So the information below is an overview of the Outcome and then specific lists of criteria for Choreography, Rehearsal and Performance. You must show an understanding of the processes you used in each of these areas.
I am marking processes you identify so name them ie) for selection of expressive intention you need to name the process of Brainstorming, for example. Or the process of writing your Glefts and Skills table. Then describe what you did with specific examples. Always, always specific examples.
AREA OF STUDY 2
Choreography, performance and dance-making analysis This area of study focuses on choreography and performance of a solo dance work. Students study ways of creating a personal movement vocabulary which is then arranged into related phrases and sections to create expressive formal structures to communicate an expressive intention. The student’s choice of expressive intention facilitates the expressive execution of a diverse range of body actions and manipulations of the elements of movement through the safe use of a wide range of technical and physical skills. Students analyse and document ways phrases are formed, including use of movement creation processes, choreographic devices, choreographic manipulations of the elements of movement, and the expressive use of body actions through the safe use of technical and physical skills. Dancemaking and performance processes used to choreograph, rehearse and perform the student’s solo dancework are identified and documented.
Outcome 2 On completion of this unit the student should be able to choreograph, rehearse and perform a solo dance work using a personal movement vocabulary and technical, physical and performance skills to communicate their expressive intention, and analyse the processes used to choreograph, rehearse and perform the dance work. To achieve this outcome the student will draw on knowledge and related skills outlined in area of study 2.
Key knowledge This knowledge includes
Choreography, rehearsal and performance of a solo dance work Choreography • selection and development of an expressive intention; • ways of manipulating the elements of movement to create related movement phrases; • movement creation processes including improvisation, selection, arrangement, refinement, evaluation(ISARE) and a range of choreographic devices; • choreographic devices such as abstraction, repetition, motif, addition, accumulation, inversion, distortion, and retrograde; • creation of a range of expressive body actions including gesture, locomotion, elevation, falling, turning and stillness, choreographed to demonstrate technical and physical skills including alignment, coordination, balance, strength, control, flexibility, stamina and transference of weight; • ways of creating related movement phrases and sections used to communicate their expressive intention, (form: Beginning, Development, Resolution); • formal structures which facilitate the communication of their expressive intention.
Rehearsal • rehearsal processes and skills. This is all the VCE Study Guide gives you;
Lets add some rehearsal processes in here. Rehearsing relates to the part of the process where you have finished your choreography and you are now refining. Be careful that you do not confuse choreographic processes and rehearsal process.
Rehearsal processes are primarily about repetition and refining the choreography you already have and adjectives such as reassessing and re-evaluating.
What do we refine and how and why? We refine
the movement vocabulary, did you repeat the steps to get the more challenging ones correct? feedback from others, self-correction of technical skills? Or falls or elevations. Did you need to use the mirror to rehearse your movements? Video yourself? How did you refine your body actions and physical skills? Make sure you have examples.
your use of time, space and energy. What adjustments did you make after you finished your choreography to your speed, tempo, duration, bound or free flow, strong or light force to better express your intention.
phrases, sections and links. How did you refine the structure and form of your dance. Be careful to not discuss the choreography stage here, you are thinking about what you refined after arranging your dance? Did you perform your solo a few times to feel the flow and how the expressive intention was being communicated and need to make any structural adjustments or refinements? This is what is needed here.
Any other refinements you can think of regarding your solo go in this section ie choreographic devices, expressive intention.
AND WHY DO WE REFINE? TO EXPRESS THE INTENTION AS CLEARLY AS WE CAN. So after each example YOU MUST LINK TO EXPRESSIVE INTENTION!!!
Performance • pre-performance processes and skills;
Warm up of specific muscle groups, running and cardio for increased blood flow to the muscles then stretching both static (still; held stretches) and dynamic (moving; spinal rolls, plies etc).
Mental preparation; run through in your mind, quietening down to focus on performance. Imagining yourself performing the way you want to. Listening to your music and having a mental rehearsal.
Run through (or mark) in the space for spacial accuracy, for any costume concerns (perhaps not necessary).
Checking your music works, is cued.
Any other preparations you need before you start.
• performance processes and skills.
Maintenance of movement vocabulary, elements of movement, form, expressive intention, spacial accuracy. Did you maintain your technical skills? Were your body actions expressively performed? If you did not maintain your solo throughout, when were the specific examples of when you did not perform as you had choreographed and why?
Focus, were you focussed throughout the performance, if not why? What got your focus back. Eye, head and body focus to be discussed too.
Facial expression, performance quality. Did you perform your solo with expression through the face as well as the body.
The notes below are the same information said in a different way. Not new information. Dance-making analysis • dance design including the relationship between expressive intention, movement vocabulary and form; • the movement creation processes, choreographic devices, safe use of technical and physical skills, expressive use of body actions, elements of movement and movement phrases, sections, and formal structures • dance-making and performance processes used in choreographing, rehearsing and performing a solo dance work to communicate their expressive intention; • appropriate terminology.
Key skills
These skills include the ability to Choreography, rehearsal and performance of a solo dance work
Choreography • select and develop an expressive intention for a solo dance work which facilitates the execution of a diverse range of expressive body actions, and manipulations of the elements of movement, through the safe use of a wide range of complex technical and physical skills; • manipulate body actions and the elements of movement in a range of ways to create related movement phrases which communicate the student’s expressive intention and demonstrate their technical and physical skills; • arrange movement vocabulary to create related phrases and sections to communicate their expressive intention and demonstrate their technical and physical skills; • select and develop a formal structure which facilitates the communication of the expressive intention in their solo dance work; • use a range of movement selection processes and choreographic devices to create an expressive personal movement vocabulary.
