Dance and Astronomy - April 29

Toe-tapping Learning to the Stars

Monday, April 29, 2024

Today is Noise Awareness Day, Shrimp Scampi Day, Viral Video Day, Zipper Day, and International Dance Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Dance and Astronomy
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ON THIS DATE

• 1862 - New Orleans is captured by Union forces under David Farragut.
• 1945 - The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by U.S. troops.
• 1970 - U.S. and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia.
• 1992 - Rioting breaks out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of police officers charged with beating Rodney King.
• 2011 - Prince William and Catherine Middleton are married at Westminster Abbey.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1727 - French dancer Jean-Georges Noverre
• 1863 - Publisher William Randolph Hearst
• 1899 - Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington
• 1901 - Japanese emperor Hirohito
• 1933 - Poet and singer-songwriter Rod McKuen
• 1933 - Singer-songwriter Willie Nelson
• 1936 - Indian conductor Zubin Mehta
• 1951 - Race car driver Dale Earnhardt
• 1957 - British actor Daniel Day-Lewis
• 1970 - Actor Uma Thurman
• 1970 - Tennis player Andre Agassi

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Duke Ellington - Take the A Train - LISTEN
• Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind - LISTEN
• Ravi Shankar: Sitar Concerto No. 2 Conducted by Zubin Mehta, Anoushka Shankar, sitar - LISTEN
• Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing - LISTEN
• Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 

• Emily Dickinson - I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes
  

THEME:  Dance

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Dancing is Easy with Jason Derulo (2:33) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Happy Dance Tutorial (2:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Happy Dance with Celebs (2:03) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Paul Simon: Me and Julio Down by the School Yard (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Daniel Tiger - Freeze Dance  (1:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Peg + Cat - Chicken Dance Game - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Kids Create Dances including the Celebrating Monkey (1:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-12 - PBS Learning Media - Dance Arts Toolkit Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 4-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance Series - VIEW
• Grades: 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Ragamala Dance Company Blends Generations and Cultures (6:55) - VIEW
• Grades: 4-12 - NHPBS Video - What's Good - Dance (4:24) - VIEW
• Grades: 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Designers of the Dance (58:46) - VIEW

THEME:  Astronomy

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Galileo: Discovering Jupiter's Moons (3:04) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Galileo: Sun-Centered System (5:08) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Quest - Amateur Astronomers (9:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Astronomy (17:01) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - The Hubble Space Telescope (3:09) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Stargazers Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time Series - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Unladylike2020 - Williamina Fleming (9:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 8-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Astronomy's Biggest Stars (12:03) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Surviving the Dust Bowl
Monday, 4/29 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
They were called "Black Blizzards," dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For ten years beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into deserts. Disease, hardship, and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, steadfastly refusing to give up on the land and a way of life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Surviving the Dust Bowl Streaming Video

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET - Florencia En El Amazonas
Monday, 4/29 from 2-4 pm NH EXPLORE
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catan's 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of an opera diva who returns to her native South America to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus -- and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. GREAT PERFORMANCES  Streaming Video

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