Your dance performance

Be Creative - Work together – Have Fun -

Rehearse a Lot!

By Lien Indigne

What do you need?

PEOPLE

A group of 6

A Choreographer

A Creative Designer

A Project Leader

Dancers

SEATS

Use the SPACE [levels]

Dance with EFFORT

Actions – certain steps

Stay on the beat –

Tempo

Formations – Floor

patterns

DANCE

1

min performance

C

reate a costume OR use a PROP

P

ick a song with Rhythm you can dance to.• Hip Hop moves go well with rap music• Jazz moves go well with popular music• Decide on a FAST or SLOW rhythm (slow is easy,

but can be tricky too. Sometimes music can be too fast and difficult to follow)

GROUP RESPONSIBILITIES

S

HARE YOUR IDEAS

S

UPPORT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS IN YOUR GROUP

R

ESPECT YOUR LEADERS

H

AVE AN OPEN MIND ABOUT WHAT THE DANCE COULD BE LIKE OR LOOK

LIKE…

U

SE YOUR TIME WELL

T

AKE OWNERSHIP OF THE PROJECT

Formations & FLOOR PATTERNSchoose 5 as your frame

.S

TRAIGHT LINES

C

IRCLE

Z

IG ZAG LINE

S

TAGGERED

D

IAMOND

V

OR X

STAGGERED

TOWARD CENTER

AWAY FROM CENTER

DIAGONAL

CURVED LINES

MOVE IN A CIRCLE

required actions: spins – turns – jumps – chainee – box step

LevelsUSE LOW – MEDIUM – HIGH LEVELS

Your Guiding paper

Fill out this form while you are working on your dance. It will help you to include all theDifferent aspects of a Dance. Your teacher will collect it for you at the end of each class.

Creative director

make the dance INTRESTING OR SPECIAL

decide on the theme, the costume or prop,

the music, the beginning and ending pose

(or act)

decide everything with the choreographer

choreographer

C

reate the dance

B

rainstorm different dance steps with the team

R

espect and include the different ability levels

I

nclude all required items in the dance

D

iscuss everything with the creative director

Project I

s responsible for the final presentation

M

ake sure everyone participates and practices

O

rganizes extra meetings if needed

C

ontact dancers who miss a practice

S

olve problems that arise

C

ontact teacher when needed

dancersL

earn the dance from the choreographer

L

isten to instructions and watches demonstrations

P

ractices the steps and asks for help when difficult

A

ccepts the steps and routines created by the choreographer and the

creative director

A

ccepts the different abilities of other dancers

Rehearse!W

ORK TOGETHER AND SHARE IDEAS

B

E CREATIVE

T

EAM WORK WILL BE ASSESSED

B

ETTER EASY STEP AND TOGETHER, THEN DIFFICULT STEPS THAT NO BODY

CAN PERFORM.

T

HE QUALITY OF YOUR PERFORMANCE WILL BE EQUAL TO THE EFFORT YOU

PUT INTO IT

ASSESSMENT

D

AILY PROJECT REPORT BY THE PROJECT LEADER

G

ROUP ASSESSMENT ON TEAM MEMBERS CONTRIBUTIONS

I

NDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT OF ALL TEAM MEMBERS

S

ELF ASSESSMENT ON DANCE SKILL • HOW DO PERFORM ON STAGE?• DO YOU LOOK AT OTHER DANCERS TO REMEMBER THE ROUTINE?• HOW ARE YOU PERFORMING THE DANCE STEPS? • DO YOU STAY ON THE BEAT?

GROUPSR

EAD THE RESPONSIBILITIES ON HAIKU

D

ECIDE WHAT JOB YOU WANT TO DO

P

ROPOSE YOUR GROUPS TO ME BY EMAIL!

I

WILL DECIDE WHICH GROUPS ARE ACCEPTED

S

OME GROUPS MIGHT NEED TO CHANGE A FEW MEMBERS IN THE

GROUP.

W

E WILL START PRACTICE ON MONDAY