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Title: |
Tempo- How Fast Do You Go |
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Visual Arts,Dance |
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7 |
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Description: |
In this lesson, students will:
Investigate tempo with an emphasis on sensing time differences with their kinesthetic sense (the sense of body position and motion seated in the the muscular and nervous systems)
Warm up the body with quickly juxtaposed tempos to foster sensitivity to tempo variation
Create a dance study that juxtaposes two different tempos
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Title: |
Sensing Cultural Time |
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Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
7 |
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Description: |
This lesson investigates how different cultures or historical periods have interpreted time differently and how dance has been used to express those cultures.
In this lesson, students will:
Investigate different cultural examples of dances that last over extended periods of time
Participate in dance improvisations inspired by various environments with specific time based criteria.
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Title: |
Duration Part 1: Waste, Blow, Lose, or Fill Time |
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Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
7 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
create a video to demonstrate the concept of duration
will experience different movement durations through simple gesture dances
create a gesture dance study with a partner that emphasizes duration and incorporates spatial choices to show the different gestures most effectively.
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Title: |
The First Dance |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
6 |
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Description: |
Students will:
Collaborate with a group to create an original dance
Develop dance moves by exploring multiple solutions to a movement problem
Use contrast, unity, and variety as elements of a dance.
Discuss ways in which dance may have become associated with ritual in early him civilizations
Use dance vocabulary in a process of self-assessment about the creation of a dance
Use what they have learned about pre-historic humans as part of an artistic presentation.
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Title: |
Shape Flow Part 2: Lead the Follower |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
5 |
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Description: |
This lesson further explores the concept of shape flow.
Students will:
Cooperatively create an evolving group dance
Spontaneously improvise shapes that relate to and extend their collaborators shapes
Discuss their experience from both an insider and performer perspective and from the external observer perspective
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Title: |
Shape Flow Part 1: From Flip Books to Film |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
5 |
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Description: |
This lesson investigates dance as shapes flowing through space and time.
Students will:
Discuss the concept of shape flow with two-diemensional drawings.
Learn a simple phrase and break it into smaller component parts.
Perform the phrase with percussive dynamic and in a canon form with other groups.
Learn about photographer Eadward Muybridge's 1880's experiements with sequential photographs of humans and animals in motion, which led to the creation of film
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Title: |
Which Way Do We Go? Part 2 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
5 |
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Description: |
This lesson applies the concepts of fixed and relative directions, learnind in Part 1, to create a visually rich choreographed dance from simple movement choices.
Students will:
Choreograph a simple dance with a chair
Apply fixed and relative directions to this dance to create a complex unity
Discuss their experience from both an insider performer perspective and from the external observer perspective
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Title: |
Which Way Do We Go? Part 1 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
5 |
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Description: |
This lesson investigates the use of space in dance by considering the importance of directions, specifically fixed and relative directions.
In this lesson students will:
Review the six cardinal directions
Learn the difference between a fixed and relative orientation to teh performing space
Choreograph a simple folk dance using gestures and directions
Explore opposition in choosing body gestures
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Title: |
Gesture Lessons |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
5 |
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Description: |
Gestures are an intergral part of our lives. We use them to express emotions and to help create what we are saying. When we use these gestures, we can look at how realistic movement and abstract movement can allow us to express ourselves in different ways. We can use the elements of movement to take a realistic gesture and change it to create an abstract movement.... |
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Title: |
Evening Dances: Letting Go with Weight Sharing |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
4 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
Warm-up with a release quality with an emphasis on sensing weight.
Work with partners exploring weight sharing.
Build dance studies that involve partner work.
Discuss in small groups about their process of moving together.
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Title: |
Evening - Writing All Day Dances Part 1 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
4 |
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Description: |
Students will:
Brainstrom in small groups specific scenarios tied to times of the day.
Craft succinct sentences to describe those scenarios.
Draw on their experience with gesture, locomotor and axial movement to translate those sentences into movement phrases or actions.
Build a three-part dance study that conveys specific events of the morning, afternoon and evening.
Discuss in small groups about their process of moving together.
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Title: |
Food - Fuel - Fun Lesson 4 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
3 |
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Description: |
Students will:
Discuss attributes of the circulatory system in the body by thinking about how food becomes energy and building blocks for cells
Improvise moving in curvilinear paths with different degrees of energy
Identify and experiment with axial movement
Explore moving through space in partnership with one or more dancers
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Title: |
Morning Dances: Wake Up-Gestures in The Morning - Lesson 3 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
3 |
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Description: |
Students will:
Learn individual body parts through a warm-up based on gestures
Identify and experiment with literal gestures of dressing and grooming
Learn to abstract those gestures by altering variables of size, speed and energy
Build on original gestural dance on the theme of morning
Perform this dance study for the class and watch and assess dances of others
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Title: |
Morning Dances: Blessing Dance - Lesson 2 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
3 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
Learn a dance based on Native American culture
Learn and implement the six cardinal directions (front, back, side right, side left, up adn down) in a choreographed dance
Use basic locomotor steps and gestures to indicate direction
Experience performing a repeating dance form that utilizes facing changes to emphasize community
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Title: |
Morning Dances Morning Energy - Lesson 1 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
3 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
Recall examples of different amounts of energy in thei bodies
Sense movements dynamics with simple full body movements contrasted with isolated body movements
Experience and discuss how we create emphasis through the use of force (or energy) whether in speech, action to convey physical moods, feelings and emotions
Explore htrough improvised dance pharses the transformation of the body from one dynamic level to another
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Title: |
Afternoon Dances, Partner Dances-Lesson 3 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
Create short dance studies based on the eight basic locomotor steps
Work in partners to develop and extend their studies
Teach and perform their studies
Discuss performance values for their own and other's studies
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Title: |
Afternoon Dances, Steps Across the Globe-Lesson 2 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
In this lesson:
Review the eight basic locomotor steps
Review axial movement actions
Discuss how dance steps can reflect a culture's work habits
Analyze different cultural dances to identify both locomotor steps and axial movement
Analyze different cultural dances for stylistic implications and to identify what is similar and different between the dances selected.
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Title: |
Afternoon Dances, Moving Through the Day-Lesson 1 |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
This is a series of lessons loosely connected to the early afternoon when we are in the center of the day. At school, children are still in lesson, long after the days' start but still some time before the day's end. Children may be excited about anticipated afternoon activities or focused on their lessons. Just as students and teachers are moving through their day, these lessons introduce and explore locomotor steps and develop them into phrases colored by afternoon situations. These lessons explore common experiences yet allow for creative expression of individual differences. Students will both improvise dances and create short studies individually.
Larger issues in these lessons address how people move and what it communicates about them. People articulate their movements through elements of time, space, and energy. Dance movement sequences contain a variety of steps built into dynamic phrases. Patterns of movement can define important essences of people, anima... |
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