Step inside Artopia's Dance lobby! Students can learn about the history of dance by exploring Art History. Under Be a Dance Critic, students are guided on how to closely examine a variety of dances. In Meet a Dancer, watch videos of dancers at work.
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The following list offers a quick tour through the Dance section. Art History Dance - One Minute Art Lesson Bill T. Jones Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Isadora Duncan Jerome Robbins Katherine Dunham...
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INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the link above to access the Google Docs document. You can go under File and select "Make a Copy" to add to your own Google Drive or "Print." In Be a Dance Critic, take a closer...
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Students will study Dan Wagoner and will use the Dance Elements of shape, weight, balance, and rhythm to create a dance study.
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space – where the body is moving body – what the body is doing time – how the body moves in relation to time dynamics – how the body is moving relationship – with whom or what the body is moving motif...
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Illustration by Maria Manhattan Jerome Robbins was born in New York City on October 11, 1918 and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey. As a child he showed talent, studying piano, violin and dance. Leaving...
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Illustration by Maria Manhattan Ping Chong was born in 1946 to a Chinese opera family in Toronto, Canada and spent his youth in New York’s Chinatown neighborhood, which influenced the themes explored...
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Illustration by Maria Manhattan Savion Glover was born on November 19, 1973 and was raised by his mother and grandmother in Newark, New Jersey. As a very young child he displayed his unique rhythmic...
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Illustration by Maria Manhattan Katherine Dunham was born on June 22, 1909 in Chicago and raised in Joliet, Illinois. As a young person she began dance training in a kind of free form modern dance and...
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Illustration by Maria Manhattan Isadora Duncan was born on May 26, 1877 in San Francisco, California to artistic parents; her father was a poet and her mother a music teacher. Isadora loved poetry...
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Illustration by Maria Manhattan Bill T. Jones was born on February 15 1952 in Bunnell, Florida and was raised mostly in rural Stuben County in Upstate New York, as the tenth of twelve children to a...
