Dance Lessons
All of the following links take you outside of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company website
Students are introduced to the decade of the 1960s as a distinctive social, political and artistic period.
Students learn to find “dance” in everyday life by observing an ordinary scene at their school (i.e.-people working at a desk, studying, or eating lunch) looking for the elements of design, dynamics, spatial
elements, and music.
This workshop exposes students to chance choreographic procedures that came out of the Postmodern movement. Students use Merce Cunningham’s chance method of rolling a dice to reorder a dance phrase and to find
multiple variations.
In this lesson the students are introduced to choreographer Yvonne Rainer, a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater.
This workshop’s focus is to familiarize students with the Postmodern choreographic methods of creating dances from sports and game structures. Students investigate customary movements associated with sports such as
baseball and basketball (swing, toss, and pass), as well as explore inventive ways to abstract sports movement.
Students learn about Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A, which was considered a dance of the people. Students then continue working on their struggle dances (began in the previous lesson).
This lesson focuses on environmental dances and specifically the Happenings of the 1960’s. Through the participation in a Happening, students experience the 1960’s concept that dance which can happen anywhere,
anytime, and include any movement.
Students continue their exploration in alternative spaces for dance. In this lesson students create an outdoor site-specific work. The class discusses Anna Halprin’s philosophies on nature and dance and perform one
of Anna Halprin’s Planet Dances.
Resources for Further Dance Activities
www.pecentral.org - click on ‘lesson ideas’, click on ‘dance’
www.lessonplanet.com - you must register as a member, free for limited access
www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance - click on ‘lesson plans’
www.ket.org/artstoolkit - click on ‘dance’, click on ‘lesson plans’
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