ALEX Classroom Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] DAN (6) 5 :

5) Use collaboratively-developed artistic criteria to revise dance compositions, and explain reasons for revisions and how choices were made related to artistic intent.

[ARTS] DAN (7) 1 :

1) Develop choreography using a variety of prompts through relating similar or contrasting ideas.

Examples: Music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news, or social events.

[ARTS] DAN (8) 3 :

3) Collaborate to select and apply a variety of choreographic devices to create an original dance study and document the process.

Example: Video, Laban, journals, or list.

In this lesson, students will choreograph simple dances in small groups and perform them for the class. Students will learn elements of dance and vocabulary by demonstrating various movements. Students will create a K-W-L chart about dance.  They will share in pairs and report findings to the class.  They will work in pairs to choreograph a 64 beat dance.