Maria Mitchell, our renowned and wonderful resident dance teacher, is doing an exciting collaborative project. It includes students from Ms. Bertoni's 3rd grade inclusion class with a 5th grade class in Wuppertal, Germany. At some point there will be videoconferencing. Here's brief description: International Internet Dance/Literacy Project Maria Mitchell In cooperation with " The Global Village" The Peter Kowald-Gesellschaft/ort e.v Foundation September-October 2005 The Peter-Kowald-Gesellschaft/ort e.v. Established in 2002 after the death of Peter Kowald (2002) is a foundation, located in Wuppertal Germany, is continuing the work of Peter Kowald. Peter Kowald was a world -renowned free music improviser. The work of the foundation is to support free improvised music and connect the music with dance, visual arts, poetry, movie etc; bringing artists together in "The Global Village".In the meantime, we are creating digital videos of Maria's in class sessions that she can bring with her when she goes to Germany next week. Here's some info on Wuppertal: "Wuppertal is the largest city in the Bergi country in the Land of the Federal Republic North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies in the geographical center of the compression chamber Rhine Ruhr, near the large cities of Duesseldorf ( 30 km west) an Cologne (40 km southwest). Wuppertal has about 360,000 inhabitants. It has two large urbane centers (Elberfeld and Barmen) and five further quarters (Beyenburg, Cronenberg, Long Field, Ronsdorf and Vohwinkel). From almost any place however within a short time a Erholsame green belt or an expanded forest area on the heights can be reached. Here's a slide show a some scenes from Wuppertal.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
The House I Live In: Wuppertal
Maria Mitchell, our renowned and wonderful resident dance teacher, is doing an exciting collaborative project. It includes students from Ms. Bertoni's 3rd grade inclusion class with a 5th grade class in Wuppertal, Germany. At some point there will be videoconferencing. Here's brief description: International Internet Dance/Literacy Project Maria Mitchell In cooperation with " The Global Village" The Peter Kowald-Gesellschaft/ort e.v Foundation September-October 2005 The Peter-Kowald-Gesellschaft/ort e.v. Established in 2002 after the death of Peter Kowald (2002) is a foundation, located in Wuppertal Germany, is continuing the work of Peter Kowald. Peter Kowald was a world -renowned free music improviser. The work of the foundation is to support free improvised music and connect the music with dance, visual arts, poetry, movie etc; bringing artists together in "The Global Village".In the meantime, we are creating digital videos of Maria's in class sessions that she can bring with her when she goes to Germany next week. Here's some info on Wuppertal: "Wuppertal is the largest city in the Bergi country in the Land of the Federal Republic North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies in the geographical center of the compression chamber Rhine Ruhr, near the large cities of Duesseldorf ( 30 km west) an Cologne (40 km southwest). Wuppertal has about 360,000 inhabitants. It has two large urbane centers (Elberfeld and Barmen) and five further quarters (Beyenburg, Cronenberg, Long Field, Ronsdorf and Vohwinkel). From almost any place however within a short time a Erholsame green belt or an expanded forest area on the heights can be reached. Here's a slide show a some scenes from Wuppertal.
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Hi,
You didn't say anything about the elephant falling from the Bahn.
That story is part of Wuppertal.
Do you know when the words Intellect, Intellectual and Intelectualism entered the German Language
I forgot to leave my address. sorry
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