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We Rise-Racial Justice Through Hip Hop Movement (Grade 6, 7, 8)

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Dimensional Dance

Available to Grade(s): 6 , 7 , 8
Art Form: Dance	Curriculum Focus: Social Studies
Program Type: Grade Level Program	Integration Continuum Level: Alignment
# of Visits as a Grade Level Program: 1	Length of Visit (Grade Level Program): 60 min
Program Format: In-School Workshop	Program Format Info:
Availability: All year	Location: In-School, Virtual
Cost Per Student: $5	Minimum # of Students Needed In Order to Book This Program: 0
Program Requires Prior Meeting: yes	Meeting Method: Email
Materials Arts Provider Provides: music, hip hop and choreography lesson
Materials School Provides: large poster paper (two for each class) and markers
Space and/or Set Up Requirements for Program: tables and chairs pushed back from center of room so plenty of space to safely move preferably before I arrive
Program Learning Objective: I can understand the basics of hip hop dance. I can understand racial justice. I can choreograph to express feelings and ideas.
Program Description: We will watch an excerpt of Revelations by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (preferably a second time in class and one time before we meet). We will discuss its racial justice themes and cultural significance. After doing a brief warm up, Dimensional Dancer/Hartford Resident, Savana Jones and Dimensional Dance Director, Ruth Lewis will help the students build a basic choreography and add some hip hop vocabulary while exploring the social justice themed poems Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, I Too Am America by Langston Hughes, or the teacher (s) can choose a different social justice story or poem on which to base their choreography.

Core & National Art Standards:

Grade 6

Grade 6: Civics: Processes, Rules and Laws: 6"“7.3 Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies and promoting the common good.

Grade 6: Dance: Performing: Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. A: Refine partner and ensemble skills in the ability to judge distance and spatial design. Establish diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space

Grade 7

Grade 7; Civics: Processes, Rules and Laws: 6"“7.3 Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies and promoting the common good.

Grade 7: Dance: Performing: Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. A. Expand movement vocabulary of floor and air pattern designs. Incorporate and modify body designs from different dance genres and styles for the purpose of expanding movement vocabulary to include differently designed shapes and movements for interest and contrast.

Grade 8

Grade 8: Civics: Processes, Rules, and Laws: 8.4 Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.

Grade 8: Dance: Creating: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. A. Collaborate to select and apply a variety of choreographic devices and dance structures to choreograph an original dance study or dance with a clear artistic intent. Articulate the group process for making movement and structural choices.

Grade 8: Dance: Responding: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. B. Explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent. Use genre specific dance terminology

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We Rise-Racial Justice Through Hip Hop Movement (Grade 6, 7, 8)

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