Transcript: Exploring Symmetry Through Dance, Boosting Engagement, Rigor, and Connection Online, Part 2. A higher FA (greater lack of symmetry) would correspond to a greater degree of handedness. Obviously I'll have to look again more closely when there is more time to focus and rewind. Has the video been pulled down? Integrating any subject with dance is just another way for students to communicate their understanding. 3. The more symmetrical a person's body, the better they dance and the more attractive they are to the opposite sex, a new study finds. Teacher: Exactly, we’re doing our math dances and math dance today is all about symmetry. Let me recommend to anybody who hasn't read it Edwin Denby's rhapsody on Nijinsky's neck. A difficulty with this kind or research is statistical variation, which would blur distinctions if the study were not narrowly focussed. 2. . In math, as lesson plans advance it is important for students to have the freedom to create symmetry through new spatial understanding. Did they find ways to compensate for, or even mask, their disparities or did they (try to) make them a coherent part of their organic presentation? Demonstrates the concepts. If your legs are both exactly the same length, but you can raise one higher than the other, is that symmetrical or not? * In dance, the body is the mobile figure or shape, felt by the dancer, seen by others. But that's partly because ballet training emphasizes TRYING to develop equally, so you can do a combination to the left and to the right AND REVERSED. Where assymetries occur they tend to be differences of less than 1%. On the stage, the reflection line may divide the space horizontally, creating an upstage side and a downstage side, or vertically, creating a stage-left side and a stage-right side. Student: You have to move around the room and mirror the moves with your partner. Is it more crucial for classical ballet than for modern ballet or dance? In spite of this, and most improbably, she was still a pretty strong turner. People who're disproportionate above and below the waist have serious difficulties in life and would be bad bets for a life of physical work; it's a structure with LOTS of mechanical problems -- esp people with a big superstructure set on spindly legs, Danny de Vito style (actually I've never seen deVito's legs, and in fact, he moves well and has a kind of wonderful style of his own, and funny as he is, he'd probably rank rather high on the marriageable scale, given the value most people set by a sense of humor). Animals that move in one direction necessarily have upper and lower sides, head and tail ends, and therefore a left and a right. LEARNING GOALS 1. I wonder to what degree symmetry affects ambidexterity, so important to dancing. Add to the dance by asking each student to create a symmetrical shape. Teacher: Shereese Halley Caspersz, Integrating any subject with dance is just another. Even though (as evaluated by males) symmetrical females were significantly better dancers than asymmetrical females, female symmetry only accounted for 23% of the variance in dance ability. A lot of students have trouble with the spatial aspect of math so even those who are straight A students in math, when we get to geometry and flipping shapes and moving shapes and symmetrical shapes, they just don’t understand it, so bringing them in, having them actually get up and do would actually solidify that concept in their heads. He did very well exploring symmetrical shapes by ourselves. There are two types of warm-ups, an isolation which is a standard warm-up going from the head down to your hips and just moving the body, one body part at a time, similar movements as in phys ed class, but we do it slower with the dance music. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/...ature04344.html. Worksheet free activity! Teacher: I’ve got some dance pictures that we can take a look at because today we are going to be making our bodies into symmetrical shapes. Perhaps this is why we sometimes will see a star turn in the opposite direction from the choreography. Click Here to learn more. (??)". Embedded Assessment: Criteria-based room scan; criteria-based self-assessment 5. In the 1970s, Sannella and other callers introduced dance moves from English Country Dance, such as heys and gypsies, to the contra dances. I'd be very surprised if this didn't apply to the classical dances of Africa. Play “Simon Says” (Simón Dice) – a well-known game – to bring home the ideas of symmetry as well as reflection. Student: It was really fun choreographing and doing it all together. In addition, women rate dances by symmetrical men relatively more positively than do men, and more-symmetrical men value symmetry in women dancers more than do less-symmetrical men. Teacher: As long as your partner is doing the same thing you will be symmetrical. Student: Mostly we were on time so that’s why I think the best was the mirroring. If you look at the paper itself, you'll see quite a jumble of math, even under these carefully controlled conditions. This video is a major inspiration for engaging students. In fact, those features rated beautiful, most notably bodily symmetry, are good predictors of healthy, desirable attributes such as strong immune systems -- in other words, aesthetic sensibilities have evolutionary roots. The first finding, that the opposite sex finds people who lack subtle asymmetry to be better dancers, combines with social dancing being part of the way one choses a mate. Choreo Graph Activity 2: My Symmetrical Dance Move Symmetry, Angles of Rotation, and Translation Expected Activity Time Part… First half-box: Forward-side-together Second half-box: Backwards-side-together. So can you think back to math class, what is symmetry? What strategies does Ms. Caspersz use to help her students give each other meaningful feedback? Su Wilterink As we are watching we’re going to be thinking of the elements of dance so that when we give our feedback and when we think about what we did we are able to give specific feedback… A conspicuous example of asymmetry is Heather Watts, whose spine clearly does not run straight down the center of her back. Your task, your final task, is our group dance. a. Student: Pretty fun because you mix it around and you get really cool creative dance moves. How does using dance encourage a deeper understanding of math? Excellent. Are we symmetrical? 