Signalling of the basic steps in the north American tap dance
Team:
Ana Helena T. M. da Fonseca - lelenatmf@yahoo.com.br Daniel Gutnik
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Group :
Flávio Salles
Academia do Tap
Rua Visconde de Pirajá, 235 sala 101 Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro CEP: 22411-001 Tel: 22874090
We worked at the Academia do Tap in set with the tap dance professor Flávio Salles. In this space is unction's an academy of dance specialized in North American tap dance. Our intercessor, besides giving lessons of tap dance for groups of different levels, runs the academy. We followed the lessons of tap dance given by our intercessor for the groups of basic and intermediary levels.
From the set of words that compose the vocabulary universe of Flávio we recognized as objective for the project: "To place the dance in the feet it creates rhythm with palms".
On the basis of the experiments carried through and organized for the intercessor we identify its intention to create a graphical representation of the tap dance steps once that it had didactic function in the classes.
As final object we made a card index of cards of the graphical representations of the basic tap dance steps and of the written definitions of the same ones as well. The cards had been all printed matters in paper 180gr, being the definitions printed in colored papers, and plasticized individually.
The object is being used for dynamic proposals where the pupils execute the steps and clarify its doubts about the concepts of each one of them.
Ana Helena concluded that the biggest learning acquired with the experience of the project was the discovery of our creative and constructive capacity, learning to use to advantage everything that we had inside the limits of our realities.
For Daniel, the project was an only experience, a new and curious form to learn to develop something from a small initial idea.
Subject: ART 1031
Class: 1AB
Professor: Ana Brancoe Carlos André Côrtes
e-mail: ana.branco@rdc.puc-rio.br