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DANCE UNITS - LEVELS 6-8 home > Being a Dance Critic - level 7: Curriculum links & resources | Teaching and learning sequence
Level 7 unit: Being a Dance Critic
Overall duration: 15 lessons (of approximately 50 minutes each)
Curriculum links
This unit is based on the following Level 7 learning example from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum (page 28):
- Discuss the language and approaches used by reviewers and critics in reviewing dance.
- View a live or recorded dance.
- Critically analyse the dance and present a written or oral review of both the work and the performance.
- Compare this review with a review of the same dance by an established dance reviewer or critic.
Achievement objectives
- 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:
- read a selection of dance reviews and analyse the language used by reviewers and critics in reviewing dance
- view a live or recorded dance performance and prepare a written and an oral review of the work
- compare their review with a review of the same dance by an established dance reviewer
- record in a journal the written reviews and the analysis of reviews written by established dance critics
NCEA links
The relevant NCEA achievement standards are listed at the end of each lesson.
Resources
Text:
- Philosophical Problems of Dance Criticism by Julie Van Camp (1981) - doctoral dissertation available from http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/diss.html See Chapter One: Introduction Philosophy and Dance Criticism, and Chapter Five: The Proper Object of Criticism, Skills and Production factors.
Journal:
- Tirairaka: Dance in New Zealand - An annual dance magazine dealing with all aspects of New Zealand dance, including performance reviews. Available from Jan Bolwell, Editor, Tirairaka, 6 Porter Place, Paekakariki. Available in November. Cost - $25 incl. postage.
- Other material on NZ dance is available in DANZnet, published by Dance Aotearoa New Zealand Ltd. For information about costs and publication dates contact info@danznet.co.nz.
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