The performance takes place at Belding Theater, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Avenue, Hartford.
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 10:00-11:30am
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We hope that students will come away from the 'Share the Magic' performance knowing more about the dance art, its capacity to encompass human emotion, and to be able to actively reflect on and produce work based on the connections they make with the overall society in which they live.
Now in its sixth season, the 'Share the Magic' performance attended by students in grades 2-6 is the same: the full-length ballet, 'Cinderella,' condensed to 75 minutes. The narration provided breaks down the action and the characters in the story ballet and enables students to connect with their individual movements and relationships within the plot. Artistic Director Brett Raphael also describes the creative process of making the ballet and the production process involving lighting designers, costume designers, stagehands, and rehearsal assistants. At the close, students and educators have an opportunity to question the principal dancers about the preparation necessary to perform a leading role and other aspects of being a full-time professional dancer.
Grade 2
Grade 2: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #2:
Recount stories, including fables and folktales
from diverse cultures, and determine their central
message, lesson, or moral
Grade 2: Reading Standards for Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #9: Compare and contrast two or more versions
of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by
different authors or from different cultures.
Grade 2: Dance: Connecting: Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
b. Respond to a dance work using an inquiry-based set of
questions (for example, See, Think, Wonder). Create movement using ideas from responses and explain how certain movements express a specific idea.
Grade 3
Grade 3: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #2:
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and
myths from diverse cultures; determine the
central message, lesson, or moral and explain
how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Grade 3: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3:
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
Grade 3: Dance: Connecting: Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
b. Ask and research a question about a key aspect of a dance that communicates a perspective about an issue or event. Explore the key aspect through movement. Share movements and describe how the movements help to remember or discover new qualities in these key aspects. Communicate the new learning in oral, written, or movement form.
Grade 4
Grade 4: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3:
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event
in a story or drama, drawing on specific details
in the text (e.g., a character"s thoughts, words, or actions).
Grade 4: Reading Standards for Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #7: Make connections between the text of a story
or drama and a visual or oral presentation of
the text, identifying where each version reflects
specific descriptions and directions in the text.
Grade 4: Dance: Connecting: Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
a.Relate the main idea or content in a dance to other experiences. Explain how the main idea of a dance is similar to or different from one"s own experiences, relationships, ideas or perspectives.
Grade 4: Dance: Connecting: Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
b. Respond to a dance work using an inquiry-based set of questions (for example, See, Think, Wonder). Create movement using ideas from responses and explain how certain movements express a specific idea.
