Bound and Free
Chapter navigation:
- Introduction
- Assessment Sheet
- Brief Notes about the Slave Trade in America
- Student Evaluation
- A brief look at Jazz History - The beginnings (1500 - early 1900s)
- Suggested Learning Sequence
- Student Evaluation Answers
Writer: Julie Cadzow
Years 9-10 Level 5 Duration 8 lessons
Where did Jazz dancing come from? Students will be taken back 500 years to discover how Jazz Dancing began, the people involved, and some of the many reasons for its development. They will perform Jazz movements and create a dance contrasting restriction and freedom.
Key Competency
Thinking Students will begin to develop an understanding of the concepts of restriction and freedom and will relate this to the lives of African people during the years of the Slave Trade . They will research dance, learn new dance techniques, select and organise dance movement and communicate new understandings through dance choreography.
Resources
- Videos: Roots (based on the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, by Alex Haley), West Side Story, All that Jazz, Cats
- Discovering Dance DVD - Ministry of Education resource
- Jazz History notes
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Dance Teacher's Tool Kit
practical_differentiation (RTF 93 KB)
action_words (RTF 33 KB)
Using Action Words ; Thinking About Choreography ;oral_responses_cards (RTF 80 KB)
dance_review (RTF 59 KB)
- Music Suggestions: Early Jazz music CDs: The History of Jazz, the Early Days (Distributed by Prism Leisure Corporation); 'It's Ragtime', featuring the music of Scott Joplin (Madacy Entertainment Group. Inc); 'The Very Best of Smooth Jazz' (2002 Universal Classics and Jazz)
- References Stearns, Marshall & Stearns, Jean (1994). Jazz Dance - The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York, Da Capo Press Edition. www.streetswing.com www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_walk
Achievement Objectives
- Understanding Dance in Context (UC): Level 5 Students will compare and contrast dances from a variety of past and present cultures and contexts
- Developing Practical Knowledge in Dance (PK): Level 5 Students will develop a variety of skills, dance techniques, vocabularies and movement practices
- Developing Ideas in Dance (DI): Level 5 Students will manipulate the elements and explore the use of choreographic devices and structures to organise dance movement
- Communicating and Interpreting in Dance (CI): Level 5 Students will reflect on and describe how choreography communicates ideas, feelings, moods and experiences.
Specific Learning Outcomes
- The student can perform selected Jazz dance movements (PK)
- The student can describe the origins of Jazz dancing (UC)
- The student can identify 2 influences on the development of Jazz dancing (UC)
- The student can create movement with and without restrictions in Energy (DI)
- The student can compose movement in a contrasting AB structure (DI)
- The student can present and reflect on dances based on the ideas of restriction and freedom (CI)
Assessing the Learning
- Student Evaluation Assessment: LO2 & 3
- Student Dance reviews
- Assessment Sheet
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