UMGC The Dalí Museum Virtual Cultural Experience Report

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Description

For this assignment, you will choose a virtual cultural venue from the instructions below to visit online and write a short 500-800 word report about your visit.

Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the process of engaging with the cultural venues and communities.This will inform you personally of the Humanities and groups that support it.

Skills
This assignment will help you practice the following skills that will be useful to you in your professional and personal life beyond school.

  • Identify cultural venues and inform you with deeper knowledge about the art form chosen.
  • Organize reflections about engaging with a cultural experience and community
  • Use concepts and skills learned in class to describe and interpret cultural experiences and communities
  • Use appropriate and proper grammar, organization, and academic-style formatting in order to communicate

Knowledge
This assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in the Humanities.

  • Available virtual cultural venues and communities
  • Methods of interpretation within the Humanities

Instructions
For your report, chooseone virtual venue from this pre-approved list that most interests you, or contact your professor for approval of your own online choice. If your choice below has both a website and a video, make sure you examineboth. If you need special accommodations to complete this assignment, please inform your instructor and contact the Accessibility Accommodations office for guidance.

ART MUSEUMS AND SCULPTURE GARDENS

Great Museums documentaries

Egyptian Antiquities virtual tour at the Louvre
http://musee.louvre.fr/visite-louvre/index.html?defaultView=rdc.s46.p01&lang=ENG

Gallerie d’Appollon virtual tour at the Louvre
http://mini-site.louvre.fr/apollon/index_apollon.html

London National Gallery Google virtual tour of Renaissance paintings
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours/google-virtual-tour

London National Gallery 2011 Adobe Flash tour
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours/virtual-tour-2011

New Orleans Museum of Art virtual tour
https://noma.org/visit/noma-tour/

The British Museum of the World virtual tour with Google
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

Castle of Chenonceau, Chenonceaux, France (2 parts)

The Dalí Museums (2 parts)

Smithsonian National Quilt Collection (3 parts)

Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden (2 parts)

Smithsonian African American History and Culture Museum (2 parts)

Smithsonian Renwick Gallery in VR (requires download of Wonder 360 app on any device)
https://americanart.si.edu/wonder360

The VR Museum (free, requires free STEAM account & HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Valve Index)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/515020/The_VR_Museum_of_Fine_Art/

MUSIC CONCERT (please watch full performances)

New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music documentary
https://youtu.be/0y9bhyz0Kno

An Evening of Classical Violin and Tabla (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FvkraRMEko

Liberated Muse (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsHQJYMSjvc

Brianna Thomas (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWJQUIcfoJc

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Chicago Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjHhS5MtvA

The Light is the Same: Celebrating Women Composers (Millennium Stage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjHhS5MtvA

Mandy Harvey (Kennedy Center)
https://youtu.be/LbSMZVz85-s

Angélique Kidjo, Renée Fleming and Jason Moran (Kennedy Center)
https://youtu.be/fdeFCvtwI9I

Gaby Moreno (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/ZbpifpK1qfw

The Gothard Sisters (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/r05g-YE8I94

Kandace Springs (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/BbXScPwSlDU

C4 Trio (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/5ffGlWFBT58

National Jazz Workshop Big Band (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/GXVk5mT1Qgs

Dakh Daughters (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/r1wMUXiyibQ

Ramy Essam (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/JLG0aHNXra4

Anda Union (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/y8zkF9W9JjI

DANCE PERFORMANCE (please watch full performances)

Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs

Tinsel and Bone (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfHG_hd7z_o

Native Pride Dancers – (Millenium Stage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpR5H9zu_4k

S/HE by MN Dance Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIddQNyYVE

Revelations by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrPJ4kt3a64

Furia Flamenca (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXy-3Aferok

Uprooted Dance (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmtyIR2Efc

Surati: Classical Indian and Folk Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsJ-DBK9QA8

Tamagawa University Dance and Taiko Group (Kennedy Center)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccZkifi3CkI

Peruvian Music and Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3uGyJ3JHn0

Washington School of Ballet Performance (Millennium Stage)
https://youtu.be/16_NAn0GOWs

Rwandan Traditional Dance
https://youtu.be/zmy-zm1Z0b8

Xiutia Puerto Vallarta: Mexican Folk Dance
https://youtu.be/fI5nXJeslrw

Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago
https://youtu.be/PjL8aTOvoCY

Restrictions: The experience should be viewed during the current semester. If this is impossible, contact the instructor to arrange for alternatives. You may not report on a cultural experience viewed prior to this class.

Write a report after you have explored or viewed the online resource.

Your report should include the following information. Include photos or links that help convey the information. As always, be sure to document all sources you consult in preparing your work. This includes any learning resources from the class, or information from the websites that informed you about the particular item you explored.

  • Name and location of the museum, site, or performance event. If there is on-line information about the site or performance, be sure to include a link to it within the text of your essay in an appropriate place.
  • Type of museum, site or event. For example is it a portrait or sculpture museum, a music concert, or dance performance? If you viewed a performance, name the performer or the piece.
  • Briefly describe the general setting by talking a bit about the location (you can research the location online) and the general overall “vibe” of the place.
  • Describe at least one aspect of the experience that you found especially interesting. For example, you might write about a particular work of art, cultural artifact, song, dance section, costumes or lighting, a particular vocalist, etc. Explain what impressed or affected you, and why. Your reaction can be positive or negative, as long as you offer an explanation.
  • Identify and use at least two tools, concepts or methods that you have learned about in this class in the Learning Resources to talk about your viewing. For example, if you do a virtual museum tour, you might point out how color works in one of the paintings, or if you view to a concert, talk about how rhythm works in one of the songs. Make sure you are explicit in identifying the tools/concept/methods you are using and the specific learning resources they come from. Make sure to inform the reader about the tool/concept/method through a quote or paraphrase from the learning resource. Then, make sure to tell the reader how you interpret and/or analyze some elements of what you experience with the tools.
  • Be sure to cite the learning resources you have used in MLA format. Please see http://sites.umgc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm
  • Reflect on the relevance–if any–of your experience to your everyday life. How did the experience engage your feelings or emotions, if at all? What does this tell you about human culture, and/or about yourself?