Tap Dancing
Step-Heel and Heel-Step Learning
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Today is National Tap Dance Day, Towel Day ( celebrated by carrying a towel in honor of author Douglas Adams), National Brown-Bag-It Day, National Wine Day, and Geek Pride Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Tap Dancing
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ON THIS DATE
- 240 BC - First recorded passage of Halley's Comet.
- 1787- The Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
- 1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
- 1925 - John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
- 1953 - KHUT located at the University of Houston begins broadcasting as the first public TV station.
- 1961 - President John F. Kennedy announces, before a joint session of the Congress, that the U.S. will put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
- 1977 - Star Wars is released.
- 2020- George Floyd is murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest.
- 1803 - Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1878 - Dancer and actor Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
- 1908 - Poet Theodore Roethke
- 1929 - Opera singer Beverly Sills
- 1932 - Celtics basketball player and coach K. C. Jones
- 1939 - English actor Ian McKellen
- 1944 - Muppeteer Frank Oz
- 1963 - Actor, producer, and screenwriter Mike Myers
- 1970 - Actor Octavia Spencer
Beverly Sills -
HMS Pinafore -
The Simpsons - Sideshow Bob - HMS Pinafore -
- 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 K-12 - NHPBS 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
VIEW - Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Articulate - Tap Into America - VIEW
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- 10-10:30 am NH WORLD - FILMS BYKIDS
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- 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Clinton: American Experience
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- 8-9 pm NHPBS - Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer - Data
- 8-9 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Hamtramck, USA
- 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
- 10-11 pm NHPBS - Race Matters: America After George Floyd
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