MOHAI Idea Lab at Home: Music & Dance

Learn about how collaborations between students and faculty at Cornish across artistic disciplines led to exciting innovations in music and dance. Then explore the relationship between music and movement by building a kinetic sculpture!
About the MOHAI Idea Lab: learn about examples of innovations throughout history, build skills for innovation, and let your imagination soar with activities for the young and young at heart that rotate monthly. At the museum, sit down at the Idea Lab any time for a self-guided, hands-on activity inspired by MOHAI exhibits and programs. Explore the same ideas at home with videos and downloadable instructions for a craft or experiment designed by MOHAI Educators.
Click here to download the instructions for the activity in this video:mohai.org/prog...
Historic photos in order of appearance:
• Nellie Cornish, UW Special Collections, UW862
• Booth Building, Seattle ca 1918, MOHAI PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, 1983.10.2175.1
• John Cage photographed by Rob Bogaerts, 1988, Dutch National Archives, 2.24.01.05.
• Syvilla Fort, Cornish College Archives
• John Cage’s Percussion Collection, 1940, John Cage Trust
• John Cage and Merce Cunningham ca 1945, Northwestern University Music Library, John Cage Collection
• A group of Katherine Dunham Dancers shown mid-rehearsal, 1946, Library of Congress, item 200003772
Music (in order of appearance): “School” by Komiku is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License; “Week 04 - Aeolian Harps” (Doug Hollis sculpture recording) by loopool is licensed under a CC0 3.0 Attribution License; “Rhapsody in Blue” composed by George Gershwin performed by Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin, 1924 original recording.