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Learn more about this new Kennedy Center musical about a positively purple 10th birthday party and how two very different girls learn to understand each other.
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A Dancer's Journal: Martha Graham
This Web site, "A Dancer's Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham" is a multimedia exploration designed for students in grades 5-12. |
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AOI: African Odyssey Interactive
A special collaboration between the Kennedy Center's Office of International Programming and ARTSEDGE, this site was developed in support of a four-year "African Odyssey" festival of the performing, visual, and literary arts of sub-Saharan Africa. Begun in 1996, the site is now in archive form, presenting event profiles for over 20 of the artists and programs that appeared over the run of the festival.
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Art of the Explosion
This multimedia exploration, designed for grades 9-12, explores the science and art of pyrotechnics and chronicles the making of Cai’s Tornado: Explosion Project for the Kennedy Center.
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Blues Journey
Journey with us as we trace the blues from its early beginnings in southern American fields to its global impact on music today. Through informative interviews and a wealth of music clips, you'll learn the ins and outs of blues music and find out how the history of the blues has been brought to life on stage at the Kennedy Center.
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Bodies in Motion
How have artists, through the centuries, captured the body - particularly the body in motion?
Through richly annotated paintings, sculptures, and photographs, students will discover the technical and creative advances which drove artistic renderings of the moving body – from the mathematical precision that formed the basis of Egyptian figures, to the complex systems and innovations at work in the art of the Hellenistic Greeks, to the dynamic surfaces of the Modern era.
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Capturing Nureyev: Jamie Wyeth Paints the Dancer
Watch the fascinating life of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev unfold through the portraits of Jamie Wyeth. When American artist Wyeth met Nureyev in 1977, the dancer’s charismatic personality and immense talent immediately captivated him. Thus began a remarkable friendship, resulting in over 35 paintings and drawings of Nureyev. Explore a sampling of these incredible works—many of which are presented online for the first time.
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Celebrating Sondheim
Enter the complex and lyrical world of Stephen Sondheim, one of the most celebrated composers of the American musical theater.
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City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater
City Dionysia: The Ancient Roots of Modern Theater is an engaging Web interactive focused on the historical development of theater in Ancient Greece. Designed to support high school studies of theater, literature and world history, the site leads students though the development of Ancient ideas and contemporary theater practice, then on to write and stage their own original play while demonstrating an understanding of the rules and structure of Greek tragedy.
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Community PhotoWorks
Armed with cameras, seventh grade students from Mark Twain Middle School in Los Angeles, CA ventured out in their communities and came back to school with creative compositions. This online gallery displays the students’ photographic and literary compositions and offers a thorough method of analyzing photography that you can apply to virtually any classroom.
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Culture Connect
Culture Connect is an interactive site supporting the Cultural Visitors Program (developed in partnership with Kennedy Center Education Department and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs).
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Drop Me Off in Harlem
Drop Me Off in Harlem explores the vibrant, complex, and unique moment in time that was the Harlem Renaissance.
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Festival of China Video Highlights
This series, from the archives of the Kennedy Center's Education Department, brings you a glimpse of the history and diversity of China's performing arts.
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Festival of Japan Video Highlights
This is your passport to the arts and culture of Japan as experienced through the Kennedy Center's Japan! culture + hyperculture festival (February 2008).
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Gift of the Indus
Immerse your students in the arts and culture of Pakistan. This Web site, designed for high school students, introduces students to the rich traditions and history of this South Asian country and its people through videos, audio clips, virtual galleries, and a teen blog.
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Perfect Pitch
Batter up! This multimedia exploration introduces students to the most enduring all-stars of the orchestra: the instruments.
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Playing with Shadows
Discover the secrets behind the art of shadow puppetry in this multimedia exploration, designed for grades 5-8, which explores this age-old art form through animations, videos, interactive activities, and more.
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Soundscapes: The Arab World
Soundscapes: The Arab World is a Web interactive that allows students to mix sounds (beats, environment, instrument, music and voice) from the Arab World to create unique audio soundscapes.
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Video Tours for Kids
Coming to the Kennedy Center? Or just wondering what was there? ARTSEDGE, the Center’s educational media program, takes you in and around the building in this video series designed for kids and families.
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