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Jazz Dance: The History, Music and Movement

by  The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts

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In this offering, students get to experience relationships between themselves and others, jazz music and dance, and American history, through exploring simple, grooving rhythmic movements and using them to interact with one another and improvise. Learn how jazz was born from a combination of African and European movement styles to create a uniquely American approach to dance.

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About This Program

Cost

By Request: $150.00
By Request Premium: $150.00


An invoice will be sent within one week following the completed program session(s). For questions regarding your invoice, please email Tameka Davidson, education@thecowlescenter.org

Length

60 Minutes


Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Parent, Adult LearnersPublic Library: Library Patrons

Minimum participants:

6

Maximum participants:

30


Primary Disciplines

Career Education, Character Education, Community Interests, Fine Arts, Foreign/World Languages, Health/Physical Education, International, Performing Arts, Problem Solving, Social Studies/History Dance


Program Delivery Mode

Zoom or Google Meet



Booking Information

This program is available Monday-Friday between 9:00-4:00 PM CST

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Provider's Cancellation Policy

We will not charge for programs cancelled due to nature i.e. snow days. The full fee will be charged to sites which cancel with less than 48 hours notice.

About This Provider

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The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts

Minneapolis, MN
United States

The Cowles Center is a dance and performing arts hub that promotes movement and growth through supportive space to create and collaborate, engages audiences through dynamic performances, and educates artists of all ages through robust and inclusive education and community engagement programming.

We program an exciting season annually, representing more than 20 local artists and companies that showcase the depth and breadth of the Twin Cities' professional dance scene. 

We partner with artists and companies in our season by providing free marketing and production support, letting the artists focus on their performances. 

We educate through robust, high-quality arts learning programs serving students of all ages, statewide, via residencies, workshops, and student matinees. 

We support the growth and life-cycle of dancers and companies through our below-market-rate offices, studios and stages; and through community engagement programs, McKnight Fellowships, and our MERGES co-production program. 

Contact:
Tameka Davidson
education@thecowlescenter.org
612-512-5918

Program Details

Format

This offering, from one session to several, can be tailored to focus on particular periods in history and/ or connecting them together, and can be structured to focus mostly on movement or as a mix of kinesthetic and lecture-discussion-based learning. Session/s will include a warm-up, the learning of selected concepts and steps, and a movement combination linking them all together, with historical and sociocultural information shared along the way. This program can be tailored to work well for K-12 learners and adults of various experience levels.

Objectives

Participants will explore the connection between their own bodies and jazz music, appreciate the capacity for one another to make differing improvised movement choices when relating to the same piece of music and consider how learned steps interact with history.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

National Standards:
Content Standard: 1: Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance
- Students accurately identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions, and patterns for dance from two different styles or traditions
- Students demonstrate accurate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences
- Students describe the action and movement elements observed in a dance, using appropriate movement/dance vocabulary

Content Standard: 3: Understanding dance as a way to create and communicate meaning
- Students observe and explain how different accompaniment (such as sound, music, spoken text) can affect the meaning of a dance

Content Standard: 5: Demonstrating and understanding dance in various cultures and historical periods
- Students competently perform folk and/or classical dances from various cultures; describe similarities and differences in steps and movement styles