Guest Artist: Geri Brown

 

 Geri Brown

 


I

Warm Up

 

II

Unit: Guest Artist

Theme: Hip Hop

 

Introduction

Geri Brown has been invited to our class to share with us her experience in Hip Hop dance and other issues such as equity in dance teaching and performance.

 

III

Learning Objectives

 

  • Understand the importance of the warm up
  • Explain the use of Hip Hop in Modern Dance
  • Gain awareness of how hip hop can inform modern dance 
  • Experience the input of another dance style

 

IV

Main Lesson

 

1

Barriers to dancers

Sports Science

 

2

Dance History

1526 First Africans that made it to America via Spanish conquerors

Hip Hop Dance (bent knees, groove, and bouncing)

Reconstruction 1865 - 1877

 

3

Improvisation

 Sir Duke (Steve Wonder)


4

Abraham Lincoln (Wanted to send people back to Africa after freedom)

Civil War 


 5

Improvisation

 Sir Duke (Steve Wonder)

 

6

The South was winning

 

7

 Sir Duke (Steve Wonder)

 

8

Andrew Johnson (President)

Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)

Free Men's Bureau

 Jim Craw Laws

Ida B. Wells


Question 1

How do all of the events mentioned above relate to Hip Hop dance today?

 

9

African Diaspora

 Vernacular Authentic or Modern , what is Jazz Dance

Cakewalk (where enslaved people imitated their owners)


Video (See below in Case Study section)


The Great Migration (When Black people moved from the South to the North)

Because of the great migration (Alvin Ailey, Janet Collins, Charlie Atkins)


Reconstruction also led to Hip Hop

Black American use dance and music to rebel (1965)

Bronx (From Jamaica DJ KOOL HER)


Elements of Hip Hop

  • DJING
  • Breaking
  • Graffitti
  • Poetry Theater
  • MCING/Rappin
  • Knowledge of self.....


Question 2

According to Geri Brown, the elements of Hip Hop all combined gave birth to the dance form in America. What do you know about Hip Hop that can add to Brown's statement?


V

A Note to Remember

American history is full of interesting events that have shaped its culture and its dance.


VI

Case Study

 Cakewalk Dance

The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on Black slave plantations before and after emancipation in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around".

 



Question 3

Why was the cakewalk dance historically important?



VI

Discussion Questions


VII

Activity

Ensemble Groups

Each group gets a different Hip Hop move and turns it into a count of 8 phrase...


VIII

Students' Work

 

Warm Up


 Hip Hop Moves by Group










 



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