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Pbs: Native American Culture: Cherokee Beaver Dance
In this video, The Raven Rock Dancers perform the Beaver Dance, a social dance depicting the actions of a hunting party. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [5:10]
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Pbs: Native American Culture: Apache Dance Performance
In this video segment, the Apache Crown dancers perform a traditional Crown Dance in full regalia to music. Included are teaching tips, and activity, and additional background information. [2:35]
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Pbs: Native American Culture: About Git Hoan Dances
David Boxley of the Git-Hoan Dancers discusses dance traditions of the Tsimshian, whose descendants live on the Northwest coast of northern British Columbia and in southeastern Alaska. He discusses the use of masks and other handmade...
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Pbs: Native American Culture: Zuni Harvest Dance
In this video instructor Arden Kucate gives background on the Zuni culture and the harvest celebration, explains the significance of Zuni boys being presented with gourd shakers, and teaches a group of middle school students two dances...
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Pbs: Native American Culture: Git Hoan Raven Dance
In this video, the Git-Hoan Dancers perform the Raven Dance, a celebration of the Raven Clan. They wear masks representing the clan. In Tsimshian culture, the wearer of a mask is said to take on the spirit of the creature it signifies....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Edgar Degas: The Dance Class
Provides an in-depth look at Edgar Degas' 1874 painting 'The Dance Class', which is an example of Impressionism art. An audio guide by two art critics provides further discussion of Impressionism and a detailed description of the...
A&E Television
History.com: History Vault: Cultural Docummentaries
Discover the artists, athletes, architects and more who changed the culture and the world with this collection of 25 cultural documentaries including The Great Ziegfield, The Untold Story of the '90s and Bob Fosse: Dancing On The Edge.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Buffalo Dance
This is a very early silent clip from the Edison Manufacturing Co. featuring a Native Sioux dance. [0:22]
Crash Course
Crash Course Theater #24: Indian Dance Drama: Kathakali
Travel to India in this video to learn about theater that tells traditional Indian stories. Research Kathakali which is an all-night dance show which ended with the metaphorically killing of a Demon! Finally, explore the remarkable...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Second Empire: Carpeaux's Dance
A narrated video [3:42] of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Dance, 1865-69 in Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Realism: Degas, the Dance Class
A video [5:09] about Edgar Degas' The Dance Class, 1874 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Tahtonka!
An account of the Plains Indians and their buffalo culture, beginning with the pre-horse period up until the Ghost Dance movement and the tragic episode of Wounded Knee.
Crash Course
Crash Course Film History #14: World Cinema Part 1
This video focuses on World Cinema from Asia including Japanese films from anime to horror and period dramas to Kaiju films are still popular around the globe. It explains films from mainland China's epics and Hong Cong's martial arts...
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Big Bands & Swing Music in the 1930s
Video provides a brief introduction to "big band music" or "swing music", including a few of the major figures of the genre, as well as dances and slang terms associated with the music. [4:14]
PBS
Pbs: The Civil War Era: About the Lancers Quadrille
This video explains the history of The Lancers Quadrille, including the origin of the dance and why it was popular in Civil War-era America. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [4:21]
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Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: Goin' to Boston
Goin' to Boston is a traditional folk dance enjoyed as a "play party game" in Appalachia. Learn commonly used folk dance movements such as promenade, sashay, reel, and casting the line in this video. Included are teaching tips and...
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Pbs: The Civil War Era: The Lancers Quadrille
In this video, the Berea Festival Dancers perform two sets of The Lancers Quadrille, a social dance that was popular in Civil War-era America. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [5:53]
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Pbs: Kentucky/applachian Culture: Bluegrass Clogging
Host David Thurmond tells how clogging came to America and how shoes with taps evolved. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [3:03]
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Upon a Summer's Day
In this video, instructor Jennifer Rose teaches a group of fifth-grade students a Renaissance dance, Upon a Summer's Day, from John Playford's book The English Dancing Master. Included are teaching tips and additional background...
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: E Sin Mi D'africa
Watch a welcome dance that combines movements from several traditional dances of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [8:18]
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: Zudio
This African-American game song, emphasizing rhythm and self-expression, is sung to movements described in the lyrics and demonstrated by the children in the audience. Included are teaching tips and additional background information....
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Hasapiko Instruction Video Clips
This site by The Hellenic Traditional Arts Institute offers videos and step by step instructions on how to dance the Hasapiko.
PBS
Pbs: Indian Pride: Myths and Real Truths, Part 5
The Metis Dancers, a dance group from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, demonstrate their craft in this video. [4:54]
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Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: About Play Party Games
video interview about play party games played in Eastern Kentucky and the importance of the games as community celebrations and opportunities to court. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [4:59]
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