Are you incorporating movement activities in your classroom? Encourage your students to warm up with these fun and simple activities.

Now that you're all warmed up, learn ballet steps depicted in Edgar Degas's sketchbook.

This video was developed in conjunction with the lesson plan The Art and Depiction of Dance.

Valaria Tatera and Dan Vaughn, from Artists Working in Education (AWE), held a series of workshops with students from Lafollette School centered around Dave the Potter. The students studied Dave and his work, creating haikus based on Dave's poetry. This video, created by Kim Miller, captures the students reading their poems in front of Dave Drake's pot at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

To create Divining Meteorology, Lamson reanimated a former communications tower by transforming it into an instrument. Originally designed to withstand the trials of nature, this monumental tower was relocated from the Missouri countryside to the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion and re-engineered to fit inside the space, as if it had collapsed into itself.

Temple dances involve refined, stylized motions of daily life as a gift to visiting deities during festivals. Enchanting music, splendid costumes, and exquisite movements are pleasurable to both divine guests and village audiences. Celebrate the opening of the Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance exhibition (on view at the Asian Art Museum from February 25-September 11, 2011) with an auspicious performance of dance and music by ensemble Gadung Kasturi.

Meg Stuart talks about improvisation, the role of an active audience, and the relationship of performers to each other on stage (and table). Music: Arms Saloon by Dan Deacon, licensed under Creative Commons (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Deacon/Twacky_Cats/Arms_Saloon)

San Francisco-based Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG), known for melding dance with theater, performs Wonderboy, a recent work created by artistic director Joe Goode in collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist, with music by singer/violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist/drummer Matthias Bossi. Wonderboy is an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero isolated by his gift of sensitivity. JGPG also performs 29 Effeminate Gestures, a signature 12-minute dance solo masterpiece.

San Francisco-based Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG), known for melding dance with theater, performs Wonderboy, a recent work created by artistic director Joe Goode in collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist, with music by singer/violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist/drummer Matthias Bossi. Wonderboy is an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero isolated by his gift of sensitivity. JGPG also performs 29 Effeminate Gestures, a signature 12-minute dance solo masterpiece.

Arjuna’s Meditation: An excerpt from the Mahabharata, performed by Shadowmaster I Wayan Nartha.