FINALS

B1: Aerobics: Thursday May 24th
1) Written Final: Scantron Test.  STUDY GUIDE

B2: Dance 2: Thursday May 24th
1) Written Final: Scantron Test.  STUDY GUIDE
2) Movement Final: Movement Personality Types - Opposites Solo (1+ minute).  Scoring Rubric

B3: Dance 3: Thursday May 24th
1) Written Final: Scantron Test.  STUDY GUIDE
2)  Movement Final:  Famous Choreographer Group Compositions (add on 1+ minute).  Scoring Rubric
VIDEO and MUSIC LINK

B4: PDC: Friday May 25th
1) Written: What I have learned from being on PDC (2 pages typed) OR Blog post with pictures (a couple paragraphs/equal to one typed page).
2)  Assigned Music Composition (1+ minute).  Scoring Rubric
MUSIC LINK

FINES

Fine Lists will be turned in Friday May 18th.

The list will include locks not turned in, costumes not returned and checked in, and concert videos signed up for, but not paid for.

YES, we will keep moving and be in need of appropriate dance clothes after locks are turned in... especially for our movement finals on the finals days!

Dance 2: Rhythm Technique

Dance 2 "unlisted" videos.  Nursery Rhymes Rhythm Combinations (created by students)

Plies:  I'm a Little Tea Pot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbOq9zM24k

Feet: If You're Happy and You Know Clap Your Hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj1RFfynFC4

Legs: Row Row Row Your Boat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzQaRnp6WMI

Jump: Mary Had a Little Lamb:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGLND0DIhPk

PDC Spring Show Order

Concert Starts at 7:00 pm


1. The Space Between (Caine)
2. Children's Clinic (Tuesday) / Timberline (Wednesday)
3. Beth's New
4. I Dare You (Ashley)

5. Caleb ?
6. Puppet
7. Rose

Intermission (with slide show)


8. Accumulation / Deccumulation (Improvisation)
9. UVU?
10. Dance 3
11. Nyah's New
12. Boys?
13. Dollhouse
14. Dance 2

15. Compulsion (Akaysha)
16. NHSDA (Tuesday) / Silent Auction (Wednesday)
17. Senior Dance

Spring Dance Concert!

FRIENDLY REMINDER
as you all head off to forget school on your Spring Break :)

Lp PDC Spring Concert is
Tuesday and Wednesday April 24th and 25th 2012.  
This is mandatory for Dance 2, Dance 3, and PDC. 


Dress Rehearsal is Monday April 23rd after school
Concert starts at 7:00pm
$5, $4 Students, $20 Families (up to 6), 4 and under are free

Please do not miss any class periods prior to the concert as valuable choreography and cleaning work is being done.  Thank You.

A more detailed concert schedule will be coming out soon.

Alwin Nikolais matinee Thursday Feb 2!!!

DANCERS

For those that wanted to go to Ririe-Woodbury's Nikolais performance "Kaleidoscope" please bring your permission slip signed by your parent and the receipt for $3 for the bus.   See you at 11:00 at the front of the school (you will be school excused for B3 and B4).  Bring your lunch to eat on the bus. 

Permission Slip

grades

Please let me know if I accidentally missed one of your assignments.  Please check online.  You can email me if there is a problem. I cannot put in a grade if there is no name.

I am missing a lot of Dance 3 assignments.
-I have an "un-named" blue folder with journal papers (with skateboard drawings on first page)
-There was also a red spiral notebook left in the dance room with no name

Grades will be posted and cut off Sunday evening.

Video Personal Assessments / End of Unit Testing

Update: I "think" everything "should" be up now.  Names are in for your online self-assessment and videos are up and password protected on vimeo.  You can get to the video links through the password protected utips class folder called "Tests and Videos".  Social Dance, there are 2 videos that are still in the process of getting uploaded to the site, but the link is right.  Email me if there is a problem with something.

Social Dance (Foxtrot)
Dance 3 (Body)

There are 3 different graded Assignment for the end of your unit testing:
#1  Online Video Personal Assessment (grade yourself)
#2  Written Unit Test
#3  Practical Skills/Technique Test

For your online Video personal assessment you will need to:
Watch your video:
-go to our dance utips website (http://www.ucutips.org/~dance/)
-find your class folder on the left
-go to "Tests and Videos"
-put in your class password and watch your videos (you may have to put in your class password more than once bc of privacy settings)

After watching your video:
-go back into your class folder "Tests and Videos"
-click on Online Video Self-Assessment
-find your name to log in, or print off assessment
-fill out (you will get full points for being honest and doing it, not the score you give yourself)
-click "submit" at the top left when done.

I will be able to see the time and date you have submitted it.  Please make sure it is done BEFORE your skills test.

