Dance Technique IV
Recommended Prerequisite: Dance Technique III, Choreography or Teacher Recommendation
Grades Offered: 12
Credit: 1/2 - 1
SDE Course Code: 3528
MNPS Course Code: PAR2420
Course Description
Advanced modern and jazz techniques are studied with an emphasis on style and phrasing movement. Intermediate tap technique is included.
Course of Study
· Identify and demonstrate movement elements
o Demonstrate consistency and clarity in performing technical skills
o Perform complex movement combinations to music in a variety of meters and styles
o Demonstrate improvement in performing movement combinations through self-evaluation
o Perform combinations in a broad dynamic range
o Critique a live or taped jazz and modern dance production based on given criteria
· Understand choreographic principles, processes, and structure
o Demonstrate subtlety and spontaneity in movement through improvisation
o Create movement studies using the elements of jazz, tap and modern dance, incorporating a variety of processes and structures
o Evaluate movement based on choreographic structures and principles of modern and jazz dance
· Creativity and Communication
o Create a jazz and/or modern dance study that effectively communicates a self-chosen idea, thought, and/or feeling to others
o Manipulate and combine images, sounds and experiences to convey meaning in a jazz and/or modern dance study
o Perform a modern and/or jazz dance study with projection
· Criticism and Analysis
o Synthesize solutions to a variety of movement problems
o Interprets jazz and modern dance choreography from a viewpoint other than one’s own
o Establish a set of aesthetic criteria and use it to evaluate jazz and modern dance choreography
o Appraise how skills learned in jazz and modern dance are used in other disciplines or careers
· Cultural/Historical Contexts
o Assess reasons for the differences in dance expression throughout the world
o Demonstrate expressive body movements that occur in the human experience through jazz and/or modern dance
o Categorize characteristics of dance works in theatrical and contemporary forms
o Identify possible motives for using jazz, tap and/or modern dance in the media
o Analyze issues of ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, age, and or physical conditions in relation to modern dance
· Health
o Discuss and chart one’s personal healthful living choices
o Identify and write about images of the body in various historical periods
o Identify and relate basic principles of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology
Reading: In addition to reading teacher handouts, students are expected to read from a variety of sources including articles and biographies on history, terminology, injury prevention, and basic anatomy. Students are expected to gain literal understanding of readings and also to interpret, analyze, and evaluate information from the readings.
Writing: Students are expected to apply correct dance terminology in written and oral communication. Suggested written assignments include journals, critiques, document‑based questions, and dance notation.
Standards
TN State Department of Education Standards
http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cistandards2001/music/cifadance68.htm
Textbook
No MNPS purchased textbook
Recommended and/or Required Resources
Jazz Dance – Marshall and Jean Stearns
Basic Concepts in Modern Dance – Gay Cheney
Modern Dance – Esther E. Pease
Modern Dance Terminology – Paul Love
Dance Film and Video Guide – Deirdre Towers
Live performances of dance
Professional dancers/choreographers