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Dance, Movement and Tableau
Tableau encourages focus and concentration as students learn to be discriminate in selecting concepts and actions. Dance, Movement and Tableau workshops focus on teamwork and problem solving as well as allowing students to explore new rhythms of physical movement.
What do we do?
- Learn the definition, skills, and techniques of tableau through games and activities
- Create tableau presentations in partners and in groups
- Use music to inspire various movement phrases
- Create original dance pieces
Focus on Peace
- Opening circle
- "Talking feather" closing circle
- Group reflection on presentations
- Encouragement of imagination, risk-taking, and group work
Students' Comments:
- "Ballet made me peaceful and happy." - Kindergarten student
- "I learned that I never knew how to dance, act and move so good." - grade 2 student
- "[I learned] that I don't have to be a perfect dancer to learn how to dance." - grade 4 student
- "I loved that you can express yourself just like I did when I said that I took ballet and I showed movements. Nobody made fun of me!" - grade 6 student
- "What I liked about the workshop was that we played lots of fun games, and no one was left out. I especially liked the African dance Rita taught us." - grade 6/7 student
Curriculum Expectations:
| Primary |
- Demonstrate knowledge of movement of natural objects and materials, of movement sequences of specific characters, or movement sequences found in their natural surroundings
- Demonstrate ability to concentrate while in role
- Describe some basic ways the body can be used in space & time
- Identify parts of the body and describe the variety of movements that can be done by each of them
- Identify and use some key elements of drama and dance in exploring source materials
- Demonstrate the ability to move and control their bodies in space and time
- Interpret songs, music, poetry, or images, using elements of movement
- Create dance phrases, showing the beginning and end of their work in appropriate ways
- Create works of drama and dance, using appropriate elements
- Describe and evaluate their own and other's work using appropriate dance and drama vocabulary
- Identify specific aspects of their work and that of others that were effective
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| Junior |
- Create dances, using steps and positions borrowed from a variety of dance forms
- Rehearse and perform small-group drama and dance presentations drawn from novels, poems, stories, plays, and other source materials
- Explain and demonstrate the use of different patterns in creating effects in drama and dance
- Describe the use of sequential patterns in both drama and dance
- Demonstrate the ability to sustain concentration in dance and drama
- Explain drama and dance techniques and use them to convey information and feelings
- Use drama and dance vocabulary in describing and interpreting their own and other's work
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| Intermediate |
- Develop a routine of warm-up exercises and use it regularly before engaging in dance activities
- Communicate abstract ideas though drama and dance
- Create dance compositions based on material explored in drama
- Produce work as a member of an ensemble
- Organize and carry out a group improvisation
- Assemble, rehearse, and perform a collection of drama and dance works based on themes and issues drawn from a variety of sources from diverse cultures
- Describe the significance of drama and dance in their lives
- Use drama and dance vocabulary in analyzing, explaining and critiquing the meaning and effect of their own and other's work
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