Havergal's Uncalendar, 2016-2017 Academic Year

THE ARTS

DANCE

GRADE 11 ATC3O2 – Dance, Grade 11, Open Semestered

0.5 CREDIT In the Grade 11 Dance course, you will have many opportunities to develop your movement skills. You will be exposed to and participate in a variety dance forms and styles including jazz, modern, hip hop, tap, African and bellydance. You will learn the elements of movement and how to use them effectively to create your own dances. You will have opportunities to collaborate with others and combine the elements of movement in many interesting ways. You will learn how to talk and write about the dances you see in the classroom and at a live performance at a Toronto theatre. At the end of the course, working with others, you will take everything you have learned and choreograph a longer dance to perform for a larger audience. You do not need any dance experience to take this course—you just need to be willing to try.

DRAMATIC ARTS

GRADE 7 Grade 7 Drama “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” —Thornton Wilder The Grade 7 Drama course at Havergal seeks to cultivate and enhance students’ creative potentials. It provides them with an opportunity to explore emotions, to use their imaginations and their bodies to create other worlds, and to work with other members of a group in investigating traditional and non- traditional dramatic forms. This course will help students develop the confidence to think on their feet, problem solve, work collaboratively with others, meet deadlines, take safe risks, challenge themselves, and appreciate the lives of others by having “walked in their shoes.” In Grade 7 Drama, there is a heavy focus on physicality and becoming comfortable with telling stories through our bodies. Success in the Drama classroom means fully participating in activities, learning to work with peers creatively, and giving and implementing thoughtful feedback.

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