Tap Dancing

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Monday, May 25, 2020

Today is Memorial Day, National Tap Dance Day, Towel Day ( celebrated by carrying a towel in honor of author Douglas Adams), and Geek Pride Day. The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia.on this date in 1787. Star Wars was released on this date in 1977. Today is the birthday od Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878), and  Muppeteer Frank Oz (1944)

Theme: U.S. Constitution and Tap Dancing

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -Savion Glover Rhymes and Taps - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Debut - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Tap Dancing - VIEW
• Grades 3-8- PBS Kids - All About the Holidays - Memorial Day -VIEW
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia -DanceSense: Tap and Percussive Dance -VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - NYC Arts - Profile of Ayodele Casel - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Jump Rope and Tap Dance Routine in "Shaking the Blues Away- VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Black Journal- Savion Glover - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The body becomes music when this dancer taps tradition
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• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Articulate - Tap Into America - VIEW

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Black Hole Apocalypse
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Black Hole Universe
• 2-4 pm NH WORLD - Chasing The Moon: American Experience
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD -  Latino Americans - Peril and Promise
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Independent Lens - Eating Up Easter

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