Dance

Guidelines:

1. View a live or pre-recorded “live” full-length dance performance, totaling no less than 50 minutes in length.

0. Please note: movie musicals and short Youtube videos are NOT appropriate for the purposes of this assignment.

1. If you attend a live performance take notes...

1. In the pauses between dances, at intermission and after the show.

0. NOT while people are dancing!

1. Choose two or three dances (or sections from a dance that is longer than 50 minutes) to review from the performance.

1. Write a 3-4 page “review” of the dances/sections you chose to view.

Your paper should include:

1. An introductory paragraph

0. To introduce the paper, the concert and the dances you chose to view.

0. This should effectively “frame” the rest of the paper.

1. A minimum of two or three substantial “mini-review” paragraphs.

1. A closing paragraph, summing up your experience and commenting on the overall “value” of the work you witnessed.

Each “mini-review” paragraph should include:

1. the title of the dance

1. the number of dancers performing

1. the style of the dance being performed

Most importantly, the mini-review paragraphs should include descriptive details connected to your personal response or interpretation of that specific dance. You should strive to utilize information and vocabulary from lectures to add depth to your writing. To generate description, consider the following:

1. Choreographic Intention

1. Movement Vocabulary

1. Style – quality and dynamics

1. Choreographic Design, including

3. Time (rhythm, duration, tempo,etc.)

3. Space (shape, spatial pathways, location, directions, etc.)

Questions to help generate your writing:

What did you see? What happened? What details do you remember? What qualities can you identify? How did the movements and associated qualities make you feel? What do you remember most vividly? What ideas came up for you? Did it remind you of anything? How does it influence your thinking about dance? Did it have personal meaning to you? Did it provoke memory or access some connection to your own history? What connections can you find between the dance and your day-to-day life? What concepts discussed in class can you relate to the dances?

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND FORMATTING GUIDELINES:

1. 3-4 pages

0. No less than three FULL pages, meaning...

0. All of the first three pages and at least one full paragraph into the fourth page.

1. Heading of paper

1. single-spaced, top right.

1. Body of paper

2. double-spaced

1. 12 point font

1. No more than one inch margins on all sides – top, bottom, left and right

0. Incorrect formatting will receive an automatic deduction of 1 point.

0. Insufficient description and detail in the written portion will receive a deduction of up to 2 points

0. Multiple errors in spelling and/or grammar will receive a deduction of up to 2 points

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ADDITIONAL FORMATTING GUIDELINES:

1. At the top of your assignment you MUST include the following, single-spaced at the top right corner of your paper:

0. Your Name

0. Intro to Dance: Dance Performance Review – Title of Show or Video

0. Date

FORMATTING EXAMPLE:

TW

Intro to Dance: Dance Concert Review – Alvin Ailey’s Revelations

11/11/11

The body of your paper...

Should be double-spaced.

No extra spaces.

Or huge fonts.

Or other formatting “tricks.”

I will catch them.

Oh yes.

I will.