The achievement standard is available at this link and student instructions are available here for you to download and save or print. Your teacher will read through these with you to ensure you are clear on what the standard expects of you. You also need to refer to them regularly throughout the course of the teaching and learning to ensure you are meeting the requirements and considering the criteria for each level of achievement.
Task One: Ideas
On your blog page under AS 2.1 post your stimulus and the potential you see for creating a group dance from this (e.g. if it is a piece of art work make sure the artwork is loaded with a written explanation)
For Example:
Task Two: Deciphering the standard
In your group download and read through the standard (available here) and highlight any key words and phrases that are important for your understanding of the standard.
- Load the completed highlighted document
- Provide a short group summary on what it takes to achieve an Excellence for this standard
- How will your stimulus/idea allow you the potential to do this?
You are required to have this completed by: Monday 9th March
Task Three: Develop ideas for movement (Monday 9th March - Study Lesson)
Your aim for this task is to take a stand on this issue and send a message to your audience about your opinion.
As a group on a word or publisher document:
- Brainstorm ideas, find images, newspaper articles or headlines, interview people or reflect on your own experiences to develop your stance on this issue
- Reflect on how this issue makes you feel: what emotions/moods you want to convey to your audience about this issue and why
- Consider how you could convey your stance to an audience through dance
- Consider what message you want your audience to take away with them.
Post this brainstorm to your 2.1 blog page and ensure you are considering how the things above through dance/movement (to ensure you are heading in the right direction you might want to refer to task 4 and task 6 below).
You are required to have this completed by: Monday 9th March
You are required to have this completed by: Monday 9th March
Task Four: Develop and explore movement ideas
In your group use improvisation to explore possible movement that might present your intention. Some examples include:
- Creating motifs related to your issue (what movements might present your intention)
- Consider ways of using the elements of dance to manipulate your motifs to assist in conveying your intention could include a range of different levels, body shapes, body parts and/or locomotor and non-locomotor movements
- Consider ways of using the choreographic devices of dance to develop your motifs and assist in conveying your intention might include repetition, augmentation, fragmentation and/or retrograde.
At the end of the first week of your group choreography post the following to your blog:
Reflect on:
Reflect on:
- How effectively am I conveying my stance on this issue?
- What more do I need to do to ensure this is clearer?
Post the following photographs:
- Photos of your chosen motifs. When you post the photo also provide an explanation on what the motif represents
You are required to have this completed by: Sunday 15th March
Task Five: Select movement ideas and structure your dance
Choreograph and refine movement sequences and phrases to structure the dance. These may come from your previous exploration of movement.
Selecting movement ideas
Work towards:
Task Six (assessed against AS 2.6): Improvise movements for a Group
Task Five: Select movement ideas and structure your dance
Choreograph and refine movement sequences and phrases to structure the dance. These may come from your previous exploration of movement.
Selecting movement ideas
Work towards:
- Selecting unusual movement material and unexpected combinations of movements to assist in making your choreography imaginative
- Using motif and development
- Adding an overall structure
- Combining choices to create a sense of unity and that clearly convey the idea, mood or image. Movements and phrases may build to a climax to emphasise the intention
- Create smooth transitions that smoothly connect to movements before and after and that produce a sense of flow throughout the dance.
Video a phrase from the dance that you feel would benefit from some variation and post it to your blog. Explain why you chose this phrase.
Your group will use this phrase against assessment for task 7 below which will be assessed against AS 2.6.
You are required to have this completed by: Friday 13th March
This task will take place in class Wednesday 18th March
Using the starting point you chose for your 2.1 Group Choreography brainstorm ways that you could use this starting point to suggest movement (For example, you could choose individual words or phrases from a poem that suggest movement)
Post these suggested ideas to your blog
Take some of your brainstorm ideas and use them to make up some exercises, using choreographic devices, to improvise movement for a group (For example, you could mime an everyday experience. Then you could abstract the mime movements by fragmenting the action and re-ordering the fragments. You could also use other choreographic devices, such as using your whole body to do the movement, making a different body part important in the movement, or making the movement travel across the room. See Resource A for information on choreographic devices)
Post these exercises to your blog
Use the exercises you have developed to direct the small group of year 11 dancers provided to you to improvise movements.
On your blog:
- Evaluate your improvisations. Consider what worked well, what didn't work so well, what you would do differently next time etc
- Choose two movement improvisations – one that you could develop further to make a dance and one that you would choose not to use. Explain your choices.
You are required to have this completed by: Friday 20th March
Task Seven (assessed against AS 2.6): Varying a Phrase
Select a short movement phrase (approx. 16 counts) from your group choreography.
Vary the phrase by exploring the following:
- Changing the facings and directions in which you travel
- Changing the timing to make it slower or faster
- Changing the dynamics to much heavier or softer
- Emphasising an important moment through stillness or strong focus.
You are required to have this completed by: Monday 16th March
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