Dance Field Trip!!! Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Here is the form for the field trip.
It will be school excused.
Dance Classes are required to attend and do a critique on a professional dance concert as part of their grade for the course, and this one is a discounted matinee!

Parent Chaperons are welcome.  We have 40 tickets reserved for us.  Students will be able to attend this field trip on a first-come first-served basis of when they have their permission forms and receipt turned in to Mrs. Di Lello.

Printable/Download Form
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LPHS Dance Class Field Trip:

“Complexions Contemporary Ballet” Matinee Performance

Tuesday, November 8th 2011 at Kingsbury Hall in SLC

This Performance:

Junior high and high school students are invited to attend Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s student matinee.

"Cross-cultural ballet with attitude. . .wearing toe shoes has never looked like so much fun." —Washington Post

Founded by former Alvin Ailey stars Dwight Roden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions Contemporary Ballet proudly transcends the boundaries of traditional dance, celebrating different styles, cultures, and music to entertain and engage audiences. Don’t miss Richardson, "one of the great modern dancers of his time" according to The New York Times, in his farewell tour!

Graded Assignment: Concert Critique (50 points)

It is a required graded assignment for students in Dance 1, 2, 3 and PDC to attend one university or professional level modern dance concert a semester and write a critique on it.  There are only a couple approved performances available, do not leave it until the last minute at the end of the semester!  This concert performance is approved to count towards the concert report assignment.

Through attending and viewing artistic concert dance, students are able to see professional dancers and professional choreography, thus enhancing their perception, understanding, and appreciation of dance.   Students see new possibilities for dance and what to aspire to when dancing, performing, and choreographing themselves.  There is so much that can be learned through watching.

Cost: $3

These professional concerts usually range from $20-$50 and we, as a school, have the great opportunity to see such companies at a reduced, or even free rate!  There is a minimal transportation charge for the bus at only $5. 

Schedule:  Students are “School Excused” from A1 (at 8:30am) - A3

8:30 am                                    -Meet at front of school to load bus

10:00-11:00 am                        -Performance

approx 11:15-11:30 am             -Leave Kingsbury Hall in SLC (eat your lunch on the bus)

approx 12:00-12:30 pm            -Arrive back at Lp, go directly to your A4 class           

To Attend:

Please come with us to see the performance dressed nice.  Students must travel with us on the bus to and from the concert.   Bring your lunch to eat on the bus on the way home.  Bring pen/pencil and paper. All school rules apply.  

Mrs. Di Lello MUST have the payment receipt and attached permission slip signed by a parent/guardian in order to reserve your seat at this performance, as seating is limited.   Please pay money to Lone Peak High School, re: PDC Workshops / Fieldtrips account.   Due: Thursday Nov 3^rd 2011

Hope to have you join us!

Mrs. Di Lello

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LPHS Dance Class Field Trip:

“Complexions Contemporary Ballet” Matinee Performance

Tuesday, November 8th 2011 at Kingsbury Hall in SLC

I, _____________________________(Parent/Guardian Name), give permission for my son / daughter to travel on the bus and attend this dance concert performance.  I understand that he/she must abide by LPHS rules at all times, or may be sent home at parent’s expense.  I will pay all money due on time.

_______________________________ (Parent/Guardian Signature)

__________________________________                        ________________                        ____________

Student’s Name                                                            Class                                                Period

Emergency Contact / Phone Numbers:

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Upcoming End of Term

Hope you all had a great Fall Break!  Next week will be a busy one with the end of the term coming up.

ALL MAKE UP WORK DUE on/before FRIDAY OCTOBER 28th for Term 1


B1: Social Dance
Monday - Video Foxtrot
Wednesday - Foxtrot Written Test, Foxtrot Dancing Test
Friday - Foxtrot Dancing Test continued.

B2: Dance 1
start new unit

B3: Dance 3
Monday - Video Unit Dances
Wednesday - Dance Testing (Horton laterals, shoulder combo, feet combo, plie combo, adagio, across floor combo)
Friday - Dance Testing continued, Body Written Test, collect journals

B4: PDC
 -Shakespeare Written Report now past due! (2 pages typed)
-Written dance assignment
-Optional PTA "Reflections" contest dance choreography (extra credit).  Due Friday Oct 28 at 3pm.

Dance 1 Video

Hello!

Your videos are up on utips.  Click on: http://www.ucutips.org/~dance/
Go to: "Dance 1" Folder
Go to: "Tests and Videos" (you will be asked to put in our class password)

Click on "Videos" and watch all of your videos

Go back into the "Tests and Videos" folder and click on "video personal assessment"
Click on the appropriate school, teacher, period, and find your name. 
Fill out test and "submit".  If you have problems finding your name or submitting, please print off test, fill out and bring on Wednesday.

Remember: TEST WEDNESDAY!  Wear Testing Clothes!

