Units of Study / ARTS ACHIEVE DANCE UNIT: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Tales in Motion

ADAPTATIONS OF CINDERELLA AND BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

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 LESSONS 1-3 | LESSONS 4-7 | LESSONS 8-12 

Lessons 1-3

After a review of basic dance elements such as stationary and locomotor movement, levels, shapes, and pathways, classes focused on spatial relationships. Students explored prepositions with the body in relationship to a rubber floor spot, to another body part, and then to a partner.

Students brainstormed a list of character relationships: parent-child, owner-pet, doctor-patient, star-fan, teacher-students, superhero-villain. Working in small groups, they choreographed two snapshots, or tableaux, to represent their characters’ relationship and a movement transition in between. Students learned to distinguish between literal (everyday) and stylized movement.

They shared and video-documented their mini-narratives and peer-assessed them using the Ladder of Feedback.

Groups revised the structure and content of their work with the support of video footage and peer feedback. 

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Unit Details

Arts Discipline: Dance
Grade: 5, 6
Borough: Bronx

DANCE: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNIT

Tales in Motion

• UNIT SUMMARY

• STANDARDS

• LESSONS 1-3

• LESSONS 4-7

• LESSONS 8-12

• OUTCOMES

• RESOURCES