Explore the arts wherever you are! Whether you’re preparing to attend a show or are just looking for some family-friendly creative inspiration, New Victory Arts Break offers free online activities guided by New Victory Teaching Artists for teachers and families to incorporate performing arts into their learning. In this ongoing series, discover posts related to past and upcoming shows that will flex your creativity and stretch your imagination!
New Victory Arts Break is funded, in part, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York State Council on the Arts.
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For this season’s final Arts Break, we’re taking a tour of performing arts around the world, celebrating a few nations whose art has graced our stage.
We turn to the arts to celebrate Juneteenth together as a way to educate, communicate and activate ourselves towards equality, liberation and justice.
From eagle pose to Superman, you’ll fly to new heights in this series of activities that safely explore balancing, posing and weight sharing.
Guiado por Teaching Artists, Arts Break es un currículum diseñado para que las familias atrapadas en casa incorporen las artes escénicas en su aprendizaje.
Let’s turn our attention inward and imagine new worlds of our own making. This week, we train our theatermaking spotlight on set and costume design.
Step right up—it’s Circus Tricks Week! Using the stuff around you (and the stuff between your ears), you’ll practice feats of showmanship and learn to combine them into circus acts brimming with personal style.
Shuffle and flap your way from basic rhythms and steps to more complex choreo in homemade tap shoes—just don’t make too much noise.
In this week’s Arts Break, it’s time to expand and enrich the world of your theatrical creations by designing props and soundscapes!
It’s Playmaking Week! By the end of this week, you’ll have everything you need to write and perform your very own scenes and short plays.
It’s Week 7 of New Victory Arts Break! Wear your hearts on your sleeves and hold onto your silliest hats—this week is all about clowning.