DANCE UNIT AT ISS

AT A GLANCE INTRO ZUMBA WARM UP, MERENGUE INTRO MERENGUE WARM UP, BACHATA INTRO CHOREOGRAPHY CHOREOGRAPHY AND PRESENTATION DANCE PARTY

INTRODUCTION TO DANCE WHAT IS DANCE? TYPES OF DANCE? DANCE OCCASIONS? IMPORTANCE OF DANCE

BY DEFINITION: MOVE RHYTHMICALLY TO MUSIC, TYPICALLY FOLLOWING A SET SEQUENCE OF STEPS. EVOLUTION OF DANCE:

DANCE WARM UPS Warm up: Step by step: La vida es un carnaval: Moves like jagger: Moviendo caderas: Disturbia: Livin la vida loca: Mr. Saxobeat: Limbo: Good feeling: Call me maybe: Roar: Firework:

MERENGUE MARCH MARCH TURN FRAME MARCH DANCE FRAME MARCH TRANSITION TURN F-DANCE F- TURN F TURN LEADER LEFT HAND RAISE ON 3, TURN TURN LEADER RIGHT HAND RAISE ON 3, TURN MAN TURN HAND SWITCH TURN TOGETHER COMBO TWO HAND TURN SWITCH HAND OUTSIDE GO THROUGH THE LOOP TURN AGAIN COMBO

BACHATA MARCH FORWARD IN PLACE WOMAN’S TURN IN 1- RIGHT HAND INSIDE MAN’S TURN IN 5- RIGHT HAND OUTSIDE

DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY REQUIREMENTS: MINIMUM 2:00 MINUTES CLEAN LYRICS INCORPORATE AT LEAST 10 DIFFERENT DANCE STYLES 3 OR 4 PEOPLE PER GROUP BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE (YOU ARE ALLOWED TO REMIX SONGS) CONSTANT MOVEMENT SYMMETRY I WILL FILM YOU

Poor 1 pt. Fair 2 pts. Good 3 pts. Excellent 4 pts. Choreography/ Creativity Shows little sense of creativity and Choreography ability. Movement is stagnant and doesn’t build. Demonstrates some sense of choreography, but dance doesn’t quite grow and fails to compliment music and theme. Demonstrates good choreography skills. Shows interesting formations and patterns and flows with the music. Demonstrates excellent creativity. Shows interesting formations and patterns and presents a story within the piece. Technical Skill Fails to include any dance technique. Veers completely away from assignment. Demonstrates little technique (ie. footwork, quality of movements, body positions, and weight transfer) demonstrated in performance. Doesn't keep to the assignment. Dance performed with attention to most details of technique, but hasn't attained proficiency in dance style yet. Dance performed with great attention to quality of movement, body position, placement on stage and other details of dance. Performance Skills The dancers are not very focused, concentrated or committed to performance. The dancers are generally focused, but only some attempt made to communicate with others on stage or audience. The dancers perform with good energy and effort and communicate with each other and the audience through eye contact, facial and body expression. The dancers create believable characters on stage and are able to engage the audience completely through their performance. They perform with excellent energy and effort. Stimulus Choreographer did not create a dance based on Stimulus. Choreographer uses some elements of the stimuli, but does not stay focused on the theme. Choreographer stays focused on the theme for most of the dance. Choreographer does an excellent job connecting stimulus with the dance. Total Choreography Rubric