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DANCE UNITS - LEVELS 6-8 home > Māori and Pacific Dance - level 7: Curriculum links & resources | Teaching and learning sequence
Level 7 unit: Māori and Pacific Dance
This unit can also be used at level 8
Overall duration: 18 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):
- Identify and view live or recorded dance performances that are by New Zealand choreographers and companies and that reveal the influence of Māori or Pacific dance.
- Critically analyse and respond to the works viewed and discuss the influences of Māori and Pacific dance on the development of contemporary dance in New Zealand.
Achievement objectives
- Strand CI: Communicating and Interpreting in Dance: Students will use critical analysis to inform, interpret, and respond to their own and others' dance performances and dance works.
- Strand UD: Understanding Dance in Context: Students will research the effects of individual, social, and cultural influences on the purposes and forms of dance.
Intended learning outcomes
Students will:
- view dance performances by New Zealand choreographers that focus upon Māori or Pacific influences
- critically analyse dances that have a Māori or Pacific influence
- discuss the role that Māori and Pacific dance has played in the development of New Zealand contemporary dance
- compare the movement training and choreographic processes used in Māori and Pacific dance with western-style dance
- record their findings.
Resources
Texts:
- The Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music, Volume 9 (1998). Editors A.L. Kaeppler & J.W. Love. New York and London: Australia and the Pacific Islands Garland Publishing Inc.
- International Dictionary of Modern Dance (1998). Editor Taryn Benbow-Psalzgras Wheton, Illinois: St James Press.
Videos:
- Ihi FrENZy: The Making of Dance (2003) featuring Te Matarae I Orehu. Wellington: Learning Media, Ministry of Education.
- Poi and Canopy - available for sale from DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand).
- In Full Flight - New Zealand Dance (2003) featuring Mau Pacific Dance Theatre. Auckland: Greenstone Pictures.
Website:
Journal:
- Danz Magazine. Information on this publication is available from DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand) danz@danz.org.nz.
CD-ROM:
- Creative Explorer featuring Neil Ieremia of Black Grace Dance Company. Produced by Learning Media Ltd (LML item number 21239) for Creative New Zealand.
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