- Grade Levels:
- Primary-8
- Length:
- 30 minutes
- Taping Rights:
- Unlimited
- MARC Record:
- Downloadable
- Teaching Materials:
- See Below
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In this KET-produced series, outstanding performers teach traditional Appalachian, African-American, and Native American dances and play party games. The activities, some centuries old, are “community dances” involving patterns of singing, dancing, poetry, mimicry, and play-acting. Each program features step-by-step instructions as well as a complete performance of the game or dance demonstrated by students. An interview segment with the performer gives the historical and cultural contexts of the dance.
Dancing Threads gives young people a multicultural and historical perspective, encouraging them to value their own and other cultural traditions. Additional background information is provided in the extensive teacher’s guide.
Programs 2 and 3 of this series are available online in the KET EncycloMedia.
Program of Studies
Dance: Structure in the Arts, Humanity in the Arts, Purposes for Creating the Arts, Processes in the Arts, Interrelationships Among the Arts
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