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2009/10 Program Schedule
- 101. Theater Basics for Teachers (Part 1)
- What makes theater magical? This overview of set design, lighting, sound, costumes, actors, and acting in theater includes broad ideas and questions to use as classroom discussion starters.
- 102. Theater Basics for Teachers (Part 2)
- This overview of the history of theater, from ancient Greece to modern Broadway, may also be shown to students. Topics include commedia dell'arte, the Shakespearean stage, and an update on current American theater. Clips from works by Arthur Miller, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, and Kentuckians Marsha Norman and George C. Wolfe are featured.
- 103. Theater Basics for Students (Part 1)
- Performance clips from {A+ show students what to look for in theater and demonstrate acting techniques and the importance of movement, gesture, diction, and improvisation.
- 104. Theater Basics for Students (Part 2)
- Excerpts from a student production of The Crucible and interviews with the participants take students behind the scenes to see how staging, scenery, props, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup come together.
- 105. Dance Basics for Teachers
- Ideas for how to talk to students about dance and a suggested classroom project, plus a brief history of ballet and specific background information on Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, which is featured in the student dance program.
- 106. Dance Basics for Students
- Elements of dance—space, time, and force; how to watch dance; and a complete performance of Act 2 of The Nutcracker, bracketed by a discussion of how dancers approach a work and how two different choreographers can interpret the same story in very different ways.
- 107. Music Basics for Teachers
- Music can be approached in a wide variety of ways: intellectually, emotionally, or even comparatively with a work of art. Another way to listen is to explore the thoughts of a great composer such as Bach. A third way to listen is through a historical perspective. This segment examines the musical "isms."
- 108. Music Basics for Students
- Basic elements of music—melody, harmony, tempo, rhythm, timbre, dynamics; more tools of the musician—motif, cadence, phrases, improvisation, call and response; and a review of all elements.
- 109. Visual Arts Basics for Teachers
- This teacher tape is dedicated to the art of questioning. What is the purpose of a given piece of art? What was the artist's intent? Questions to ask a painter are followed by an interview with Lexington artist Carolyn Hisel. A final question: How do the visual arts parallel, or intersect with, other arts?
- 110. Visual Arts Basics for Students
- Covers elements of art and tools of the artist. Definitions and discussions of each of the elements of art use artists from Kentucky's Humanities Reference Chart as examples. A segment on principles of design shows ways Goya used these principles in The Third of May. "Masterworks" discusses 10 paintings, focusing on how each fit into the culture of its time. Finally, students learn how to apply what they've learned by using the acronym SAGE: See, analyze, guess about, and evaluate any painting.
- 111. Class Connections: Medieval and Renaissance (Part 1)
- Origins of Gothic architecture, Hildegard of Bingen, Chartres Cathedral, Dante and The Inferno, introduction to the Renaissance.
- 112. Class Connections: Medieval and Renaissance (Part 2)
- Giotto and Michelangelo.
- 113. Class Connections: World Religions (Part 1)
- Rabbi Jon Adland; Genesis; the three Daves.
- 114. Class Connections: World Religions (Part 2)
- The Church of Hagia Sophia; Dome of the Rock; Islamic architecture; the Silk Road.
- 201. Class Connections: The African Cultural Root (Part 1)
- Introduction to Africa; African drummer; African dance.
- 202. Class Connections: The African Cultural Root (Part 2)
- African visual art; the modern primitives.
- 203. Class Connections: Ancient Civilizations (Part 1)
- Introduction to Gilgamesh; daily life in ancient Egypt; Giza pyramids; I.M. Pei (the modern pyramid).
- 204. Class Connections: Ancient Civilizations (Part 2)
- American Indian culture.
- 205. Class Connections: Greece and Rome (Part 1)
- Classical architecture; Greek sculpture; later Greek masterpieces.
- 206. Class Connections: Greece and Rome (Part 2)
- Roman portraiture and architecture.
- 207. Broadcast 1
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- 208. Broadcast 2
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- 210. Broadcast 2
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- 301. Class Connections: Realism Through 20th Century (Part 1)
- Monet and Debussy; Frank Lloyd Wright; kabuki; Van Gogh.
- 302. Class Connections: Realism Through 20th Century (Part 2)
- The Ballet Russe; Dorothea Lange; Woody Guthrie; Georgia O'Keeffe.
- 303. Class Connections: Baroque-Neoclassic-Romantic (Part 1)
- Introduction to the Baroque era; Caravaggio; Shakespeare's greatest hits; Rubens and Rembrandt; Bach.
- 304. Class Connections: Baroque-Neoclassic-Romantic (Part 2)
- Dance at the court of Louis XIV; the Palace of Versailles; Monticello; Goya.
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