Welcome to the Unit!
With this Unit, our class will be putting together a student choreographed showcase to be performed for an audience. You will be using poetry from your peers along with poetry from famous poets to influence your choreography. The choreography will be accompanied by music, sound, and/or spoken word; free to your choosing and teacher approval.
You will be the choreographers, and dancers, in groups of 2-4 students. This will be a collaborative poetry choreography project. The poems being used will be written by our class and distributed at random, nameless, to the different groups. Each group will be responsible for finding a poem by a famous poet that correlates with the student poem; whether it matches or contrasts is your choice.
As choreographers, you will be required to consider and utilize the BSTER (body, space, time, energy, and relationship) principles we have previously learned.
Through choreography, you will be discovering how to make written word and expression "come to life."
What are our essential questions you might ask? Well here they are:How do dance and poetry compare and differ?
How did your personal connection with the poetry affect your choreography?
What would be different if you choreographed alone instead of in groups?
Go ahead and move on to the next tab to see the rest of this unit!
You will be the choreographers, and dancers, in groups of 2-4 students. This will be a collaborative poetry choreography project. The poems being used will be written by our class and distributed at random, nameless, to the different groups. Each group will be responsible for finding a poem by a famous poet that correlates with the student poem; whether it matches or contrasts is your choice.
As choreographers, you will be required to consider and utilize the BSTER (body, space, time, energy, and relationship) principles we have previously learned.
Through choreography, you will be discovering how to make written word and expression "come to life."
What are our essential questions you might ask? Well here they are:How do dance and poetry compare and differ?
How did your personal connection with the poetry affect your choreography?
What would be different if you choreographed alone instead of in groups?
Go ahead and move on to the next tab to see the rest of this unit!