End-of-year

A Few Reminders!

Dance Classes:

-turn in your Professional Concert Reports
-complete the online Performance Self-Evaluation
-bring/turn in journals
-turn in all make-up work
-Sign up for a concert DVD ($12.81)

We still "dress" even though locks are turned in :)
It is important to come to class every day, especially with group assignments coming up for the final.

Here is the end-of-year calendar that is on the whiteboard.
Note Deadlines

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

End of Term 2

Good Job to the dancers that participated and performed in the Performing Dance Company's Winter Concert!  If you ordered and paid for a dvd, bring your receipt to Mrs. Di Lello to pick up your dvd.


Dance 1, Dance 2, and PDC, there is an extra credit option for you if you complete and submit (or print and turn in) the "Fine Arts Performance Personal Assessment" quiz on UTIPS.

Dance 2 will be offered as UVU Concurrent Enrollment next semester!

Tuesday January 10th
B1: 
-Make Up Work Due
-Ballroom Concert/Competition Report Due (2 pages double spaced)
-Review for Final
B2:
-Make Up Work Due
-Concert Report Due
-Work on Group Compositions for Final
B3:

-Make Up Work Due
-Concert Report Due
-Work on Group History Presentations and Choreography




Thursday January 12th
B1:
-Written Final and Dancing
B2:
-Journals Due
-Final: Written and Dance Compositions
B3:
-Journals Due
-Modern Dance History Presentations with Choreography

Cha cha

Social Dancing Friends:
You can find your video on our ucutips page.  They are You Tube files that can only be accessed if you have the link (which is in our password protected folder in utips).

Please watch, then fill out the self evaluation form and "submit"

This Week
Monday: Practice / Perfect from your video watching :)
Wednesday: Test (wear testing clothes)
Friday: Finish Testing / Review all of our dances

Next Week:
Start the Waltz!

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!

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.