Welcome to Dance!
• Learn and practice dance class routines.
• Explore the reasons for the dance studio rules.
• Find out what they already know about dance and to figure out how many of the students have or haven’t had dance class before. Preassessment.
• Become familiar with the dance program standard
warm up.
Exploring the Elements of Dance
• Exploring the components of the Laban Movement Analysis
• Exploring choreographic devices
• Observe and describe peers’ choreographic process
• Determine artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning
• Exploring how to convey emotions and ideas to Movement
•Revise dance compositions based on artistic criteria developed collaboratively, using self, peer, and teacher feedback
Arts In Learning Presentation:
Black History
• Conduct research, using a variety of resources, to find information about the Black history or relevant sources
• Use the information to create a dance study/artwork that expresses a specific point of view on the topic
• Work individually and collaboratively to design and implement a variety of choreographic processes and devices anddance structuresto develop original dances.
• Develop anartistic statementthat communicates a personal aesthetic, motivation, and artistic intent for an original dance study or dance
• Collaborate as an ensemble to refine dances.
• Solve movement challenges in dances by investigating options and arriving at consensus decisions.
• Document self-improvements over time.
• Collaborate with peers to discover strategies for achieving performance accuracy, clarity, and expressiveness.
• Articulate personal performance goals, and practice toachieve them.
Arts In Learning Presentation:
Spring Performance
• Explore a variety of stimuli for sourcing movement to develop an improvisational or choreographed dance study.
• Explore a variety of stimuli such as music selections, film clips, live performances, etc, for sourcing movement to develop an improvisational or choreographed dance study.
• Collaborate as an ensemble to refine dances by Identifying what works and does not work in executing complex patterns, sequences, and formations.
• Refine the process of selecting production elements that intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work.
• Collaborate to design production elements(e.g. music/sound, props, costumes, lights, set, video) that intensify and heighten the artistry of a dance performed on a stage, in different venues, or for various audiences.
Poetry and Narratives
• Analyze poetry and bring it to life with artistic intent
• View both poetry and movement in language form
• Create dance study inspired by poetic stimulus
• Explore and use the Laban Movement Analysis to enhance and deepen the creative process
• Explain how a dance communicates meaning through the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and dance structure, using genre-specific dance terminology.
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