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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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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.
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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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The idea of the collective unconscious influences Novo’s work through his connection to his heritage and culture.
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Marcelo Novo and Miriam Barbosa collaborated to create the multimedia dance performance, Catharsis.
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A dance piece by Dan Wagoner, performed on the stage.
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Wagoner’s family provided him with a stable anchor that helped him go forward and explore his passion.
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Weis explains how she decides who to work with and how to make the most out of every collaborator’s individual strengths.
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Wagoner explains his personal history with dance, which began when he was a young boy in West Virginia.
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Dan Wagoner encourages young people to explore dancing by studying movements and the anatomy of the body.
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The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis thinks of unsuccessful...
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Wagoner describes Leonard Shlain’s theory of art and physics and how it relates to his own work.
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The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis offers a tour of her studio in...
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Cameras are an important part of Weis’s work. Here, she explains the technology and process behind her work.
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L.I.P.S. stands for Live Internet Performing Structure. It’s a long-distance process that involves mixing dance videos.
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Weis details her career and how cameras have become an important part of her work. She explains the technology and process.
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