Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
--Maya Angelou
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Course Descriptions:
Dance is music made visible.
--George Balanchine
Dance Elective
(5 CREDITS)
GOAL:
This course provides a basic elementary study of ballet and modern dance forms for students who are interested in dance. Emphasis is placed on technical growth, improvisation, dance composition and choreography, and performance. This course demands a high level of effort, discipline, and commitment while encouraging enjoyment of creative expression.
OBJECTIVES:
-Perceive, identify, analyze, discuss and critique elementary principles of ballet, jazz, and modern dance forms and improvisation as cultural, artistic, and historical phenomena.
-Articulate (verbal, physical, in writing), and demonstrate the mechanics of movement, sequential movement concepts and improvisation with proper terminology through specific dance genres.
-Perceive, discuss and demonstrate aspects of style in different dance genres through the integration of music, visual arts, and theatre in the exploration and analysis of specific dance works.
-Explore and experience movement as a body therapy. Body therapies could include, but are not limited to, Bartinieff fundamentals, Yoga, Pilates, and Alexander technique. These therapies will be discussed as a cross disciplinary methods utilized by artists and movement professionals.
-Perceive, identify, analyze, discuss and critique choreographic principles of different dance genres and improvisation based on experiences in movement classes and through an exploration of media (technology, music, visual, theatre, live and filmed).
COURSE CONTENT:
This course is an introduction to the Elements of Dance (time, space, shape, and energy) and the principles of ballet and modern dance. Emphasis is placed on technical growth, terminology dance history, improvisation, dance composition and choreography, dance critique and analysis, performance and ongoing artistic growth. The course offers the students to explore and create movements using improvisation skills, individually and collaboratively with peers, understanding the process of basic choreographic skills. This course will also provide the students with the how dance relates to the other art forms, such as music, theatre, and visual arts.
ASSESSMENT: Rubrics
- Technique/ Improvement- 30 %
This will include all of the class work in dance, such as the warm-up technique portion and the effort in doing the given movement phrases and skills.
- Tests- 25 %
-Written Tests
-Demonstration Tests
Students are tested on dance terminology (spelling, definitions, and demonstrations), various movement skills, choreographers biographies and companies.
- Projects/Notebooks- 25%
Students will give at least one presentation per marking period on an artist, artwork, or artistic time period. Students will work individually or with other group members creating choreographic works.
- Classwork/Homework/ Written Assignments- 20%
This will include any homework, written, or otherwise.
Dance Academy
(5 CREDITS)
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.
--Shanna LaFleur
GOAL:
This course provides an intermediate study of ballet, jazz, and modern dance forms for students who are interested in dance. Emphasis is placed on technical growth, improvisation, dance composition and choreography, and performance. This course demands a high level of effort, discipline, and commitment while encouraging enjoyment of creative expression.
To sing well and to dance is to be well educated.
--Plato
OBJECTIVES:
-Perceive, identify, analyze, discuss and critique elementary principles of ballet, jazz, and modern dance forms and improvisation as cultural, artistic, and historical phenomena.
-Articulate (verbal, physical, in writing), and demonstrate the mechanics of movement, sequential movement concepts and improvisation with proper terminology through specific dance genres.
-Perceive, discuss and demonstrate aspects of style in different dance genres through the integration of music, visual arts, and theatre in the exploration and analysis of specific dance works.
-Explore and experience movement as a body therapy. Body therapies could include, but are not limited to, Bartinieff fundamentals, Yoga, Pilates, and Alexander technique. These therapies will be discussed as cross disciplinary methods utilized by artists and movement professionals.
-Perceive, identify, analyze, discuss and critique choreographic principles of different dance genres and improvisation based on experiences in movement classes and through an exploration of media (technology, music, visual, theatre, live and filmed).
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
--Martha Graham
COURSE CONTENT:
This course focuses on the Elements of Dance (time, space, shape, and energy) and the principles of ballet, jazz and modern dance for the serious dancer. Emphasis is placed on technical growth, terminology, dance history, improvisation, dance composition and choreography, dance critique and analysis, performance and ongoing artistic growth. The course offers the students to explore and create movements using improvisation skills, individually and collaboratively with peers, understanding the process of choreographic skills. This course will also provide the students with the how dance relates to the other art forms, such as music, theatre, and visual arts.
TEXTBOOK: Technical Manual & Dictionary of Classical Ballet
by Gail Grant
ASSESSMENT: Rubrics
- Technique/ Improvement- 30 %
This will include all of the class work in dance, such as the warm-up technique portion and the effort in doing the given movement phrases and skills.
- Tests/Projects- 25 %
-Written Tests
-Demonstration Tests
Students are tested on dance terminology (spelling, definitions, and demonstrations), various movement skills, choreographers biographies and companies. Students will give at least one presentation per marking period on an artist, artwork, or artistic time period. Students will work individually or with other group members creating choreographic works.
- Performance- 30%
Students are expected and required to attend after school and weekend productions. This is the ultimate dance assessment and is the reason for them to be in the academy.
- Homework/ Written Assignments- 15%
This will include any homework, written, or otherwise.
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Writing Assignments:
Let us read and let us dance--
two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
--Voltaire
Dance Writing Assignments:
Paper Due Date:
Dance
Elective & Dance Academy 1-4: (Thursday) May 24, 2007
Writing Task
"Famous Dancer"
Identify
a famous dancer. Explain why this person chose to become a dancer. Where
did he/she train in dance? What is he/she doing today in the dance world?
Student Performances:
-Friday, December 15th (Winter Concert)
-Friday, February 23rd (Coffeehouse)
-TBA Teen Arts Festival
-TBA Senior Concert
Dance Academy Field Trips & Master Classes:
-Rowan Master Dance Class-January TBA
-Teen Arts Festival @SCC March TBA