Dance and Astronomy - April 29

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Today is 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

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

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339