"Dance About Anything" helps K-12 teachers learn the creative
process for developing movement and dance around a theme--and how
to integrate dance with other subjects. The book follows a logical
progression of movement activities, increasing in complexity from
inspiration and dance design to exhibition of the integrated
project. It provides all the materials for teachers to facilitate
the creative and critical-thinking skills related to planning
integrated projects:
-Students explore the dance-making process through seven
easy-to-follow tasks that take them from inspiration and choosing a
theme to solving movement problems and making movement phrases,
culminating with work that involves dance design, revisions, and
performance.
-Students integrate dance with other subject areas such as
science, math, social studies, visual arts, theater, language arts,
and music.
-Students work through integrated projects involving multiple
subjects around a common theme. They learn how to transfer the work
habits and strategies they learn through dance making to their work
in other subjects, and then they showcase their work.
"Dance About Anything" is organized into four parts. Part I
outlines the creative process of choosing a theme for a dance and
explains how movement phrases can be developed from almost any
inspiration. Part II lays out the remaining tasks and steps on the
path to exhibition.
Part III shows how to develop and implement integrated projects.
It discusses practical concerns about who, what, how, when, and
where and provides a step-by-step guide for project completion.
Part IV details three ready-to-use integrated projects with themes
(weather, community, and prejudice and human rights). These are
semester-length projects and can be used in advocating for
awareness of the value of dance, connecting with other subjects,
and getting students to work together on a unifying theme.
The included CD-ROM provides more than 65 reproducible forms
that fuel students' creativity and aid teachers in assessment.
Among the forms are 8 Inspiration Activity Cards and 8 Dance
Designing Activity Cards that cover a variety of themes, including
those of the three complete projects provided in the book. The book
includes ideas for written and oral assessment of students'
progress, and the CD-ROM provides teachers with assessment forms
for doing so. In addition, a template of integrated projects is
included that gives readers an opportunity to create their own
integrated projects, such as those found in part IV of the
book.
"Dance About Anything" provides the information and guidance
that teachers and students need in order to become dance
architects, designing and building dances and integrated projects
from start to finish.
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