Dance As A Fine Art
Knowledge Targets
• I can list the criteria for a fine art.
• I can list the four fine arts.
• I can list the steps for writing a paper and
creating a dance.
• I can define dance.
• I can list and define the categories of dance.
• I can list the genre’s of dance; their evolution.
• I can list the benefits of dance education.
What is Fine Art?
• Art produced primarily for beauty rather than
utility
• 'art' and 'fine art' seem to share a lot in
common, but it is vital to keep in mind the chief
sense of the word 'fine' which means:
• very good of its kind
• high quality
• created by someone superior in skills or
achievement.
The Fine Arts
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Music
Dance
Theatre
Visual Arts
The Arts are:
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A part of life.
A way to make connections.
Deeply embedded in our daily life.
An inseparable part of the human
journey.
Benefit of Art Education
Source: Americans for the Arts, 2002
• Stimulates and develops the imagination and critical thinking, and refines cognitive
and creative skills.
• Has a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has proven
to help level the "learning field" across socio-economic boundaries.
• Strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, adding to overall academic
achievement and school success.
• Develops a sense of craftsmanship, quality task performance, and goal-setting—
skills needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
• Teaches children life skills such as developing an informed perception; articulating a
vision; learning to solve problems and make decisions; building self-confidence and
self-discipline; developing the ability to imagine what might be; and accepting
responsibility to complete tasks from start to finish.
• Nurtures important values, including team-building skills; respecting alternative
viewpoints; and appreciating and being aware of different cultures and traditions.
What is YOUR
Definition of Dance?
DANCE is an expression
of ideas, thoughts, and feelings
through movement.
Basis for Dance
Dance has existed since the beginning
of humankind. Before verbal or written
communication existed, humans used
movement to communicate and to help
them comprehend, shape, and make
meaning of their world. Moving
rhythmically is innate.
Why Might We Dance?
1. Dance is a way of knowing and
communicating.
2. All societies use dance to communicate
on both personal and cultural levels.
3. All societies use dance to meet physical
and spiritual needs.
4. People dance for health, pleasure,
communion, expression, and profit.
Benefits of Dance Education
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Dance provides students with a way of kinesthetically learning
and communicating.
Dance education helps students use movement to creatively
express meaning.
Dance is designed to teach students fundamentals in dance and
choreography.
Dance will help students develop self-discipline and focus.
Through dance, students come to appreciate rich and diverse
cultures, beliefs, and societies.
As students examine the role of dance throughout history and in
different cultures, they learn to respect diversity.
Dance helps people connect with one another and exists in all
cultures and places.
How Can Dance Help
Us in School?
Content integration is a natural
component of the dance program. Students
apply and synthesize knowledge of dance in
relation to other content areas. The dance
program allows students to use movement
as a means for exploring ideas and
concepts, which is especially important for
bodily/kinesthetic learners.
Blooms Taxonomy in Dance!
Benjamin Bloom developed a hierarchy of six levels of
complexity of human thinking. Dancers use all SIX levels in
thinking.
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Knowledge – rote recall of
information
Comprehension – ability to make
sense of information
Application – ability to use learned
information in new situations
Analysis – ability to break
information into parts so its
organization or structure can be
understood.
Synthesis – ability to put parts of
learned information together to
form new plans, patterns, or
structures.
Evaluation – ability to judge the
value of information based on
specific criteria
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Knowledge – memorizing and
learning dance steps and information
Comprehension – when students can
explain or discuss new dance steps
and dance information
Application – when students can
practice and apply new dance
concepts and steps
Analysis – when students can
compare and contrast different
dance styles or forms and when they
break a new dance into phrases to
learn the dance in smaller parts
Synthesis – when students can
compose or create a dance phrase or
dance
Evaluation – when students can look
at a performance and critique it
Choreography &
The Writing Process
Choreography
• Brainstorm ideas
• Research
• tryout movement
• Sequencing into
beginning, middle, &
end
• Revising & rehearsing
• Clean-up/rehearsing
• Performance
• Evaluation
Writing Process
• Brainstorm ideas
• Research
• tryout words or phrases
• Sequencing 1st draft
• Revising
• Editing
• Final Draft/Publication
• Evaluation
What is the difference between learning about
dance and learning to dance?
