Your dance performance

1. Your dance performance Be Creative - Work together – Have Fun - Rehearse a Lot! By Lien Indigne

2. What do you need? • SEATS • Use the SPACE [levels] • Dance with EFFORT • Actions – certain steps • Stay on the beat – Tempo • Formations – Floor patterns PEOPLE • A group of 6 • A Choreographer • A Creative Designer • A Project Leader • Dancers

3. DANCE • 1 min performance • Create a costume OR use a PROP • Pick a song with Rhythm you can dance to. • Hip Hop moves go well with rap music • Jazz moves go well with popular music • Decide on a FAST or SLOW rhythm (slow is easy, but can be tricky too. Sometimes music can be too fast and difficult to follow)

4. GROUP RESPONSIBILITIES • SHARE YOUR IDEAS • SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS IN YOUR GROUP • RESPECT YOUR LEADERS • HAVE AN OPEN MIND ABOUT WHAT THE DANCE COULD BE LIKE OR LOOK LIKE… • USE YOUR TIME WELL • TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE PROJECT

5. Formations & FLOOR PATTERNSchoose 5 as your frame. • STAGGERED • TOWARD CENTER • AWAY FROM CENTER • DIAGONAL • CURVED LINES • MOVE IN A CIRCLE • STRAIGHT LINES • CIRCLE • ZIG ZAG LINE • STAGGERED • DIAMOND • V OR X

6. required actions: spins – turns – jumps – chainee – box step

7. LevelsUSE LOW – MEDIUM – HIGH LEVELS

8. Your Guiding paper Fill out this form while you are working on your dance. It will help you to include all the Different aspects of a Dance. Your teacher will collect it for you at the end of each class.

9. Creative director • make the dance INTRESTING OR SPECIAL • decide on the theme, the costume or prop, the music, the beginning and ending pose (or act) • decide everything with the choreographer

10. choreographer • Create the dance • Brainstorm different dance steps with the team • Respect and include the different ability levels • Include all required items in the dance • Discuss everything with the creative director

11. Project • Is responsible for the final presentation • Make sure everyone participates and practices • Organizes extra meetings if needed • Contact dancers who miss a practice • Solve problems that arise • Contact teacher when needed

12. dancers • Learn the dance from the choreographer • Listen to instructions and watches demonstrations • Practices the steps and asks for help when difficult • Accepts the steps and routines created by the choreographer and the creative director • Accepts the different abilities of other dancers

13. Rehearse! • WORK TOGETHER AND SHARE IDEAS • BE CREATIVE • TEAM WORK WILL BE ASSESSED • BETTER EASY STEP AND TOGETHER, THEN DIFFICULT STEPS THAT NO BODY CAN PERFORM. • THE QUALITY OF YOUR PERFORMANCE WILL BE EQUAL TO THE EFFORT YOU PUT INTO IT

14. ASSESSMENT • DAILY PROJECT REPORT BY THE PROJECT LEADER • GROUP ASSESSMENT ON TEAM MEMBERS CONTRIBUTIONS • INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT OF ALL TEAM MEMBERS • SELF ASSESSMENT ON DANCE SKILL • HOW DO PERFORM ON STAGE? • DO YOU LOOK AT OTHER DANCERS TO REMEMBER THE ROUTINE? • HOW ARE YOU PERFORMING THE DANCE STEPS? • DO YOU STAY ON THE BEAT?

15. GROUPS • READ THE RESPONSIBILITIES ON HAIKU • DECIDE WHAT JOB YOU WANT TO DO • PROPOSE YOUR GROUPS TO ME BY EMAIL! • I WILL DECIDE WHICH GROUPS ARE ACCEPTED • SOME GROUPS MIGHT NEED TO CHANGE A FEW MEMBERS IN THE GROUP. • WE WILL START PRACTICE ON MONDAY