Agenda - Dance• B4/A2 Culture Projects Due – 75 Points!

– Lay on my desk

• You WILL NOT need your folder today.

• You will need the following:

– Dance Pretest

– Guided Note Sheet

• To do today:

– Opener Pretest

– Dance Class Discussion

– Notes

– Video Analysis of the Elements

– Complete Music Performances the last 20 minutes of class.

Opener

• Complete the Dance Pretest ON YOUR OWN!

• It is for PARTICIPATION POINTS and for me to see what YOU already know!

• If I see you looking at someone else’s paper I will give you a 0/20!

Discussion• Is dance a learned skill or is it innate? (existing

within us before we are born)

• Have you ever seen someone dance who has NEVER danced before?

• Is dancing cultural or biological?

• All the Single Babies

What is dance?

• We’ve talked about many different definitions that all center around the same thing.

• Dance is a natural activity that becomes artistic when it is structured and formed by the elements of dance and the principles of composition.

Learning the Vocabulary

The Elements of Dance

• Space

• Time

• Force

The Choreographic Forms of Dance

• Theme and Variation

• Rondo

• Narrative

• SPACE: the area in which you move; the area around you

Other words associated with SPACE

• LEVEL: vertical distance from the floor; high, middle, low

» DIRECTION: the way a dancer faces or moves; forward, backward, sideways, up and down

• PATHWAY: patterns made as a dancer faces or moves through the air or on the floor

• SIZE:SIZE: the magnitude of a body shape or movement

What is the level and direction?

Yes, there’s a few more• GENERAL SPACEGENERAL SPACE: the space

shared by all dancers, the dance area; reaches beyond personal space

• PERSONAL SPACE: the space reached while stationary or not moving

• SHAPE:SHAPE: the form created by the body’s position in space; open/closed, symmetrical/asymmetrical, angular/curved

Which is personal? Which is general?

Evolution of Dance

• Go to your video clip note page, read the prompt and then answer the questions based on the clip.

TIME

• Definition: the relationship of one movement or part of a movement to another

• PULSE: Ongoing underlying beat

• BEAT: most basic unit of rhythm; underlying rhythmic pulse (downbeat)

• TEMPO: the speed with which the movement is performed

• RHYTHM: a flow of sound or movement having regular accented beats

• ACCENT: a movement or shape performed in such a way as to give emphasis

TIME, continued

• DURATION: the length of time a movement lasts; can either be a long or short time or somewhere in between

• PHRASE: a sequence of related movements that has a sense of rhythmic completion

Vote for Pedro

• Go to your video clip note page, read the prompt and then answer the questions based on the clip.

FORCE

• FORCE: the degree of muscular tension and use of energy while moving; the use of weight

Different levels of Force

• DYNAMICS: how a movement is done– Sharp/Smooth– Tension/Relaxation

• FLOW: continuity of movement– Bound/Flowing

• WEIGHT: strength or lightness of movement– Heavy/Light

• ENERGY: the power or ability to be active

White Nights

• Go to your video clip note page, read the prompt and then answer the questions based on the clip.

Day 2 Dance Agenda

• You will not need your folders today.

• Take out a sheet of paper.

• You will do two things for your opener, one on the front and one on the back.

• Turn this into the basket for 20 participation points.

Day 2 Dance Agenda

• Opener – review questions and ballet positions

• Finish Power Point from last class

• Dance Viewing Guide

• Writing Prompt

Review Questions• 1. What is the language used in music?

• 2. Name the three elements of dance.

• 3. In dance, the area you can reach with your body, without moving, is considered what; general or personal?

• 4. What term refers to speed in both music AND dance?

• 5. four four, three four, and two four are called what in music?

Practice and then draw the feet positions from a vertical perspective.

• Choreography is when the elements of dance are used to create visual compositions that use movement.

Principles of Composition

• Remember how the definition of dance talked about the principles of composition?

• They are: BEGINNINGMIDDLEEND

Dances become artistic when they include the principles of composition.

• AB: two-part structure; made up of two different sections which may or may not be repeated

• ABA: three-part structure; three-part dance compositional form where the first and third parts are the same and the second is different

• Call and Response: One soloist or group performs, second soloist/group “responds” – African music and dance– Gregory Hines and Savion Glover– Top Hat

• Narrative: Structure that follows a specific story line to convey information through a dance– White Nights

Dance Viewing Guide #2• Title: The Way You Make Me Feel

• Choreographer: ?

• Date: 2000

• Place: NYC

• Performers: Amanda Scull/Ethan Stiefel/Sascha Radetsky

• Style/Context: Ballet/Modern

How do choreographers use choreography to tell a story?

20 pointsCenter Stage – The Way You Make Me Feel

 AH-HS-1.2.1

Students will analyze or evaluate how choreographers and dancers use the elements of dance, forms and styles to communicate ideas and feelings through

creating and performing.  

On the back of your viewing guide, write a well developed paragraph that answers the following questions:

“What was the story being told through the dance and the lyrics in the Way You Make Me Feel? How did the dancers convey this story through

movements and body positions?”

(To receive full credit you must include in your description the elements of dance and the aspects of those elements. Look at your note sheet and viewing

guide!)

Dance Viewing Guide #1• Title: White Christmas - Choreography

• Choreographer: Multiple Collaboration with Bob Fosse

• Date: 1954

• Place: USA

• Performers: Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen

• Style/Context: Modern and Tap

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvEMpqlRhM&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6TBK1GGoqs&feature=related

How do choreographers use choreography to tell a story?

20 pointsWhite Christmas - Choreography

 AH-HS-1.2.1

Students will analyze or evaluate how choreographers and dancers use the elements of dance, forms and styles to communicate ideas and feelings through

creating and performing.  

On the back of your viewing guide, write a well developed paragraph that answers the following questions:

“What was the story being told through the dance and the lyrics in White Christmas? How did the dancers convey this story through movements and

body positions?”

(To receive full credit you must include terminology learned in class last period and today. Look at your note sheet and viewing guide!)