Uruguay Primaria 6to Grado - Danza

This course focuses on developing students' artistic competencies through dance, fostering cultural awareness, and promoting cultural practices. Dance is presented as a powerful means of understanding the world, others, and oneself, as well as a way to construct knowledge, communicate, express, and liberate.

Competencies

The Danza curriculum aims to develop the following specific competencies:

• Sensoperceptive Competency (CE1): Students connect with their environment through perceptive skills, recognizing and discriminating aspects of body, space, time, movement, objects, and people. This involves creative expression, participation, and interpreting and representing images through bodily movement. Key themes include sensory perception, the interplay between internal and external worlds, and bodily thinking.
• Interpretative Competency (CE2): Students interpret melodies, songs, feelings, and emotions through movement, participating in and enjoying dance, games, and traditional rounds. They create choreographies, playing with and modifying space, focusing on circular dances to coordinate movements and interact with others. Key themes are expression and communication.
• Productive-Creative Competency (CE3): Students analyze, investigate, and create movements to experience and explore different spaces, with or without objects. They recognize, record, and create to convey feelings and emotions through creative play. Key themes include divergent thinking, mastery of formal elements, and aesthetic judgment.
• Cultural Competency (CE4): Students recognize and value diverse dance forms as intangible cultural heritage, reinterpreting cultural aspects. They appreciate, understand, and value artistic and cultural expressions within cultural heritage, contributing to their preservation. They recognize and employ a repertoire of universal techniques and dances to broaden their expressive range. Key themes include interest, autonomy, participation, and cultural citizenship.
• Collective Bodily Practice Competency (CE5): Students implement interpersonal communication strategies with peers to promote poetic bodily action. They incorporate habits of listening and anatomical body care within a trusting environment, fostering collective agreements that enable creation and expression. They establish collective agreements for hygiene, order, and coexistence in shared spaces. Key themes include communication, creativity, and collective cultural construction.

Content

The curriculum covers the following content areas:

• Dances Through Time: Exploring dance from the Stone Age through the 20th century, including the evolution of spectacular dance in different cultures and historical periods.
• Expression and Communication Through Movement: Examining various dance forms, including classical, modern (Cunningham, Expressionist), contemporary (BMC, contact improvisation, Gaga), folkloric (Pericon Nacional, Contradanza, Minue Montonero, Tirana, Polka Militar, Tango), and world dances (hip-hop, pop, jazz, flamenco).
• Research Laboratory: Investigating the body as a place, map and territory, and improvisation.
• Terminology and Codification of Movement: Learning the specific language and terminology used in dance.
• Choreography Creation: Developing skills in movement quality, perception, time, space, displacement, and interaction.
• Staging: Exploring elements of dramaturgy, interpretation, scenography, lighting, sound, costumes, and characterization.

Methodology

The curriculum emphasizes active learning methodologies, including:

• Inverted Classroom
• Project-Based Learning (PBL)
• Problem-Based Learning
• Challenge-Based Learning
• Gamification
• Competency-Based Learning
• Workshop format

Evaluation

Evaluation is formative and ongoing, focusing on the development of the specific competencies outlined above. It considers not only performance and content acquisition but also critical reflection, allowing teachers and students to discuss results and analyze the teaching and learning processes.