Be a Dance Critic

In Be a Dance Critic, take a closer look at dance videos and record your answers to the Write About It questions in a notebook or a digital document. Use the Dance Word Bank to help with your responses.

Google Drive/Classroom Users: You can go under File and select "Make a Copy" or "Print" to access the Artopia Dance - Write About It worksheet.

 

Dance of the Warriors | Artopia

Video

A Closer Look This dance is part of a film in the Let's Dance series called Nougzar in Georgia. Nougzar and Guiorgui are best friends who love Georgian folk dancing. Georgian male dancers are the only...
Danza del Venado | Artopia

Video

A Closer Look The Danza del Venado tells a story. At first the deer is alone, happily grazing in the forest. When our video clip begins, hunters appear and the deer fights for his life. Watch the...
Peg Leg Bates | Artopia

Video

A Closer Look Peg Leg Bates could leap five feet in the air and perform almost every known tap dance step. He never considered himself handicapped. "God showed me what to do with one leg," he said....
Suspended Falls | Artopia

Video

A Closer Look A waterfall flows, but it also leaps and rolls and turns. It breaks apart and comes back together and it is made up of many drops of water. As the Power Company dancers perform Suspended...
Dance - Write About It Worksheet for Google Docs
Dance - Write About It Worksheet for Google Docs

Interactive

INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the link above to access the Google Docs document. You can go under File and select " Make a Copy" to add to your own Google Drive or " Print." In Be a Dance Critic, take a...
Dance Word Bank | Artopia
Dance Word Bank | Artopia

Document

space – where the body is moving body – what the body is doing time – how the body moves in relation to time dynamics – how the body is moving relationship – with whom or what the body is moving motif...