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For years, K-12 teachers have been relying on the invaluable blueprints in BUILDING DANCES to help their students put movements together. Now this popular guide has been significantly expanded and updated to give you even more tools to guide your students—even if you’ve never taught or choreographed dance.
Not only are there new dance-building activities, called Dance Construction Models, and more Deal-a-Dance cards, but both have been expanded and reformatted: The Dance Construction Models now provide new information on national standards, grade-level adaptations, and student assessments with sample rubrics, and the Deal-A-Dance cards have been retooled to encourage greater student involvement in both the creation and the assessment of their own work. And that’s just the beginning!
Use BUILDING DANCES, SECOND EDITION, alone or together with the companion resource, BUILDING MORE DANCES, to help your students experience the joy of building their own dances and performing student-created dances.
BUILDING DANCES, SECOND EDITION
Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Helene Scheff, and Marty Sprague
2005 • Paperback • 176 pp
ISBN 0-7360-5089-2
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Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist will walk your students through the process of becoming well-rounded dancers and deepen their understanding of dance as an art form.
Systematic in its approach, Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist places teachers in the roles of facilitators who encourage critical thinking and student involvement in the learning process. This text is designed for students who have had some dance experience and are interested in exploring the art of dance.
With movement experiences and written assignments, more than 45 self-paced lessons, and complete guidelines for building a portfolio, the book provides a complete curriculum progression that can also be used to supplement an existing curriculum covering the following elements:
Understanding dance as an art form
Creating and performing dances
Understanding how cultural diversity influences dance
Evaluating and critiquing dance
The book’s 15 chapters outline for students the steps involved in the making of a dance artist: how to identify movement potential, express ideas through dance, develop choreography, connect to the community and tradition, showcase student work through a formal production, train to become a dancer, refine the art form, and develop a portfolio.
Each chapter includes chapter objectives, a list of lessons, introductory text, three or four lessons, portfolio items, and an end-of-chapter review quiz.
The self-paced lessons allow students to work independently and allow teachers to address students of various abilities within a class. Each lesson features the following elements:
Move It! is a student’s first experience with the content of the lesson.
Vocabulary section presents selected definitions of key terms.
Curtain Up presents background information that students need to do the work.
Take the Stage features student work produced and shared.
Take a Bow covers student response, evaluation, aesthetics, criticism, and revision.
Spotlight features highlights of prominent dancers and dance companies.
Did You Know? presents further information relating to the lesson, including historical and cultural facts.
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(from the back cover...)
If you liked Building Dances, then you’ll love Building More Dances! This new book uses the same hands-on approach to the mechanics and art of dance making as the first book. Plus, it provides even more tools to help teachers facilitate the dance-making process: more dance construction models, more suggestions to spark creativity, and more ideas for lesson plans!
Like the earlier book, Building More Dances puts the teacher in the role of facilitator. It covers all the fundamentals so that even teachers with little or no dance background will feel comfortable teaching students how to build dances.
Building More Dances expands on the information in Building Dances, introducing even more ways to build dances and facilitate student learning. The book contains 23 new dance construction models and 108 all-new Deal-a-Dance cards. The dance construction models are creative, often cross-curricular blueprints for putting movements together in ways that satisfy National Physical Education Standards as well as the National Dance Standards. And the Deal-a-Dance cards provide movement examples that students can take to the floor with them to try out on the spot. They’re great hands-on tools that stimulate students’ creativity and inventiveness in the dance-making process.
Building More Dances helps ensure student success with new material that elaborates on the seven steps to Building Dances:
Choosing subject matter
Exploring and selecting movement
Coordinating music and movement
Exploring possibilities
Refining and memorizing dance making
Adding the finishing touches
Performing the dance
Each of the dance construction models lists grade-appropriate variations to make the dances suitable for any school-age group. You can use the constructions as single lessons or develop them into entire units. Regardless of your field of expertise or the ages and ability levels of your students, this book can supply hours, days, or even weeks of material. The book also contains specific assessment suggestions and numerous ideas for presenting and performing student-created dances.
Building More Dances also includes an action plan for aligning standards and curriculum. Not only does the book define and compare the National Dance Standards and National Physical Education Standards, but each of the dance construction models also provides concrete suggestions to help you ensure that your program supports these standards, as well as standards for applied learning, music, geography, social studies, and other subjects.
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The group also has two other books you should know about:
Dance About Anything (Human Kinetics, 2004 - in press), and
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