Boal is a play written and performed by high school students from the Central Academy of Technology and Arts in Monroe, North Carolina. Boal brings a variety of social issues to the stage, focusing on racism and Islamophobia.

The play was inspired by Augusto Boal, a Brazilian theater director, writer, and politician. Boal was the founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical group dedicated to creating political change.

The performance was taped as part of the High School Theatre Festival during the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.

Find the theme of a story by acting it out!

Take out your magnifying glass detectives-in-training, because you’re about to solve The Case of the Missing Theme. By acting out a story with Carmen and Detective J, you will remember important clues. These clues will help you find the story’s theme!

Learning Objective: Infer the theme of a work, distinguishing theme from topic.

Sharah Meservy demonstrates how to introduce students to improvisation in the classroom using a picture book of Little Red Riding Hood.

Penny Caywood demonstrates a classroom activity using tableau to explore what characters want.

Penny Caywood demonstrates a classroom activity where students explore character personalities through voice and gesture.

¡Aprende sobre la fuerza y el movimiento a través de una canción y un baile de los increíbles hermanos Gregory!

¡La Sra. Gravedad es la anfitriona del más increíble espectáculo de juegos en el patio de recreo de COMO SE MUEVEN LAS COSAS! Con un poco de ayuda de sus amigos musicales, los hermanos Gregory, aprenderás una canción sobre la fuerza y el movimiento que te ayudará a ganar el juego.

Objetivo de Aprendizaje: demuestre y observe cómo la posición y el movimiento pueden cambiar al empujar y jalar objetos.

After reading "The Tempest" or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.

Music educator Michelle Lewis teaches her students how to create vodcast music lessons. Lewis hopes that their vodcast YouTube channel will help students in schools without a music program learn music concepts.

Join Ririe Woodbury Dance Company and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as we dance, doodle, and discover the dynamic world of contemporary art and dance! Creative Leaps guides K-6 students on a diverse journey to react and respond to amazing works of performing and visual art. Through an exploration of storytelling, elements, and the similarities and differences between art forms, students will be empowered to creatively and actively express their own ideas and feelings about the world around them and learn that sources of inspiration can be found everywhere.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES:
STUDENTS WILL...
• Explore the basic elements of expression that contemporary visual and performing art are built on
• Discover similarities and differences of contemporary dance and visual art
• Learn that contemporary art is a way to actively express and respond to ideas, feelings, and topics that are present in our world today and represents diverse voices and backgrounds
• Be creative and use art to express themselves through various activities
• Understand that artists find inspiration through many different forms (for example - other works of art, human body and movement, the place or the environment the artist is in, or what is going on in the world)
• Observe and learn about contemporary artists as well as many forms of contemporary art in our own community and other communities (dance, sculpture, stop-motion film, painting, mural, representative work, and abstract work)

The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Cymbeline" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.

Watch the clip, Bomba or Baseball, from Alma's Way to spark conversations about dancing and not getting things right on the first try. Then, introduce the activity to help students practice developing their coordination skills and work to strengthen their large muscles.

NOTE: The PDF document assets and Support Materials are also available in Spanish.

Sixteen dancers from across the country, representing a range of dance styles, move as one being, with each dancer's moves flowing naturally into the next. Poet Chinaka Hodge narrates each dancer’s steps from all around the United States as we shelter-in-place. Inspired by Mitchell Rose's Exquisite Corps chain letter, each dancer begins in the last pose of the dancer before passing the movement.

If Cities Could Dance is a Webby Award-winning video series featuring dancers from cities across the United States. Step into the shoes of dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance.

Extension Project: Give your middle and high school students the opportunity to create and publish original dance videos with an accompanying artist statement with the KQED Youth Media Challenge: If Schools Could Dance.

Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.

In this lesson, students will be asked to read a grade level appropriate story and make a digital storyboard that includes the basic elements of the story. These elements are: characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  They will illustrate the key elements of the story and use Apple Keynote to create and present a digital slideshow retelling of the story. 

Jeromy and Lyndy Franklin Smith describe their roles in the Lexington Theatre Company. Jeromy, the producing director, focuses on logistics, contracts, and budgets. Lyndy, the artistic director, concentrates on auditions and casting, public relations, and marketing. When a show is in production, the two share directing duties. Collaboration with each other and their staff makes for a successful show.

Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Mel is learning to fly and perseveres until she is successful.

Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end.