October’s Fine Arts Mini Experience (FAME) was taught during the week of October 21st- 24th and featured the French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir’s “Moulin de la Galette” and the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr.’s waltz, “The Blue Danube”.
Students reviewed the concept of Impressionism, and studied the colors, textures, light and shadow evident in Renoir’s sun dappled scene of “The Pancake Mill” dance hall in Paris. They also learned about Renoir’s decades long crippling case of arthritis, which left him unable to even hold paint brushes with out constant help.
Students listened and danced to the distinctive ¾ time rhythm of waltz in this lesson. They got to watch a video of Gonzo’s chickens singing in time to the Blue Danube, and they were asked to pick out the one, two , three time of different waltzes as well.
While listening to Strauss’s music, students were instructed in how to dance the waltz, and all of them got to try out a few steps in time to the sweeping Viennese style of dance.
Students reviewed the concept of Impressionism, and studied the colors, textures, light and shadow evident in Renoir’s sun dappled scene of “The Pancake Mill” dance hall in Paris. They also learned about Renoir’s decades long crippling case of arthritis, which left him unable to even hold paint brushes with out constant help.
Students listened and danced to the distinctive ¾ time rhythm of waltz in this lesson. They got to watch a video of Gonzo’s chickens singing in time to the Blue Danube, and they were asked to pick out the one, two , three time of different waltzes as well.
While listening to Strauss’s music, students were instructed in how to dance the waltz, and all of them got to try out a few steps in time to the sweeping Viennese style of dance.