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THEATER

All in the Family: Gypsy Snider

This Educator Guide traces the history of the circus and acrobatic performance.
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Educational Tool: Approaching Your Bias

This Educational Tool provides tips for facing the inherent challenges of teaching about contemporary artists and their work.
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Educational Tool: Arts Assessment

This educational tool describes the role of assessment in a standards-based visual and performing arts classroom. This document also provides several options for substantive forms of assessment in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Arts Classroom Tips

This educational tool provides classroom management tips, teaching strategies, and pedagogies for classrooms dedicated to Visual Arts, Music, Dance, and/or Theater.
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Educational Tool: Connections, Relations and Applications

This educational tool provides direction for making connections between the various arts disciplines, between the arts and other subject areas, and careers in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Developing Arts Programs

This educational tool is a comprehensive list of foundations and organizations offering funding for arts education programs in Northern California.
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Educational Tool: Literacy-Based Instructional Strategies

This Educational Tool provides literacy-based instructional strategies that may be used in conjunction with arts media screenings in the classroom.
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Educational Tool: Media Tips

This Educational Tool provides techniques for using Spark in the classroom including critical viewing tips, media production terms and concepts, and talking points about media production and media literacy.
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Educational Tool: Multiple Intelligences

This Educational Tool describes Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how it relates to Spark's educational programming and resources.
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Educational Tool: Theater Vocabulary

This document is a comprehensive vocabulary list related to Theater.
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First Person Narratives: Tamalpais High School's Conservatory Theater Ensemble

This Educator Guide explores the history of documentary theatre.
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Forbidden Territory: Traveling Jewish Theatre

This Educator Guide addresses collaborative theatre, political theatre, and the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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Fusion: Calligraphy of Thought

This Educator Guide addresses the history of Muslim women in entertainment and the history of Hip-Hop.
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Fusion: Sha Sha Higby

This Educator Guide explores traditions of pageantry and theatre, including the masquerade of the Venetian Carnevale, African tribal dancing, Japanese Noh theater and Kabuki, and Commedia dell'Arte.
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History Retold: Berkeley Repertory Theatre's "The People's Temple"

This Educator Guide addresses the history of the Peoples Temple.
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Home, Sweet Home: headRush

This Educator Guide is about the exploration and history of experimental, political theater and performance art.
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Home, Sweet Home: Lorraine Hansberry Theatre

This Educator Guide is about the history of drumming, street performers, and African American musical theater.
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Kids on Stage: Marsh Youth Theater

This Educator Guide is about the history of children's theatre in the US.
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Let's Talk Politics: David Edgar

Let's Talk Politics: Berkeley Repertory Theatre

This Educator Guide explores the history of political activism and politicial theatre in the UK and the US.
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Looking East: Theatre of Yugen

This Educator Guide addresses fusion in theatrical productions, the traditions of Japanese Noh, and the unique techniques employed by Theatre of Yugen to achieve their signature style.
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Opening Nights: Teatro Visión

This Educator Guide offers activities related to Latino/Chicano Theatre, the internment of the Japanese, and theatre.
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Page to Stage: California Shakespeare Theater

This Educator Guide addresses the political nature of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and the contemporary staging.
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Solo Acts: Derique

This Educator Guide introduces educators to Hambone, explores the evolution of this traditional art form from the days of slavery through today, as well as other forms of historical African American performance traditions.
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Spark 507: Philip Kan Gotanda

This Educator Guide includes writing, hands-on, and discussion activties in which students will learn about the process of theater writing and the making of Philip Kan Gotanda's play "After the War."
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Spark 508: Carlos Baron

This Educator Guide will enable students to learn about the political history of Chile and participate in poetry writing and theater-based activities.
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Spark 514: San Francisco Running Crew

This Educator Guide includes creative, hands-on activities related to technical theater.
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Spark 609: The Bonsetter's Daughter

Introduce students to the world premier of a new American Opera created by composer Stewart Wallace and acclaimed author, Amy Tan. This educator guide explores the process of collaboration, and the hisory of both Chinese and Western operatic traditions.
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Spark 707: Kitka

This Educator Guide provides historical information about Eastern European vocal traditions and includes music-related lessons for the classroom.
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Telling Stories: Larry Reed

This Educator Guide explores the history of Balinese shadowpuppetry, Wayang Kulit and Reed's innovations.
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Telling Stories: Marc Bamuthi Joseph

This Educator Guide addresses spoken word, autobiography, and performance art.
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The Art of Improvisation: 3 For All

This Educator Guide addresses improvisation as a technique for developing thinking and language skills.
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The Art of Interpretation: A.C.T.

This Educator Guide explores Beckett's work and absurdism in literature.
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The Long Run: New Conservatory Theatre Center

This Educator Guide explores the history and programs of the New Conservatory Theatre Center and its role in community development in San Francisco.
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The Next Generation: Youth Speaks

This Educator Guide is about the history of spoken word.
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Trailblazers: Joe Goode

This Educator Guide addresses the history and form of dance-theatre as an artistic genre.
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