, be guided on how to closely examine important works of art, and view videos of professional artists at work.This project was supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Please note many of the web videos include transcripts.
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Eboni Ramm provides advice about having a career in music and poetry. Listen to students perform spoken word.
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Watch Simon Tarr's video, Sundog Verga Matrix
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Maria Manhattan talks about the artistic direction for the website Artopia.
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Eboni Ramm talks about how she teaches students about jazz.
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Danielle Howle talks about the process of songwriting.
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Danielle Howle talks about the song she wrote for the SCETV documentary, Remember My Name
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Simon Tarr talks about how much he didn't enjoy math in school. He discovered later that trigonometry was very important to video game design.
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Danielle Howle talks about her experiences of playing with a band.
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Eboni Ramm talks about her favorite music genres, spirituals and jazz.
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Eboni Ramm sings her jazz reinterpretation of the hymn, Amazing Grace and also includes spoken word.
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Piano Jazz's Marian McPartland record a duet session with American pianist and composer, Joe Sample.
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Maria Manhattan talks about her apple paintings and the importance of having a studio.
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Maria Manhattan talks about her process of designing the Artopia art cards. Check out the art cards below: Dance Art Cards Media Arts Cards Music Art Cards Painting Art Cards Sculpture Art Cards...
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Maria Manhattan explains her art philosophy and how we should embrace our own art styles.
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Martha Brim's dance company performs a piece called Suspended Falls.
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Marcelo Novo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as a Profesor de Bellas Artes from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” and studied painting under Surrealist artist...
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Miriam Barbosa describes the passion and love it takes to make dance work as a career.
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Astor Piazzolla, an Argentinian composer, created the music used in Catharsis. The music provided some unique challenges to the choreographer and dancers.
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A Closer Look A waterfall flows, but it also leaps and rolls and turns. It breaks apart and comes back together and it is made up of many drops of water. As the Power Company dancers perform Suspended...
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Martha Brim describes her own past with dance and the decision to pursue it as a career.
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Miriam Barbosa began with classical training but later discovered her passion for a variety of styles and techniques.
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Martha Brim is a professor of dance at Columbia College and artistic director of The Power Company.
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Marcelo Novo and Miriam Barbosa collaborated to create the multimedia dance performance, Catharsis. Novo and Barbosa describe the character, V-Man.
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