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Ten 14-minute lessons
Produced 2005 — A PBS 45 & 49 Production
School-use rights: unlimited
Grades 6-12 / art/music, career education
Closed Captioned
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Teacher Guide (available online)
http://www.pbs4549.org/itv

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Shortcuts to Happiness: The Performing Arts features interviews with professionals, performers and students participating in the performing arts. Each episode gives a peek behind the scenes at what goes on and what it takes to make a performance happen. The series will be useful in middle and high school music, theater, TV production and speech classes. This series demonstrates real-world applications of the techniques taught in performing arts classes.

1. Music Made Visible: Dance
2. Born at the Rise of the Curtain, Die at Its Fall: Actor
3. Painting Pictures on Silence: Singer
4. What We Play Is Life: Musician
5. Some Choose a Pen: Writer
6. An Adventure of the Mind: Director
7. Meeting Place of the Arts: Theater Tech
8. To Imagine Is Everything: Video Production
9. Be Sincere, Be Brief, Be Seated: Public Speaking
10. Awakening Joy: Performing Arts Teacher

Block feed schedule: 9/7, 9/10, 1/9, 1/10