Dance

WHY DANCE?

* cardiovascular fitness (measured by pulse taking/pedometer)

* fun/social (e.g., school dances)

* cultural (something by which to express your history/culture)

* helps to relieve stress/express feelings

* burns calories

* improves posture, balance, flexibility, co-ordination

* tones muscles

ELEMENTS OF DANCE:

* TIME: tempo, rhythm

* SPACE: self/general; shape; direction; levels; pathways

* EFFORT: force and flow

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GRADE 6: LINE DANCE

"Cupid Shuffle"

"Cha-Cha Slide"

"Cotton-Eye Joe"

"Electric Slide"

Steps:

4 steps to the right/left

4 kicks or heel touches (bleking)

3 point turns left/right

cha-cha-cha

charleston

reverse

"take it back"

hop/jump

grapevine

"slappin' leather"

chasse to the left/right

balance

Other vocabulary:

8 count phrases

choreographer

choreography

antebellum

GRADE 7: SQUARE DANCE

"Virginia Reel"

"Magic Trumpet", or "Waltz Quadrille", or similar square dance

Calls:

Honor your partner/corner

Circle right/left

Circle both

Do-si-so

Chasse

Reel off

Cast off/Split the set/"peel the banana"

Make a bridge

Square your sets

Allemande left

Grand right and left

Promenade

Forward and back

Chain

Other vocabulary:

8 count phrases

longways

head couples/side couples/opposites

choreography

choreographer

caller

GRADE 8: Choreography/Motifs

Students will show evidence (video) of a repeatable, original, 48 count dance motif to chosen music.

Dance has definite beginning, middle, and end. It must match the rhythm pattern of their chosen music.

Students must be able to correctly identify locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movements used. Students

will be able to identify and use at least 3 spatial elements.

Other vocabulary:

motif

force/flow elements

locomotor/non-locomotor (axial) movements

spatial elements

rhythm patterns

SOME RECENT BONNY EAGLE GRADS WHO HAVE GONE ON TO DANCE (Check them out!):

ZACK BETTY: dance major at Marymount Manhattan College; advanced to LasVegas in 2010 edition of

"So You Think You Can Dance"

MORGAN SANBORN: B.A. Dance, Point Park University; dancer with Portland Ballet Company; dance teacher

ALYSSA CADDLE: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University; former Miss Teen Maine whose

platform was dance education for all students; former New England Patriots Cheerleader; dance teacher

RYAN McNALLY: A.A Film, Rock Port College; B.F.A. Dance, Marymount Manhattan College; dancer,

choreographer

STATE AND NATIONAL DANCE STANDARDS:

Maine Learning Results, Visual and Performing Arts; 2007.

National Dance Standards; 1995. (in the process of being updated)

National Physical Education Standards, 2013.