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Advisory Meeting #2

"How can a hip-hop dancer best prepare a routine for an audition?"

Answer 2:
Taking hip-hop classes helps you find ideas on how you are going to make your routine.

-Example 1: As you you follow the teacher's moves in class, you'll learn more moves and become more familiar with them.

-Example 2: Hip-hop teachers may throw out some random steps and moves that help you think of better moves in place of the teacher's random move.

-Example 3: You can think of better teaching methods to get your moves taught to the dancers more efficiently.

Research Source(s):
-My Interview with Heather
-Articles One

Concluding Sentence:

  You can learn new dance moves you've never seen before to add to your dance routine. Not only that, you can also decide how you will get your message across your dancers.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  I will be going around doing a survey with random people on what they would like to see in hip-hop dance and if they are more interested in the beat of a song, lyrics, or musicality, however this will not count for any hours. Starting my 30 hours, I will be applying the people's response by filming myself dancing a bit according to the responses. I will also work more on my dance routine that I've been working on with the junior back in IC 1 by editing some moves according to the people's responses and/or how I think after recording ourselves   

2. I would be showing pictures and short clips to prove evidence of my 30 hours.

3. This helps me explore my topic more in depth because I'm actually asking what the audience likes to see in a choreo and taking them into consideration when polishing up the dance routine

4. Done

Independent Component 1

• Literal

a. I, Mark Patena, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b. -Interview with Heather Gonzalez
    -"Making Choreography." Hip Hop Moves. N.p., 2010. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. <http://www.hiphopmoves.org/choreography/making.html>.

c. My Independent Component Hours

d. I've completed making a dance choreo to the song "Good Time" with a partner to perform on the talent show

• Interpretive

Making a decent choreography is not as easy as it sounds. It takes much time to plan and experiment with moves. Spending three minutes planning and experimenting gives you around 10-15 seconds of the choreography.

• Applied

The component helped me understand my foundation of topic by actually forming a dance choreo and asking for feedback from various people. The feedback then helped me answer my EQ

Lesson 2 Reflection

1. Positive Statement

I am most proud that I engaged the students with my topic because a lot of students tend to get bored easily and thus they won't be attentive during the presentation. I'm also proud that I got to explain everything of my powerpoint because, the last time, I went too overtime.

2.Questions to Consider
a. I would give myself an AP
b. The reason why is because I feel like I didn't make enough content time for my powerpoint and I also forgot to set some things up and the activity didn't really get many students to participate.

3. What worked for me in lesson 2 was how I explained my content, my tone of voice, and the specific examples I mentioned.

4. What didn't work was YouTube and the activity. If I had a time machine, I would've asked if I could use the MPR, bring backup files for the song, and taught a routine to the students instead of making their own.

5.So far, answer 2 for me would be "Being experienced with a broad range of hip-hop dance styles."