Key Concept: Communication
MYP Related Concepts: Composition
Inquiry Questions
and expression Factual questions:
Dance Global Context: Personal and What are the elements of Dance?
Year 7 cultural expression
SOI
Conceptual questions:
How can the elements of dance enable you to
ACTION – The elements of dance facilitate express an emotion?
an inventive expression of ideas.
Group How can you use the elements of dance to
communicate a message to an audience?
Debatable questions:
Do the elements of dance really develop the level of
creativity of your dance?
How, if at all, can we measure and assess creativity?
Performance
Steps and tasks.
Please take notes under each of the instructions below – you may include pictures, drawings, written reflections,
links to music and videos etc
1. Read through the entire list and add some if you can think of extra – then decide and note when you will
complete each task and how long it should take.
2. Choose an emotion or the set intention of “No Way Out”
3. Brainstorm ideas of what that means and what your key intentions are that you with to successfully
communicate with your audience.
4. Improvise and experiment with an initial example fore each of the Actions and how you could use this action
to communicate your intention:
Include a video or images to document your choices.
GESTURE
LOCOMOTION
ELEVATION
FALLING
TURNING
STILLNESS
5. Connect some of these actions to create a single phrase that lasts between 8 and 32 counts and record it.
6. Create a rough outline of the Form or Structure for your dance – decide how the overall structure will look.
7. Develop your work, to the point of realization. Keep checking that you are selecting movements that will
effectively communicate your intention.
8. Rehearse and refine – it is often a difficult decision to change or completely get rid of sections of your
choreography that don’t work. Record your work and watch it as a group. Discuss what works and come to
consensus before making changes.
Perform! In the performance of your work, you need to show the extent of your skills for each action and clearly
communicate your intention to the audience.
Action – Group Performance
Your task is to create, rehearse and perform a short dance work that demonstrates the application of your understanding of the six main actions in Dance: Gesture,
Locomotion, Elevation, Falling, Turning and Stillness. (Duration 1:30) It may be to music of choice, and use costumes and props, but this is only to support your
work. It should not take up too much class time and should not reduce the creativity of your movement choices nor become the main way to communicate your
intention.
Assessment: This is a unique task, in that it assesses every MYP Arts criteria:
0 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8
Criterion A: iii. use acquired The student does not iii. demonstrates limited iii. demonstrates adequate iii. demonstrates iii. demonstrates
Knowing and knowledge to reach a standard use of acquired use of acquired knowledge substantial use of excellent use of
understanding inform their described by any of the knowledge to inform his to inform his or her artwork. acquired knowledge to acquired knowledge
artwork. descriptors or her artwork. inform his or her to inform his or her
artwork. artwork.
Criterion B: ii. demonstrate The student does not ii. demonstrates limited ii. demonstrates adequate ii. demonstrates ii. demonstrates
Developing the application of reach a standard application of skills and application of skills and substantial application excellent application
skills skills and described by any of the techniques to create, techniques to create, of skills and techniques of skills and
techniques to descriptors perform and/or present perform and/or present art. to create, perform techniques to create,
create, perform art. and/or present art. perform and/or
and/or present present art.
art.
Criterion C: iii. demonstrate The student does not iii. demonstrates limited iii. demonstrates adequate iii. demonstrates iii. demonstrates
Thinking the exploration reach a standard exploration of ideas exploration of ideas through substantial exploration excellent exploration
creatively of ideas through described by any of the through the the developmental process of ideas through the of ideas through the
the descriptors developmental process, to a point of realization. developmental process developmental
developmental which may lack a point to a point of realization. process to a point of
process to a of realization. realization.
point of
realization.
Criterion D: i. outline The student does not i. presents a limited i. presents an adequate i. presents a substantial i. presents an
Responding connections and reach a standard outline of connections outline of connections and outline of connections excellent outline of
transfer learning described by any of the and may transfer occasionally transfers and regularly transfers connections with
to new settings descriptors learning to new settings learning to new settings learning to new settings depth and insight,
and effectively
transfers learning to
new settings
Intention
Our theme is no way out and we are scared and trying to get out.
Song
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Wo5Vf1eGS8BA90TXCJFjZ?
si=f179ee91867e4635
Moves
Walking formation – 8 counts
Stop - 3 counts
Look around an make space between each other
Fall back
Mime climbing back up rope with facial expressions ( and then the rope breaks act
surprised and then we jump up and fall forward
Get up
Mime in a tight space
Jump to try and grab rope
Walking formation
Spread out into a big circle
Back in onto each other
Recordings from day 1
