Tap Dancing - May 25

Saturday, May 25, 2024

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.

BIRTHDAYS

• 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

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Beverly Sills - Una Voce Poco Fa!! - LISTEN
• HMS Pinafore - When I Was a Lad - LISTEN
• The Simpsons - Sideshow Bob - HMS Pinafore - LISTEN
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mister Bojangles - LISTEN
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Mister Bojangles - LISTEN

THEME:  Tap Dancing

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -Savion Glover Rhymes and Taps (2:02) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Debut (1:49) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Tap Dancing (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DanceSense: Tap and Percussive Dance (14:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - NYC Arts - Profile of Ayodele Casel (28:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Jump Rope and Tap Dance Routine in "Shaking the Blues Away (1:36)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Black Journal- Savion Glover (11:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The Body Becomes Music When This Dancer Taps Tradition (6:59) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Articulate - Tap Into America (8:21) - VIEW

WATCH

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

ARMED WITH LANGUAGE 
Saturday, 5/25 from 12-1 pm NH WORLD
The story of a little-known military intelligence school in Minnesota that played a pivotal role in ending World War II. The institution trained more than 6,000 Japanese Americans, or Nisei, to be translators, interrogators, and Japanese military specialists. After decades of being classified, the story of their courage, sacrifice, and valor is finally being told.

HER WAR, HER STORY: WORLD WAR II
Saturday, 5/25 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Explore the stories of women caught up in World War II, from the American Home Front to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland.

AMERICAN MASTERS - Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Saturday, 5/25 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
The story of the author whose first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was published to great commercial and critical success. With the blockbuster film adaption that followed as well as additional best-selling novels, librettos, short stories, and memoirs, Tan firmly established herself as one of the most prominent and respected American literary voices working today. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

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