EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

BALLET STAGE BY STAGE RESOURCES

Ballet Stage by Stage gives students grades K - 12 the chance to step into the daily world of a working dancer. Click below to download teacher resources for these performances at local schools. MORE INFORMATION

Teacher Curriculum Guide
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Classroom Booklet
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STUDENT PERFORMANCE SERIES STUDY GUIDES
AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS ARCHIVES

(Click to download PDFs)

2011/2012

Giselle: I’ve got the Wilis!
Thursday, March 1, 2012 / 11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Since the first version of Giselle performed in 1841, this ballet has deeply moved people of every decade in cultures all over the world. It is the world’s most beloved Romantic-era story ballet.

Download Giselle Study Guide HERE

Additional Resources: Listed below are links to Giselle features on the OBT Blog and YouTube sites. Short descriptions give you an idea of the content.

Giselle features on OBT's You Tube Channel

Giselle features on OBT's Blog

BACKSTAGE PASS: "Giselle" Costume Fittings
BACKSTAGE PASS: A Sneak Peek at the "Giselle" Set
(Please note: SPS performance will only include the sets from the second act)

Meet the Romantics—a 4-part series that offers a snapshot of European arts and culture that existed during the time Giselle debuted.

Meet the Romantics, Part I: Capital-R Romantic
Meet the Romantics, Part II: The Composers
Meet the Romantics, Part III: The Painters
Meet the Romantics, Part IV: The Authors
Opening Night of Giselle: Society, Current Events and Fashion –a blog post that asks the reader to imagine what it would have been like to see the first Giselle.

Hear! See! Imagine! Dance!
April 25, 26, 27, 2012 / 11:00 am - 12:00pm
Choreography derived from noticing the way things and animals sound and move.

Download Hear! See! Imagine! Dance! Study Guide HERE

Additional Resources: Listed below are links to additional resources to help you and your students gain insight into the three works being performed as part of the Hear! See! Imagine! Dance! program. Short descriptions give you an idea of the content.

DIVERTIMENTO NO. 15

Divertimento No. 15 in B-flat major, K. 287 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available on iTunes—a recording by Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra and Janos Rolla is only $5.94! HERE
Go to New York City Ballet's website for Divertimento No. 15. Click beside the treble clef to hear the music. See if you can hear and clap a steady rhythm that matches the beats of the music. The strong moment, when you feel like clapping, is count "one." If you count to three over and over again, clapping on count "one," you will be on the beat! This music has a rocking beat! HERE
See an excerpt danced by San Francisco Ballet HERE
Read about choreographer George Balanchine HERE

LAMBARENA

Read more about Lambarena in this study guide from 2009 HERE
Read about the choreographer, Val Caniparoli HERE

CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS: BRUSH STROKES IN THE WILD

Read about the choreographer, Anne Mueller HERE
Learn about the composer, Camille Saint-Saëns HERE
Click to listen to a complete recording of all fourteen movements by pianists Neal and Nancy O'Doan HERE and theSeattle Youth Symphony conducted by Vilem Sokol HERE!
Click to see a clip of Disney's Fantasia 2000. Disney animators created a dance for flamingos to the Finale from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals HERE
Check out a Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny version of Carnival of the Animals from 1976 complete with poetry by Ogden Nash HERE
Check out an excerpt of another version of Carnival of the Animals by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon HERE

2010/2011

GUIDE: Song & Dance - April 27 & 28, 2011
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: Accompanying handouts or slides

GUIDE: The Stravinsky Project - March 3, 2011
WORD JUMBLE: The Stravinsky Project - March 3, 2011

GUIDE: The Sleeping Beauty - October 14, 2010

pas de deux coloring page.pdf

Sleeping Beauty Mime.pdf

2009/2010

GUIDE: Emerald Retrospective - October 15, 2009
GUIDE: Duets - April 27, 28 & 29, 2010

2008/2009

GUIDE: Swan Lake - 10/16/08
Accompanying Overhead Transparencies FOR 10/16/08

GUIDE: Lambarena - 2/26/09
Accompanying Lesson Plan: "Weaving the Elements of Lambarena"

GUIDE: Left Unsaid - 4/23 & 4/24

2007/2008

GUIDE: The Germanic Lands - 10/18/07
GUIDE: France - 2/28/08 / Transparencies
GUIDE: America - 4/24/08 & 4/25/08

2006/2007

GUIDE: Fall 2006
GUIDE: Winter 2007
GUIDE: Spring 2007

CARTES-DE-VISITE

In the 1860s and 1870s, the ballet stars of the Paris Opera were the Parisian celebrities of their day. Photographs were just beginning to be available as popular culture, and fans collected cartes-de-visite of dancers, similar to the way that people today collect trading cards of sports stars. The cartes-de-visite below may be downloaded, printed and cut into individual cards for your students.

Alison Roper & Artur Sultanov

Javier Ubell

Ronnie Underwood, Alison Roper, Yuka Iino & Kathi Martuza

Grace Shibley & Lucas Threefoot

ARTICLES

Dancin' in the Rain: A Bit of Portland Dance History - 1900 to 1954
By Carol Shults and Martha Ullman West ©2000 Download

A Century of Dance in Portland Download
(OBT playbill articles from the 1996/97 season)
By Carol Shults, OBT Historian

BOOK & MEDIA RESOURCES

Many thanks to All Classical 89.9 radio and Classical Millennium for their recommendations. All books and dvds are available through Multnomah County Library. All cds and dvds are available at Classical Millennium.

ABOUT BALLET

If you’re looking for good introductory books about ballet:
Ballet: An Illustrated History, Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
The Magic of Dance, Margot Fonteyn

ABOUT GEORGE BALANCHINE

BOOKS
Balanchine: A Biography, Bernard Taper
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker, Arlene Croce

DVDs
Choreography by Balanchine
New York City Ballet/Dance in America

BALANCHINE
A Two-part Biography from
Great Performances/American Masters

ABOUT JEROME ROBBINS

BOOK Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance, Deborah Jowitt

WEBSITES FOR EDUCATORS

National Dance Education Organization
www.ndeo.org

The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) is an autonomous non-profit organization dedicated to promoting standards of excellence in dance education by providing the dance artist and the dance educator a network of resources and support, a base for advocacy, and access to programs and projects that focus on the importance of dance in the human experience.

The Kennedy Center ARTSEDGE
www.artsedge.org

ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.

Mathmatics and Dance:
www.mathdance.org

Physical Education and Dance:
www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson114.shtml
(Scroll down to "In the Groove")

Oregon Alliance for Arts Education:
www.arts4learning.org

Dance Education Resources:
www.artslynx.org/dance/education.htm

Minds in Motion
www.mindsinmotion.org/courses.html

World Wide Arts Resources Corporation
www.wwar.com