Students participate in a teacher-led transition activity and continue to develop their movement phrases, manipulating the elements of dance and adding transitions and use of compositional forms.

Learning Goals

  • Use the elements of dance to create and perform a variety of movement phrases inspired by different sources.
  • Manipulate three or more elements of dance in movement phrases.
  • Use improvisation to develop movement phrases.
  • Use choreographic forms, techniques and structures to connect movement phrases.
  • Accurately demonstrate dance technique.
  • Provide feedback to others to help their development of movement skills.
  • Use feedback from teachers and peers to improve their work in dance.
  • Describe their development as a dancer using portfolio materials.
  • Demonstrate the ability to describe movements as well as perform them.
  • Apply dance studio roles and responsibilities.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of safety issues in dance class; character traits needed in dance class; copyrighted music and choreographic work.

Materials

Minds On (Approximately 30 minutes)

Action! (Approximately 100 minutes)

  • The teacher asks students to recall their favourite or most effective movements/movement phrases from the previous class and begin to organize them into structured compositions using compositional forms and appropriate transitions. 
  • The teacher reminds students of the importance of artistic expression and voice, in addition to the use of transition and compositional form(s) to create meaning in the piece rather than just stringing steps together.
  • The teacher circulates to assist student groups in compiling/selecting appropriate movement choices.
  • The teacher conferences and observes each group to ensure they are making adequate progress and to monitor use of time in order to adjust presentation dates as needed.
  • The teacher provides adequate in-class time for students to compose their group composition.

Consolidation (Approximately 20 minutes)

  • If students have been moving/dancing to their chosen accompaniment, the teacher or a student leads the class though a physical cool-down.