Learning about dance is the “book stuff”
the history, culture, purpose etc.
Learning to dance is the actual “doing”
of dance.
The Three Ways To Learn Dance:
1. Dive right-in.
2. Creative.
3. Technical.
Dive Right-In
• This method is the method in which folk
dances and social dances are taught.
• Dances usually have limited movement
vocabularies or a minimal selection of
basic steps.
Creative
• The method that celebrates spontaneity,
originality, and individuality through
structured movement.
• Opportunities in which the dancer
continuously invents movement
according to personal preferences.
Technical
• Copycat approach.
• A dance technique that has been identified and
valued as worthwhile for training.
• Celebrates the history and traditions of timehonored training methods; it is not devoted to
inventing new movements but to accurately
repeating a movement syllabus that has been
recognized as a distinct style.
Categories of Dance
1. Recreational/Social
2. Ceremonial/Religious
3. Artistic
Recreational/Social
Social dances are recreational,
traditional, and functional; often they
spring from pleasure. All contribute to a
sense of belonging to a society. The dances
have historical roots but largely reflect the
values and beliefs of those doing the dance.
Social dances allow people to explore
and express their relationship to a group.
Each dance is a bold affirmation that “I
choose you.”
Phases of Social Dance:
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1900’ – 1920’s:
a. Music – Ragtime
b. Dance – Bunny Hug & Grizzly Bear
1920 – 1930:
a. Music –
b. Dance – Tango, Samba, Cha Cha, Charleston & Black Bottom
1930 – 1950’s:
a. Music – Big Band
b. Dance – Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Big Apple, Shag, & Lambeth
1950 – 1970’s:
a. Music – Rock n’ Roll
b. Dance – Twist, Hitchhiker, Swim, Monkey, Pony, & the Jerk
Country & Western:
20th Century:
a. Music –
b. Dance – Disco, Break Dance, & Hip Hop
Recreational/Social
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Anyone can participate
Primary focus is socializing
Technique rules are non-existent
Taught by other participants
Trendy
Allows people to explore and express their
relationship to a group
• it is a bold affirmation: “I choose you,” and
therein lies its power.
Ceremonial/Ritual
Ceremonial/Ritual Dances bring favor to the event.
Example: Native American dances illustrate most
of the purposes of dance that is of a ritualistic or
ceremonial nature: the war dance, expressing prayer
for success and thanksgiving for victory; the dance of
exorcism or healing, performed by shamans to drive
out evil spirits; the dance of invocation, calling on the
gods for help in farming, hunting, the fertility of
human beings and animals, and other tribal
concerns; initiation dances for secret societies;
mimetic dances, illustrating events in tribal history,
legend, or mythology; dances representing cosmic
processes; and, more rarely, the dance of courtship,
an invocation for success in love.
Ceremonial/Ritual
• Part of celebrations/ceremonial
• Can be extremely formalized
• May be performed by “special” people
Artistic
The art of ballet had its beginnings in the
social dances of medieval Europe. As those
dances were brought into the courts, they
became more and more complicated as their
purpose evolved from mere pleasure to include
the political and social gain of nobles and
royalty.
Artistic
• Usually seen on stage/witnessed by
spectators
• Rules about techniques/correctness
• Performed or taught by experts
• Specialized/Trained performers
• Choreographed & Rehearsed
Dance Genre’s:
i.e. the evolution of dance
1. Social
2. Ballet
3. Modern
4. Jazz
5. Musical Theater
6. World Dance
Reasoning Targets:
• I can explain the benefit of art education.
• I can discuss how the writing process and
dance are similar.
• I can evaluate if a work of art is fine art
or not.
• I can discuss how taking a dance class
will help me in school.
QUIZ!!!!
Fine Art or Art?
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