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Level 6 unit: Chairs

Overall duration: 10-12 lessons (of approximately 50 minutes each)

Curriculum links

This unit is based on the following Level 6 learning example from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum (page 27):

  • Improvise movement using a prop (for example, a chair), and record and view the results.
  • Discuss the literal and metaphorical ideas suggested by the use of the prop.
  • Choreograph and perform a dance based on prop manipulation.

Achievement objectives

  • Strand DI - Developing Ideas in Dance: Students will explore and use choreographic processes to give form to dance ideas.
  • Strand CI - Communicating and Interpreting in Dance: Students will apply performance skills and appropriate technologies to enhance communication through dance, and will make critical responses to dance.

Intended learning outcomes

Students will:

  • explore, through improvisation, movement ideas that relate to the use of a specific prop, namely a chair
  • describe, record, and reflect on the results of their explorations in their journals
  • view and respond to dances on film and video that use a chair as a prop
  • in pairs or small groups create and perform a dance using chair/s as a prop.

NCEA links

The relevant NCEA achievement standards are listed at the end of each lesson.

Resources

Videos/DVDs

These are available from most large music/video/DVD retail outlets.

  • Stomp: Out Loud. Saltzman and Jones (producers). Warner Bros: Australia, 1995
  • Cabaret: Bob Fosse (director), Cy Feuer and Harold Nebenzal (producers). Warner Studios
  • Chicago. Rob Marshall (director), Martin Richards (producer). Miramax Films, a Zadan/Meron Production. Distributed by Buena Vista Entertainment.
  • Fosse: A celebration of the choreography of Bob Fosse (Scene 23). Kinberg (producer). Warner Brothers Music: Germany, 2001
  • Ministry of Education (2004). Queen Camel in Contemporary Dance Aotearoa - Three New Zealand Dance Works. Wellington: Learning Media

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