Hello everyone and welcome to my drama and dance multi-media portfolio. Within this section of my blog I will be posting various activities from my experiences with drama and dance (five for each). Before I get too into sharing and commenting on all these wonderful activities though I wanted to take some time to discuss the guiding theories behind a lot of these activities.
One of the theories I want to mention is Leban's Movement Analysis Theory. This theory states that movement is a two way process of sending and receiving messages with their body movements. Leban's movement theory focuses on the independence of the body and how it can relate to and interact with the world around it. For educational purposes Leban's Movement Analysis Theory emphasizes observation of movement, describing movement, and analyzing movement. Some activities that really benefit from using Leban's theory include tableauxs, flocking, and mirroring.
Focusing on the theories within the Ontario Arts Curriculum we can see the importance of the Creative Process. This process is designed to help students create and interact with art. This is meant to be applied across all strands of art including drama and dance. The stages of the creative process include: challenging and inspiring, imagining and generating, planning and focusing, exploring and experimenting, producing preliminary work, revising and refining, presenting, performing, and sharing, reflecting and evaluating. All of the steps in the creative process have a curriculum expectation that corresponds to it to make it something easier to plan for in a lesson plan format.
Finally from the Ontario Arts Curriculum again we have the Fundamental Concepts of drama and dance. All of these fundamental concepts are listed under the overall expectations for that grade. As students progress their knowledge of these concepts will deepen and through the expectations will be challenged to develop them more. The Elements of Drama include: role, relationship, time and place, tension, focus and emphasis. The Elements of Dance include: body, space, time, energy, and relationship. As we look at drama and dance activities I will be relating which Fundamental Concepts best apply from drama and dance to the activity.
I hope that you will enjoy reading through my explanations, reflections, analysis, and extensions to the upcoming drama and dance activities.
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