Lesson Plan: Connect the Shapes

4.5 The student will employ creativity in a variety of music experiences.
3. Create interpretive movement, individually or in groups.

DM.3 The student will develop dance technique skills and movement vocabulary through replication.
DM.4 The student will perform short movement sequences that employ specific space, shape, time, rhythm, energy, and effort requirements.
DM.6 The student will develop personal movement invention using improvisational skills, including imitation, mirroring, and shadowing.
DM.7 The student will create and perform short choreographic studies that manipulate the elements of space, shape, time, rhythm, energy, and effort.
DM.8 The student will collaboratively create and perform short choreographic studies that use simple compositional forms, including unison, theme and variation, and canon.
DM.17 The student will describe in oral and written form personal work and the work of others in choreography and performance using appropriate dance arts vocabulary and terminology.
DM.18 The student will view live and recorded dance performances and describe the similarities and differences in composition and style through oral and written responses.

1-2 hours, depending on age and choreographic experience of students.

Students use movement vocabulary to create short choreographies inspired by images of dancers from the Library of Congress Collections.