Students will explore how styles of dance are influenced by culture. They will learn simple movement phrases from the Pavane, an English court dance, and Alingo Lingo, a Mexican Folk Dance.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will explore aspects of Native American history and identify essential elements of traditional Native American dance. Students will identify aesthetic and cultural elements of traditional Native American dance through readings and embodied learning.
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This sample lesson is designed to enrich student exploration of existing class choreography. Students will explore each of Laban’s effort actions and understand how each action engages time, space, and weight. Students will practice a choreographed movement phrase, manipulating effort actions to perform in a qualitatively rich manner. This lesson offers students the opportunity to demonstrate creative agency within a predetermined structure (the original choreography).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The teacher can direct a short class performance of a dance of local, state, or national significance. The performance is recorded then sent to a similar class in another community, state, or part of the world. The exchange school will send a performance back. When students receive the recording from the other class, they can respond to what they “see, think, and wonder” about the work they have viewed.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Dancers document performances and creative processes with video, photos, and reflections of learning, then create digital portfolios to store, organize, maintain, and share their work with appropriate audiences and for auditions.
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This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning.
Material Type: Lecture
Lesson Demo: Kwame Shaka demonstrates one of his most popular lessons in this active/interactive workshop. We will explore the socio-historical roots and rhythmic movement of the Gumboot Dance, an art form created by forced laborers in the mines of South Africa in the 19th century. Learn how tempo, rhythm, and pattern are used to create a percussive and socially impactful dance. Find the potential in using the power of collective movement to build community in your classroom.Talk Back: Hear Kwame Shaka speak about his 30+ year career as a performing artist and dance educator. Kwame Shaka will discuss his origins in dance, highlights of his career and challenges faced as a professional in showbusiness and education. Learn about his Triumph of Disruption pedagogy and its correlating progressions of success in the classroom. During the talk back, participants are encouraged to ask questions and to add comments to further discussion and bring forth new perspectives.
Material Type: Lecture
This document contains a sample list of fine arts careers by discipline, links and resources for exploring fine arts careers, and resources for workbased learning in fine arts courses.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning for grades 6-8 in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning for grades K-5 in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards.
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This resource demonstrates the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning for levels I-IV in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards.
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The attached infographic resource document descibes ways to engage English Learners in dance classrooms by making learning visible, supporting the language of visual arts, connecting learning to students' backgrounds and skills, using cooperative learning structures and strategies, and reducing cognitive load and allowing processing time.
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