Performing Arts

Employees in the Performing Arts entertain audiences either in live appearances or in recorded or broadcast presentations. The Performing Arts include music, drama, dance, standup comedy, and motion pictures. Workers who support performances behind the scenes—such as screenwriters, composers, choreographers, directors, stagehands, makeup artists, and others—are included in the Performing Arts field.
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Art and Physics | Artopia
Art and Physics | Artopia

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Wagoner describes Leonard Shlain’s theory of art and physics and how it relates to his own work.
Influence of the Family | Artopia
Influence of the Family | Artopia

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Wagoner’s family provided him with a stable anchor that helped him go forward and explore his passion.
Dance Studio | Artopia
Dance Studio | Artopia

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis offers a tour of her studio in...
Start a Dance | Artopia
Start a Dance | Artopia

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dan Wagoner encourages young people to explore dancing by studying movements and the anatomy of the body.
Success | Artopia
Success | Artopia

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis thinks of unsuccessful...
Teamwork | Artopia
Teamwork | Artopia

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Weis explains how she decides who to work with and how to make the most out of every collaborator’s individual strengths.
Video Process | Artopia
Video Process | Artopia

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Cameras are an important part of Weis’s work. Here, she explains the technology and process behind her work.
Dan Wagoner: History | Artopia
Dan Wagoner: History | Artopia

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Wagoner explains his personal history with dance, which began when he was a young boy in West Virginia.
Movie Theater | Eye Wonder
Movie Theater | Eye Wonder

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Eye Wonder team investigates a movie theater. D.V. goes behind the scenes to see how film is loaded and rolled, and all of the different equipment that brings a movie to the screen.