Storytelling Through the Art Dance offers simple 3-part lessons. Each lesson can be delivered within a 45-minute block, leaving time for additional student questions, extensions, and reflections with opportunities to extend, enrich, and remediate
The Nutcracker has been a beloved Christmastime tradition around the world for many years.
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Using Ballet Des Moines’ production of Jekyll and Hyde as inspiration, this three-part unit explores what it means for opposing ideas, feelings or identities to exist simultaneously. Students will use tableaux (frozen body statues), spoken poetry and collage-making to investigate their own dualities and how opposing ideas exist together in the world.
Ballet Des Moines’ 2022 production of Salem portrayed the social factors that caused the events of the Salem witch trials. In this three-part lesson, students will actively explore these ideas through theater games and visual thinking.
The enchanting nighttime forest inspired Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. During this three-part lesson, students will explore the science of how the forest changes at night through dance and poetry.
