1. Can you create a dance phrase that creates and communicates mean through gesture? Warm-up List every day gestures Abstract everyday gestures using movements As solos students will abstract one gesture from the list and perform a 8 count phrase showing the abstraction of the gesture In small groups accumulate your 8 count phrases

2. How did Isadora Duncan’s dance philosophy influence modern dance? Key Ideas about Isadora Duncan (handout) Warm-up Heart and soul center combo with abstract expression of movement List emotions Improvisation using emotions and abstraction ecstatic

3. How does improvisation influence your movement style? House keeping and circle time What is improvisation? How can you create a movement repertory based on improvisation Improv.. Curvy lines, angular lines, both together Across the floor angular 8 count make a shape 1234 grow the shape 5678 curvy off Reflection about improvisation

4. Why should you know dance history? Diaghilev a producer of modern ballets in Paris during the 1900s Nijinsky a ballet dancer who made startling new movement vocabulary reform. Afternoon of a Fawn and Rite of Spring Ziegfeld a producer of vaudeville dance group who were the 1 st modern dancers Loie Fuller a dancer in search of natural movement. She created fantastic dances using yards of rippling silk and lighting design

5. Pre-Modern dance Isadora Duncan free spirit. She was best known for her improvisations to classical music and school for dance Maude Allan devoted her dances to classical Greek arts Ruth St Denis was attracted by exotic mysticism of the Orient. Radha, Incense, Nautch Ted Shawn was interested in developing the body and movement of a dancer. He brought balance to Denishawn dance company

6. Can you create a dance phrase based on an emotion? Warm-up Plie with swing, tendu/degage, Limon swings Exuberant dance phrase 2 counts of 8 List 8 emotions and create a short 2 count of 8 solo phrase based on that emotion Show solo’s on Thursday and Friday for a grade

7. How did Isadora Duncan’s dance philosophy influence modern dance? Warm-up Review heart and soul dance phrase add 3 more counts of 8 Write a short paragraph about a emotion you felt this week. Describe the situation and why your felt the emotion. Begin to create a solo dance phrase based on that emotion. (6 counts of 8) Show solos on Friday

8. How does improvisation influence your movement style? Watch clip on improvisation Warm-up follow the line of energy Slowly change your movement patterns: role to the floor in a new way, move the arm differently that you every have moved them, explore movements of the torso, only move your feet, move on your least favorite level Improv. Painter/canvas Across the floor 123 travel as far as you can 4 leap 5678 role. Make a shape 1234 grow the shape 5678. travel backward 12345678 off the stage.

9. Why should you know dance history? The big four (1910-1945) Martha Graham’s movements arise from the pelvis and is reflected in the rest of the spine, arms, and legs. She made highly structured and sequenced techniques based on contraction and release of the lower torso. “Night Journey, “Appalachian Spring” Doris Humphrey combined a grasp of the intellectual basis of a dance with a depth of feeling and compassion for the human condition. She provided visual balance and patterns on the stage. “With My Red Fire” “Water Study” Charles Weidman choreography was humorous. He was a dancer and pantomimes. Hanya Holm: German born and came to the US to establish a dance school. She worked in theater and choreographed for several musicals. “Kiss Me Kate” and “My Fair Lady”

10. Wednesday 1a and b read Body Intelligence and answer question IB write an improvisation and tell why improvisation to vital for sophisticated dancers Honor work on honors project

11. How does improvisation influence your movement style? Read article on Improvisation Try several of the students improvisations: Dezmon Kelsey Jamaica Joretta Victoria If your name is not listed you must make up an improvisation for the class to perform on Friday. Remember be creative and original, use your imagination, think about metaphors that help explain your ideas India and Courntey Friday and review The Intimate Act of Choreography. Class discussion about new ideas about improvisation.

12. How can dance history relate to your movement style? Warm-up improvisation Perform flowing, soft, sustained, even tempo movements Perform sharp, staccato, fast tempo movements, with moments of stillness Perform grounded movements with movements of suspension Perform jumps, hops, skips, leaps at varying tempos Perform continuous directional changes, indirect focus, heavy body Was your performance good or bad? Why What was your movement style? Where your successful in the all the task why or why not? Begin in a shape using contraction and release. Resist the pull of gravity on your body. Use all levels of movement but never give in to gravity, keep your movement tight, clean, and angular Use gravity to direct your movements. Move slowly and softly threw the space. Fall and recover