Lesson 14- Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

The Blue Man Group, three bald performance artists painted blue, offer lessons designed to engage, intrigue, and excite the imaginations of all ages of learners. Groups craft a trickster tale, invent melodious mathematical instruments,...

This short biography of Antonin Dvorak and map of Eastern Europe could accompany and supplement listening to "Slavonic Dance No. 7." Four questions support reading the geographic map, a "Listening Map" outlines the form of the...

Students research Margaret Jenkins. In this modern dance lesson, students discuss the life of Margaret Jenkins and the art of modern dance. They create their own modern dance focusing on time, shape, movement, and energy.

Students study the life and music of composer, Samuel Barber. In groups, representing trees, water, and stars they use interpretive dance to tell the story of the musical composition, 'Adagio for Strings, Op. 11' by Barber.

Students discover an Indian influence on Blues music. In this music lesson, students explore improvisation and compare the traditions of different cultures and styles. Students develop the blues scale, cyclical music, and compose short...

Students combine literature with dance. They explore how to express themselves through dance form reading and interpreting poetry. Students expand their knowledge of dance through all aspects of the curriculum. They choreograph a dance...

Learners assess their classmate dance sequences.

Students discuss how the rain, sun and dirt help plants grow and are encouraged to answer open-ended questions relating to the stories.

Students use dance as a way of speaking out without using words to express content, and to express verbal understanding when thinking about movement.

Students recognize the timbre of a celesta by listening to music that contains the celesta. They listen to music from Tchaikovsky's "Danse de la Fee-Dragee" (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies), track #14 and describe how the music...