Reference & Special Interest

Based on Prokofiev's ballet, performed by the Berlin Comic Opera Ballet. 31 min.

Ballet, mime, acrobatics and theater combine with magnificent sets combine with music by Viktor Kalabis for Lewsi Carroll's classic story.

A dazzling production featuring ice dancing, ballet, and synchronized underwater swimming. 

Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Nutcracker ballets plus documentaries. 

These joyful productions, abridged for the classroom, capture a child's imagination and are a perfect introduction to classical music.

The long awaited opera of Antoine de St. Exupery's classic tale with music was composed by Rachel Portman.

Composer Oliver Knussen with artist & author Maurice Sendak produce 2 fantasy operas of Sendaks children's books. 

Two Fantasy Operas created from Sendak's books are composed and conducted by Oliver Knussen with production design by Maurice Sendak himself. 

Autobiography of Li Cunxin, dancer from the Bejing  Dance  Academy during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Daphne Hurford.  The story of a teenage and his rites of passage as a student at the world-renowned School of American Ballet. 

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

Based on the inspiring true story of a Chinese peasant who beats the odds to become a world renowned ballet dancer. 

A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, Bess Kargman's documentary paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.

Two transformative programs in public schools bring underprivileged children/youth together through dance.

by Kerri Lynn Nichols.  Integrate “music moments” in language arts, math, science, social studies, visual arts, and wellness.

Strengthening Our Minds Across a Lifetime. This 2-part PBS program--The Art of Connection and Creativity--reveals the vital role the arts play from our earliest to our final years of life.

In this acclaimed BBC documentary, the wonders of European thought, philosophy, architecture, art, music and literature are explored, from the final days of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into contemporary times.

Sofia Lopez-Ibor uses the ideas and processes of Orff Schulwerk, always seeking the experience of the music, the story, the art, the dance.