Modern Dance Basic Training Lesson Plan

Teacher: Feng Li

1. Class: 2003 Music Education

2. Number of teaching hours: 2 hours per week (36 hours of basic modern dance training)

3. Teaching purposes: 1. To expose students to another training method different from traditional dance

2. Improve students’ muscle ability through basic modern dance training, make the body more coordinated and enhance abilities

3. Increase the accumulation of dance materials

4. Use the anti-traditional nature of modern dance characteristics and the pursuit of individual aesthetic standards to develop thinking, stimulate creativity, and lay the foundation for future dance choreography learning

IV. Teaching content: Basic training in modern dance

1. Breathing Exercise

2. Ground combination (1)

3. Ground combination (2)

4. Floor mopping combination

5. Squat combination

6. Steps

7. Jump

8. Comprehensive combination

9. Falling and rising exercises< /p>

5. Teaching focus: 1. Ground combination

2. Squatting combination

3. Steps

4. Falling and rising

6. Teaching difficulties: The difficulty is to solve students' breath problems and learn to relax and be in a natural state

7. Teaching methods: demonstration, explanation, group practice, performative practice, utilization Language, movement, etc. increase students' interest and allow them to learn independently

8. Teaching aids and equipment: audio, TV, card seats, DVD, and use piano accompaniment according to classroom requirements

9. Teaching Specific time schedule

Weeks 1 and 2

(1) Explain the development history of modern dance so that students can understand the basic ideas and aesthetic views of modern dance. The original modern dance advocated a formalism that was against the conservatism of ballet and purely pursued movement skills that were divorced from personal emotions. The aesthetic point of view was to break away from the rigid and stylized movements of ballet and express the true emotions of the characters with natural movements.

(2) There are many schools of modern dance. Martha Graham’s contraction-relaxation training system uses “Contraction & Release” as its action principle and focuses on skill training. Contract the lower abdominal muscles to gather power, and then release this power to extend the movement farther, higher, and longer. Floor training includes sitting, kneeling and lying positions; standing movements focus on shifting the center of gravity, balance and extension; mobile combinations focus on walking, running, jumping, turning and three-beat changes as the main training demands. Dolis. Doris Humphrey uses "Fall & Recovery" as its movement principle. The skill training is mainly based on the power generated during swing and weight shift, forming "Start-Stay-Fall" -The arc action cycle of "Restart". Humphrey's movement training model can also be extended to the recurring phenomenon of all things in the universe. It is an important example of incorporating the philosophy of life into dance skill training. Let’s start with breathing, focusing on natural and smooth breathing. Complete a series of actions while relaxing.

(3) Learning the ground combination, feeling the contraction and extension of the abdominal muscles during the bending and straightening of the spine.

Week 3 - Week 9

(1) Ground Combination (2)

(2) Floor Mopping Combination

(3) Squat combination

(4) Step combination

(5) Single exercise of small jump

Tenth week festival period test

The 12th and 13th weeks

Intensify review and integrate several small jumps

The 14th and 16th weeks

Learn a comprehensive performance combination, strengthen and improve, and master the basic style of modern dance

Seventeenth Week Final Exam