Edgar Degas: Creating Ballet Lines
PowerPoint Presentation
LSTE 7310
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DescriptionThis lesson is designed as a teacher-presented class PowerPoint presentation for students from upper elementary through high school. It touches on several subjects such as visual art, dance, art history, and culture. The lesson incorporates both whole class and partner work. It is intended to introduce students to the French artist Edgar Degas and his artwork, use of lines, and connection to ballet. Assessments used are summary questions and drawings the students create.
The presentation begins by providing brief biographical information on Degas, and then gives basic definitions and examples of Realism and Impressionism. It moves on to reveal Degas’s inspiration from the Paris Opera Ballet, and offers a virtual tour of the Opera House and video previewing current performances. Then, examples of Degas’s paintings, sculptures, and drawings of ballet dancers are shown, followed by images demonstrating the body’s lines in the classical ballet positions. There is an interactive video that compares Degas’s sketches of dancers to live ballet movement, and teaches students how to perform some basic ballet movements while focusing on the shapes and lines they create. After students check their knowledge by answering summary questions over the presentation content, they are instructed to begin an activity in which partners alternate between being the model and the artist, still with a focus on shapes and lines. ObjectivesLearners will be able to...
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