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Guest voice: Post-performance blues
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Guest Voices
It’s been my hope & intention that this blog might be a means for myself and others to converse with each other from our isolated locations as dance educators. All for the purpose of sharing ideas, anxieties, questions, solutions, hopes, and humor as we hone our skills for the daily diet of dance we serve. [...]
Tags:audience·chaos·culture·curriculum integration·obstacles·parents·performance·problems
Poetry Out Loud: in American Sign Language
April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
At the recent Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest in Washington D.C. (April 26-28), Tiffany Hinano Hill, a student at Oregon School for the Deaf, represented Oregon State. As the first contestant to use sign language to express a poem, Hill challenged the judges’ concept of Poetry Out Loud, clearly demonstrating the expressive power and [...]
Tags:culture·diversity·performance
Sunday in Merida
April 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Saturday‘s sort of like every other day in Merida, in the Yucatan in Mexico… there’s dance that happens. But Sunday’s the real thing. By 10:00 am in Santa Lucia Park, people are beginning to gather and claim their seats in the audience, most dressed in their Sunday best. The band sets up and starts to [...]
Merida: Saturday night on Paseo de Montejo
April 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
We arrived in Merida by bus on a Saturday, in plenty of time for wandering from our hotel down to the end of Paseo de Montejo, where the music and dancing are scheduled to start at 8. Time is proximate in Mexico, so the performances didn’t start quite on cue, but the stage was up [...]
Tags:culture
Domingo en Merida
March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Look for me in Merida in the Yucatan on Sunday. Frommers says, “Each Sunday there’s a fair called Merida en Domingo. The main plaza and a section of Calle 60 from El Centro to Parque Santa Lucia close to traffic. Parents come with their children to stroll around and take in the scene. At 11am [...]
Contagious fun: Liverpool Street Subway Station Dance
March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
And the whole point was to infect people with dance: Liverpool Street Subway Station Dance, on January 15, 2009 and the creative impulse behind it Watch both videos!
Tags:culture·music·performance
Music for Dancers — 1st & 2nd Grade
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Lesson Plans
January was all about music, by way of percussion (see my previous post on Arts Worriers). In planning classes (dance, theatre, or music), I keep in mind the 3 categories of Vocabulary & Concepts, Skills, & Ensembles. It helps me keep track of my goals and our progress toward them. In a specific lesson, these [...]
Tags:culture·curriculum·curriculum integration·music·primary·teaching
Check in on the latest TED Talks…
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
TED2009 is underway, with a new flock of video talks & performances to come. It’s a good time to glimpse back at the wealth of ideas and perspectives already available. Personally, I could wish it was TEDD for Technology, Entertainment, Design, Dance. Dance is lamentably rare in this fascinating forum. Check out… Kenichi Ebina’s magic [...]
Cultural dances for kids from many cultures
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Cultural diversity? My classes provide a good visual definition: Students who were born or whose parents were born in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia. More who moved from Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, California. Some born here in Washington State. Students who speak English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cham, Tagalog, Amharic, Somalian, Cambodian, [...]