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DANCE UNITS - LEVELS 6-8 home > Dance History - level 8: Curriculum links & resources | Teaching and learning sequence
Level 8 unit: Dance History
Overall duration: 20 hours
Curriculum links
This unit is based on the following Level 7 learning example from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum (page 30):
- Identify and research, from a variety of cultures, dance forms that have challenged traditional artistic and aesthetic boundaries, for example American modern and post-modern dance and Japanese butoh.
- Describe the historical origins of each dance form and the ways in which it challenged existing traditions of the period from which it emerged.
Achievement objective
- Strand UC – Understanding Dance in Context: Students will research the ways in which dance explores and reflects social, cultural, and historical issues. Students will research the contribution of selected individuals or groups to dance in New Zealand.
Intended learning outcomes
Students will:
- research three dance forms – modern dance, post-modern dance and Butoh
- describe the origins and development of each dance form
- describe the impact that these dance forms have had on the development of New Zealand contemporary dance.
Resources
Website:
http://www.butoh.net/performers.html
Video:
Texts:
- Time and the Dancing Image by Deborah Jowitt (1988). New York: W.Morrow
- Terpsichore in Sneakers by Sally Banes (1979). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey by Julia Foulkes (2002). North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press.
- Leap of Faith: My Dance Through Life by Shona MacTavish (1997). Dunedin: Longacre Press.
- Ghost Dance by Douglas Wright (2004). Auckland: Penguin Books.
Journal:
- Tirairaka Dance in New Zealand contact DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand) for information on this publication danz@danz.org.nz.
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