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DANCE UNITS - LEVELS 6-8 home > Flight - level 6: Curriculum links & resources | Intro lessons | Choreographic Task 1 | Task 2 | Task 3

Level 6 unit: Flight

Overall duration: 10-13 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 related to the idea of flight and individually make a movement sequence based on this idea.
  • Teach the movement sequence to a partner, and then together teach the two sets of material to another pair.
  • Decide on an order, and combine the material into a dance that clearly depicts the idea of flight.
  • Perform the dance, and discuss how flight is represented.
  • Finish by reviewing the experience of using the process of collaborative group choreography.

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 improvised movement, ideas related to the idea of flight, create an individual movement sequence and then teach it to a partner
  • teach the two sets of material to another pair, and combine to make a quartet
  • perform the dance and discuss how they decided to represent the idea of flight
  • record reflections in their journals on both the process and the results of collaborative group choreography
  • view, respond to, and record in their journals information on a dance video that uses the theme of flight
  • create dances on the theme of flight that are based on a specific story, painting and/or poem.

NCEA links

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

Resources

Video

  • Fly by Shona McCullagh. Video and teacher notes available from DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand) www.danz.org.nz

Books

  • Ruahine: Mythic Women by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (2003). Wellington: Huia Publishers
  • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Māori Myth and Legend by Margaret Orbell (1995). Christchurch: Canterbury University Press

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