Creative Dance

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Creative Dance

• BJ Santos
• Albemarle County Public Schools

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Virginia Standards of Learning for Physical
Education

• 9.1, 10.1 Skilled movement
• 9.2, 10.2 Movement Principles and Concepts

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Dance Arts Standards of Learning for Virginia
Public Schools

• Dance I - 2
• The student will develop dance technique skills
  and movement vocabulary, including strength,
  flexibility, coordination, endurance, balance,
  and replication.

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Dance Arts Standards of Learning for Virginia
Public Schools

• Dance I - 3
• The student will perform extended movement
  sequences that employ a variety of space, shape,
  time, rhythm, energy, and effort requirements.

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Dance Arts Standards of Learning for Virginia
Public Schools

• Dance I - 5
• The student will develop personal movement
  invention skills and improvisation skills.

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Essential Question

• How is movement combined to illustrate a concept?

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Essential Question

• How does music influence the dance form?

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Essential Question

• How do the elements of dance combine to create an
  aesthetically pleasing movement form?

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Students will know

• Dance terminology and the elements of dance
• A variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements

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Students will understand

• How to map a musical selection
• How to plan a map of concepts
• Action words and their interpretation into
  movement

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Students will be able to

• Create a dance that integrates the elements of
  dance, an abstract or movement concept with a
  selected piece of music

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Summative Assessments

• Students will organize music into a map.
• Students will formulate a concept map that will
  use action words to support the movement.
• Students will create and perform an original
  dance performed to a music selection of their
  choice.

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Elements of Dance

• Movement locomotor, non-locomotor
• Time
• Space level, direction, focus
• Energy
• Body shape, parts

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Mapping Music

• Musical Paragraph 32 counts
• Made up of 4- 8 count sentences
• First 8 1st dominant
• Second 8 1st passive
• Third 8 2nd dominant
• Fourth 8 2nd passive

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Verse/Chorus Mapping

• Introduction
• Verse
• Verse
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Verse
• Chorus

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Action Words

• Run skip swing leap gallop slide roll bend flee
  dart float soar wobble spring vault perch settle
  pause hold freeze kick punch flick shimmy quiver
  tremble wiggle twitch flap jerk stamp jab inflate
  grow expand rise extend spread swell shrink
  shrivel wither dwindle collapse squeeze crumple
  melt drip creep bound shiver vibrate stretch
  explode sink lower

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Concept Mapping
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Group Dance Project

• Project rubric
• Choose one locomotor movement as primary movement
• A. Start with frozen pose on three levels - low,
  medium, high - 8cts
• B. Choose a time (slow, medium, or fast) for
  primary movement - 8 cts.
• C. Choose a direction (forward, backward,
  sideward, diagonal or turning). primary movement
  8ct.
• D. Choose a focus (straight, curved, open,
  closed) and add a different direction to primary
  movement 8 cts.
• E. Choose an energy (strong or light) perform a
  non-locomotor movement 8 cts.
• F. Choose another energy (sharp or smooth)
  primary movement 8 cts.
• G. Choose a direction, primary movement 8 cts.
• H. Return to frozen poses 8 cts.