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Dance/Fine Arts 7,8 (5087, 5088) | |||
| Grade Range: | |
| 11–12 | |
| Prerequisites: | |
| Dance/Fine Arts 5,6 (Required or teacher recommendation) | |
| Course duration: | |
| Two semesters | |
| Subject area in which graduation credit will be given: | |
| Visual/Performing/Fine Arts | |
| UC subject area satisfied: | |
| f - Visual and Performing Arts | |
| Course Description: | |
| Dance 7,8 is the culmination of the dance education of the advanced dance student. It connects their performance skills with their ability to investigate and solve dance challenges in a sophisticated manner and requires subject research of specified technique. They develop an expanded knowledge of dance technique and vocabulary. Students conduct research and analyze dance repertoire. Students perform dance phrases integrating a professional level of rehearsal etiquette/protocols, technical skill and intent. Students create intricate movement combinations/compositions using dance structures, musical forms, and technology with artistry. Students notate these dance combinations/compositions using established forms or their own personal system. Students evaluate intellectually challenging live and/or recorded performances using sophisticated analysis. Assessment is live and evaluated by the teacher of record with a performance rubric. | |
| State Course Code(s): | |
| 9080 - Dance | |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: | |
| Sofras, Dance Composition Basics: Capturing the Choreographer’s Craft, Human Kinetics, 2006 Blom and Chaplin, The Intimate Act of Choreography, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982 Minton, Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation, Human Kinetics, 2007 Humphrey, The Art of Making Dances, Princeton Book Company, 1987 | |