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EXPLORELESSON PLANSArtsedge.org and PBS.org offer a wide range of arts-infused lesson plans and materials for educators to use.Below are a few that relate to this Youth Performance.The Innovative Voice(based on Martha Graham)http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3778/This lesson helps students build a frameof reference that will enable them to betterunderstand the innovative structuresand provocative themes of key MarthaGraham choreographies. It also illustratesspecific ways that Graham’s work wasa “new voice” that expressed dramatic20th century cultural change.Systems of the Body:Choreography and Movementhttp://artsedge.kenedy-center.org/content/2012/In this lesson, students will create movementpatterns that express informationabout the basic systems, organs, andprocesses of the human body. They willwork in pairs and in groups to makemovement choices that communicatescientific concepts in creative movement,and make inquiries, through researchand movement experimentation, into theways in which the body’s systems workand how those systems interact.Merce Cunningham:A lifetime of DANCEhttp://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/1257/previewAs Merce Cunningham describes it,he doesn’t choreograph dance piecesbased upon an idea or story, but beginssimply with an exploration of movementsobserved or experienced in life. In thislesson plan, students get a chance toobserve movement by creating a “movementjournal”, and then they experimentwith what they have observed to create aunique “movement vocabulary.”DANCING THROUGH POETRYhttp://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3534/In this lesson students will look at poetryas a way to express the art of dancemetaphorically. Students will read twodifferent poems about break dancing inwhich one will show dance visually in theway the words are placed on paper andthe other using its content to representdance.ELEMENTS OF DANCEhttp://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2338/How many ways can a person move?Students will explore and discover theelements of dance by demonstrating varioussimple movements. This exercise willhelp the teacher assess the students’ levelof experience and ability with respect todance. Students will create simple dancesin small groups and perform them for theclass. Students will manipulate task cardsto comprehend the elements of danceand then they will be tested on theirknowledge.42 UMS 09-10