Dance 1 Videos

HI

I'm busy here at the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, but I am working on converting your videos to be uploaded.  Please be patient.

I hope the "sub" day went well. 


Keep checking back here with directions and updates.  Your watching and personal assessment will be due on UCUTIPS before class on test day (Wednesday)

Social Dance Video and Self Assessment - Triple Swing

JUST KIDDING!!!
My school mac won't let me upload videos from the video camera!!!  Now is the time to problem solve and roll with the punches!


So, we will watch the video in the dance room together first thing Monday B1 on the TV.  Bring your notebook and pencil/pen.  Just have your online personal assessment completed before we test on Wednesday.

~Mrs. D

Previous post, that still has directions to do online assessment test:

Ok dancers of social dance,
Here is the deal: watch the video of yourself dancing, do the personal self-assessment, get POINTS! A simple way towards a great grade in this class :)


Directions:
Go to:  http://www.ucutips.org/~dance/

Go to your class folder on left: "Social Dance"

Go to folder: "Tests and Videos"

Go to: "Videos" and type in our class password (right now it is temporarily: swing)
Watch your video

Go to: "SD Video Personal Assessment"
Sign in (find your district, school, teacher, period, name)
Fill out Personal Assessment and "Submit"

Reminder:  You will get FULL points for filling out the personal assessment and being honest on your rating of yourself, not on the score you give yourself!

Upcoming Tests...

B1: Social Dance:  Video record dancing with your partner Thursday September 22 in class.  You will need to watch your video on my ucutips page with our secret class password and fill out a self-evaluation on ucutips as well.  Monday will be a practice day after having seen your video, and you will be tested on Wednesday.

B2: Dance 1:  We will be finishing our name letter combination in class this week.  Coming up next week we will be having a written test on "body" and "motion" as well as being video-recorded before you actually get tested on your practical skill.  I will video you on Wednesday or Friday next week. 
You will be tested the following week after you have viewed your video on ucutips and completed the online self-assessment.  Remember to keep your journals up to date, as those will be graded and turned in periodically.

Some of our movement skill tests will include: plies/jumps, tendues/degages/grande battemants, across the floor locomotor movements,  improvisation on axial/locomotor movements and body part isolations/initiations, as well as our name combination.

B3: Dance 3:

B4: Performing Dance Company:  We have been working hard on our Shakespeare dances (both being student-choreographed and collaborated on... good job, since some other schools are actually paying to have professionals choreograph their dances, what a great opportunity for you!!!)  2 weeks!

We have also simultaneously been working on the Homecoming Halftime which is this Friday!

Therefore, as soon as Shakespeare is over, we will be having a mandatory big graded assignment for all PDC dancers:  "Proposals".  All dancers will propose a researched and studied topic for a piece of choreography they would like to choreograph.  When proposing, dancers can state how much they would like to choreograph the piece they are presenting for real, but not all will have the opportunity to put their proposal into fruition for this first concert.  Dancers will be graded upon their professionalism in doing the presentation, research put into the subject, 1 minute of choreography to show, creativity and originality, and clear vision of where and how the dance will progress.  Our first concert theme is "Myths and Legends", so all the proposals must be based along those lines.

Make Up Work

Hello!

It's been a whirlwind starting off school.  I hope everyone is doing well and keeping up with homework and attendance.

If not, please be sure to review the school's attendance policy and your class disclosure document in regards to absences and make up work.  Remember to complete make up work withing 2 weeks of your parent-excused absence.  Attendance school does not make up your participation points for your absence.

Make up work options can be found in the "MORE" page tab by clicking on the Make Up Work link for dance.  Printed "Dance Make Up Options" can be found in the dance room for you to take.  They are in the black turning paper holder on the journal shelf.

ABSENT or TARDY?  Please check in with Mrs. Di Lello if you come in late or after Mrs. Di Lello has taken roll to let her know you came in, as class may have already started.  It is your responsibility to make sure your absence is changed to a tardy by the teacher if you came in late.

Keep up your good work.
Be sure to contact me or speak with me if you have problems with your grade or attendance before it gets too late.

~Mrs. D

Website/Disclosure Quiz

Be sure to click "submit" when you are done : )

Social Dance Quiz
Dance 1 Quiz
Dance 3 Quiz

Welcome to the LPHS 2011-2012 School Year

Attention: New Website / Teacher Blog Navigation 
 

To view Mrs. Di Lello's class schedule and contact information,
click on the above tab "Mrs. Di Lello"

To view a particular class disclosure and syllabus,
click on the above class tab (Dance1, Dance 2, Dance 3, Social Dance, Aerobics, or PDC)

To view the dance calendar for my classes and PDC,
click on the above tab "Calendar"

To view other important information including handouts, make-up work, links, etc.,
click on the above tab "More"

I look forward to an exciting, fun, and vigorous year!
~ Mrs. D