Here are some resources to start you rolling on your path to arts integration as one of your own approaches to teaching! – RB
Randy Barron and Kathleen Kingsley’s arts education website (under construction; will contain materials for download by teachers and teaching artists; clicking this link will return you to the OwlDancer.net site for now).
An autonomous non-profit organization dedicated to promoting standards of excellence in dance education. NDEO provides the dance artist, educator and administrator a network of resources and support.
Maintained by the Utah Education Network, ThemePark is the place to find Internet resources organized around broad-based themes.
Titles include Ritual, Bones, Totem
These CDs are through-composed, with a slow warm-up leading to high energy and ending with a cool-down. Each individual cut has its own flavor or mood, and since both heartbeat and breath rhythms are clear, it is impossible to be “off” the music!
Eric Chappelle’s response to many requests by dance teachers for recordings of his dance accompaniment work. The majority of pieces feature contrasts in tempo, texture and other music elements which correspond to dance elements
Jones’s musical creations are based upon his many years of work as pianist, composer, teacher, and performer in the field of modern dance. The music is a blending of innovative rhythms with open and inventive harmonic progressions
Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute. Originally trained in classical trumpet and music theory, Nakai was given a traditional cedar wood flute as a gift and challenged to see what he could do with it
