OREGON BALLET THEATRE
2011-2012 Season

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

Ballet Stage By Stage Curriculum Guide
Teacher Curriculum Guide
DOWNLOAD

Ballet Stage By Stage Classroom Booklet
Classroom Booklet
DOWNLOAD


STUDENT PERFORMANCE SERIES STUDY GUIDES
AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
ARCHIVES

 

(Click to download PDFs)

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

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.


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

 

Education & Outreach

Kasandra Gruener, MA
Director of Education & Outreach
503.227.0977
outreach@obt.org

Sign up for an OBT Account to receive email updates. Under "Edit email preferences" check the "Outreach News: Youth Programs" box.

MY ACCOUNT

BALLET STAGE BY STAGE RESOURCES

SPS CURRICULUM ARCHIVES

ARTICLES

BOOK & MEDIA RESOURCES

WEBSITES FOR EDUCATORS

OTHER RESOURCES:

Classical Millennium
www.musicmillennium.com

3144 E Burnside St
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 231-8909

Multnomah County Library
www.multcolib.org

 

OBT /
CAN National Endowment for the Arts Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Cultural Trust Regional Arts & Culture Council Work for Art