Design and Perform a Rhythmic Routine Teacher Resources

"I cannot dance opon my Toes," Emily Dickinson writes, "no man instructed me." Still, Dickinson makes the white page of the poem her performance space. In this video [5:36] excerpted from Poetry in America, an ensemble of interpreters do...

An interview with Evelyn Cisneros and with the choreographer of a dance, "Lambarena," created especially for her. In it, Cisneros discusses why she started dance, her early training, and the work that went into "Lambarena."

The ArtsJournal website provides a daily summary of arts and cultural journalism from the English-language press around the world, with links to complete articles for further reading. The dance page collects links on a wide range of...

Marco Tempest uses charming stagecraft to demo EDI, the multi-purpose robot designed to work very closely with humans. Less a magic trick than an intricately choreographed performance, Tempest shows off the robot's sensing technology,...

Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom. They remain an affirmation of identity and independence. In this electric...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Pearl Primus, an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and teacher whose performance work drew on the African American experience and on her research in Africa and the Caribbean.

In this lesson plan, student groups are assigned word problems. They are tasked with solving their problems using dance and then choreographing answers to their problems. These are performed for the class and the associations made by the...

In this lesson, student groups are assigned word problems that require order of operations to be solved. They solve their problems using math and then choreograph an answer to their problems that incorporates the order of operations....