Rehearsal • effectively employ rehearsal processes and demonstrate skills in rehearsing their solo dance work. Performance • effectively employ pre-performance and performance processes and perform their solo dance work. Dance-making analysis • analyse dance design of own solo dance work; • document and analyse the development of the expressive intention, use of movement creation processes, choreographic devices, technical and physical skills, body actions, variations of the elements of movement and related movement phrases, sections, and formal structures used to communicate their expressive intention in own solo dance work; • document and analyse the dance-making and performance processes of choreographing, rehearsing and performing used to communicate their expressive intention in own solo dance work; • use appropriate terminology.
So the information below is an overview of the Outcome and then specific lists of criteria for Choreography, Rehearsal and Performance. You must show an understanding of the processes you used in each of these areas.
I am marking processes you identify so name them ie) for selection of expressive intention you need to name the process of Brainstorming, for example. Or the process of writing your Glefts and Skills table. Then describe what you did with specific examples. Always, always specific examples.
AREA OF STUDY 2
Choreography, performance and dance-making analysis
This area of study focuses on choreography and performance of a solo dance work. Students study
ways of creating a personal movement vocabulary which is then arranged into related phrases and
sections to create expressive formal structures to communicate an expressive intention. The student’s choice of expressive intention facilitates the expressive execution of a diverse range of body actions and manipulations of the elements of movement through the safe use of a wide range of technical and physical skills. Students analyse and document ways phrases are formed, including use of movement creation processes, choreographic devices, choreographic manipulations of the elements of movement, and the expressive use of body actions through the safe use of technical and physical skills. Dancemaking and performance processes used to choreograph, rehearse and perform the student’s solo dancework are identified and documented.
Outcome 2
On completion of this unit the student should be able to choreograph, rehearse and perform a solo
dance work using a personal movement vocabulary and technical, physical and performance skills to communicate their expressive intention, and analyse the processes used to choreograph, rehearse and perform the dance work.
To achieve this outcome the student will draw on knowledge and related skills outlined in area of
study 2.
Key knowledge
This knowledge includes
Choreography, rehearsal and performance of a solo dance work
Choreography
• selection and development of an expressive intention;
• ways of manipulating the elements of movement to create related movement phrases;
• movement creation processes including improvisation, selection, arrangement, refinement, evaluation(ISARE) and a range of choreographic devices;
• choreographic devices such as abstraction, repetition, motif, addition, accumulation, inversion,
distortion, and retrograde;
• creation of a range of expressive body actions including gesture, locomotion, elevation, falling,
turning and stillness, choreographed to demonstrate technical and physical skills including alignment, coordination, balance, strength, control, flexibility, stamina and transference of weight;
• ways of creating related movement phrases and sections used to communicate their expressive
intention, (form: Beginning, Development, Resolution);
• formal structures which facilitate the communication of their expressive intention.
Rehearsal
• rehearsal processes and skills.
This is all the VCE Study Guide gives you;
Lets add some rehearsal processes in here. Rehearsing relates to the part of the process where you have finished your choreography and you are now refining. Be careful that you do not confuse choreographic processes and rehearsal process.
Rehearsal processes are primarily about repetition and refining the choreography you already have and adjectives such as reassessing and re-evaluating.
What do we refine and how and why?
We refine
AND WHY DO WE REFINE? TO EXPRESS THE INTENTION AS CLEARLY AS WE CAN.
So after each example YOU MUST LINK TO EXPRESSIVE INTENTION!!!
Performance
• pre-performance processes and skills;
• performance processes and skills.
The notes below are the same information said in a different way. Not new information.
Dance-making analysis
• dance design including the relationship between expressive intention, movement vocabulary and form;
• the movement creation processes, choreographic devices, safe use of technical and physical skills, expressive use of body actions, elements of movement and movement phrases, sections, and formal structures
• dance-making and performance processes used in choreographing, rehearsing and performing a solo dance work to communicate their expressive intention;
• appropriate terminology.
Key skills
These skills include the ability to
Choreography, rehearsal and performance of a solo dance work
Choreography
• select and develop an expressive intention for a solo dance work which facilitates the execution
of a diverse range of expressive body actions, and manipulations of the elements of movement,
through the safe use of a wide range of complex technical and physical skills;
• manipulate body actions and the elements of movement in a range of ways to create related
movement phrases which communicate the student’s expressive intention and demonstrate their
technical and physical skills;
• arrange movement vocabulary to create related phrases and sections to communicate their expressive intention and demonstrate their technical and physical skills;
• select and develop a formal structure which facilitates the communication of the expressive intention in their solo dance work;
• use a range of movement selection processes and choreographic devices to create an expressive
personal movement vocabulary.
Rehearsal
• effectively employ rehearsal processes and demonstrate skills in rehearsing their solo dance
work.
Performance
• effectively employ pre-performance and performance processes and perform their solo dance
work.
Dance-making analysis
• analyse dance design of own solo dance work;
• document and analyse the development of the expressive intention, use of movement creation
processes, choreographic devices, technical and physical skills, body actions, variations of the
elements of movement and related movement phrases, sections, and formal structures used to
communicate their expressive intention in own solo dance work;
• document and analyse the dance-making and performance processes of choreographing, rehearsing
and performing used to communicate their expressive intention in own solo dance work;
• use appropriate terminology.