Responding

-Recognize how dance can be used to express and understand our inner thoughts and our
understanding of the world around us.

-Investigate a cultural or historical dance form and identify how it communicates artistic, ritual
or social issues, beliefs or values.

-Recognize the role and relevance of dance in their own society through exposure to a variety of
performers and their perspectives.

. -Respond to dance through spoken, written, visual and/or kinesthetic mediums

Creating

-Analyze and integrate the reflections of others into the creative process when evaluating and
improving.

- Investigate and perform a cultural or historical dance form with an understanding of the
function of the dance form as artistic, ritual or social.

- Show physical confidence in the use of their bodies.

- Choreograph performance to express and communicate an idea, feeling, experience,

relationship or narrative.

- Choreograph movement to music, word and sound.

-Perform increasingly more difficult sequences with control.

Units 1 2 How 3 How we 4 Where we 5 Who we are 6 How we organize

Sharing the express are in place ourselves
the world ourselves and time
planet works

Integrating/stand Stand Stand Integrating Stand Integrating Stand alone

alone alone alone LYRICAL Alone BODY SYSTEMS (remaining
TEAM but (poetry) RHYTHM (physical- body objectives of
BONDING touch WORK systems curriculum)
(Social upon the mental- Body
skills) use of image
ENERGY. spiritual- 5
elements)

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understanding of
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ip or s with - Analyze and form with an
narrative. control. integrate the understanding of
reflections of the function of the
others into the dance form as
creative process artistic, ritual or
when evaluating social.
and improving -Recognize the role
and relevance of
dance in their own
society through
exposure to a
variety of
performers and
their perspectives.

Learning - - - - - -
engagements Ice Choreogr A poem will Groups will Understanding our Students will be
breaking aphy on be be made skeletal body given a list of
activities songs of choreograp based on structure through international and
-Team different hed into a whichever isolations and national dance
building speeds dance piece instrument body waves forms to choose
activities will be (Facilitator) they choose. (horizontal, from and perform a
learnt. vertical). Learning research on the
-Group (facilitato -Write a -Each body connections. same.
based r) poem student will
choreogra - create a choreograph -Activities to
phy Connecti dance on it a dance enhance positive -ICT lab will be used
based on ons will (Students) piece to Body images for the first class for
their be made respond to leading to an research.
chosen between OR the chosen improved mental
topic Speed of instrument health about self. -They will present
(students) song- -Create a in a (2nd point in their research to
. Beats- dance piece song/track. curriculum) their peers. This will
Movemen and then (Students) need to include a
t Clarity- write a -Understanding short dance piece or
Energy poetry -The the workings of element of the
about how students the five elements chosen dance form.
it makes will need to of Nature (Water,
you feel. put up one Air, Earth, Sky, -Students will also
(Students) performanc Fire) through be asked to reflect
e within movement. on why they choose
their And how they this dance form.
instrument affect everything
groups around us and
responding how connecting to
to only that them can be used
instrument to enhance our
within the spiritual wellbeing.
track. (Facilitator)
 -They will
then all
perform
together on
their
instrument
in the
ensemble
track.

Duration (10th (26th (11th Oct.– (2nd dec- (21st jan-28th Feb) (2nd March-9th
July – Aug.– 29th Nov.) 24th Jan) April)
23rd 10th
August.) Oct.)
Number of Weeks 8 weeks 7 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 6.5 weeks 6 weeks