Dance Performance Analysis Guide and Worksheets

Description

Help your students view, describe, interpret, and form thoughtful, articulate opinions about dance performances with this new revised guide – an ideal template for performance reviews, concert analysis essays, dance history lessons, choreography journals, and class discussions! The guide now includes beautiful formatted worksheets to make documenting your observations easier than ever. 

The Holistic Guide to Analyzing Dance Performance makes a great resource for dance appreciation, dance history, introduction to dance, and choreography courses in K-12 schools and colleges. It brings a new depth and perspective when used for watching videos in technique classes, rehearsals, and after-school dance clubs. You can also use the questions as a framework for discussions of student work in composition or choreography classes.

Save yourself the time and hassle of drafting outlines for your students’ papers and discussions, and get this done-for-you tool today!  The guide features questions to help students:

• Observe and analyze the movement, choreography, and spectacle
• Interpret meaning from their observation and analysis
• Consider the context in which the work was created
• Form and articulate their opinion about the piece

….as well as fillable PDF worksheets designed for in-class use or as an organizing tool for their observations.

The guide is recommended for students age 12+ with some dance experience. It is also appropriate for older beginners, such as students in introductory college level courses. This resource is based on my experience as a performer, choreographer, and educator of ballet, modern, musical theatre, jazz, and jazz-derived forms like lyrical and contemporary, and teacher of theory classes such as dance appreciation and dance history. It is designed to be broad enough to apply to a range of dance genres and choreographic styles, but it does come from the perspective of Western concert dance.

Your purchase includes unlimited printing and copying privileges of this PDF document for use with your own classes or within your school or studio, as well as access to the customizable Canva template to create your own version. For unlimited access to the document, please create an account at checkout so that you can log in anytime you need to download and print the document. The document will also be sent in PDF format via email upon completion of order. Please check your spam/other folders for the confirmation emails. You can also follow the prompts on the PayPal payment confirmation page to be redirected back to this site to download the PDF. If you do not receive the email promptly, please check your Spam or Other folders. All sales of digital resources are final. No refunds or exchanges are offered on digital products. Please email shannondoolingdances@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

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