2. drb, I can't speak to the relevence to dance, but -- coincidentally -- this week's Economist contains a long "survey of human evolution" which refers to the issue of symmetry. Does the reported symmetry-likes-symmetry selection lead to offspring of dancer-dancer parents tending to become good dancers? Any suggestions? Lesson Objective: Use dance to demonstrate understanding of symmetry. In a word, these virtually imperceptible differences are associated with real genetic problems. Think of a pyramid, or mirror im- age. The body is sometimes relatively still and sometimes changing as the dancer moves in place or travels through the dance area. Teacher: The line of symmetry, excellent. Student: I like the opening and closing poses. So I'm going to put some green tape down on the floor so that we have a line of symmetry and as were traveling we have to come in together and go out together. So generalizations from the study will probably not be implausible. Boosting Engagement, Rigor, and Connection Online, Part 1, Supporting Your Teachers in Effective Online Instruction, Part 1, When Your Personal and Teaching Lives Collide. Would you include them as examples of positive anwers to question 2 at the beginning of this thread? Student: Like math we learned how to find the symmetry and doing a symmetrical pose was pretty fun because you had to figure it out just like math. Or the phrase is repeated in the reverse order. It moves according to the gravity of this motion more than anything else but it can also be adapted to deal with the gravity of other types of tonality such as cells or the traditional dominant-tonic harmonic system. Student: Well it was very creative and they had a lot of movement, that’s like wow. drb, the websitge is www.economist.com/print. Teacher: Today we have a very exciting lesson plan. We’re going to be creative and we’re going to move on to using partners. We’re going to take the math lesson that we did yesterday and we’re going to integrate it with a little bit of dance. Just like before we’re looking for things that they’re doing really, really well, and maybe something they can improve for next time. Student: They did locomotor moves on symmetry path a couple times rather than just once. ", Example: "... female swallows prefer their mates to have symmetrical tails. The choreography in 2 and 3 was not identical, which should -- I would think -- raise aquestions about the conclusions. Thanks, drb, for posting your discoveries. OK give yourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. While they give some explanation in terms of known differences between the sexes in terms of the way they select mates, I wonder if they may be missing the fact that women are more likely to have had formal dance training. Teacher: I want you to spread out around the room and come up with your own symmetrical pathway. Teacher: Well I think that our next part you’re going to like as well. "The "symmetrical" dancer appeared to me to have one arm longer than the other. I’ll come around and see how you’re doing. Repeat with asymmetrical. Teacher: Excellent! Student: Get it to where it’s like stretching, like maybe a little bit more closed or something, make like different actions. Your last paragraph is very perceptive. and the ability to change directions economically is a prerequisite for graceful movement, sine qua non. Student: I just like doing it with the partners because you’re not alone and if you just kind of mess up you’re still doing the same thing and they’re still with you. Powered by Invision Community. Student: Since they were a little smooth, they should get some ___ work. Teacher: I'm just going to put the music on and I want you to do what we just did but with your own creativity, so going from low, medium and high using the upper body, using the lower body…. Teacher: …so they kind of joined everything together and we didn’t even practice with the music. It is interesting that Paul mentioned the role played by handedness in dancing. The "symmetrical" dancer appeared to me to have one arm longer than the other. In summary, dance in Jamaica seems to show evidence of sexual selection and to reveal important information about the dancer.". I remember a lecture demo in which i wayan Dibia showed a Balinese dance that had something of the nature of a prayer and made a big point of saying that certain features of it were done both to the left and to the right, otherwise there would be a big flaw in it -- the dance ITSELF had to be symmetrical. Not all beauty is symmetric: consider the crack in a Zen bowl... For many right-handed people, the left side -- arms and legs both -- is the stabilizing side, which provides a platform against which the right side can do a lot of expressive gesturing (hammering, writing, ronde de jambe en l'air); such people usually turn best (en dehors) to the right and leap best off the left foot onto the right. The symmetry (or its lack) that they are studying is called fluctuating asymmetry, FA, which considers only "subtle asymmetry," excluding "conspicuous asymmetry": http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/palmer/asym/asymmetry.htm. It is used, e.g., in American Style ballroom dances: rumba, waltz, bronze-level foxtrot.The leader begins with the left foot and proceeds as follows. Symmetrical Movement Concept Introduction: Balance. Apr 13, 2017 4:26pm, Zaida Puyo While it is not specific to ballet dancing in particular, it does pose interesting questions on the importance of body symmetry to success in dancing. What is being measured, "Fluctuating Asymmetry", involves Subtle Asymmetry (typically variations well below 1%, probably hard to see) and specifically excludes Conspicuous Asymmetry--some nice examples above, cited by Carbro. Jun 30, 2012 - Chaari Dance, Rajasthan – Symmetrical Moves Showcasing a perfect union of patience, balance and flexibility, Chaari Dance is the famous folk dance form of Rajasthan. Choose two and have everyone copy these two shapes. which is full of technical statistical analysis. Teacher: We’re go to have half the class dance and half the class watch and then…. Symmetry was assessed with measurements of wrists, ankles, elbows, third digit, fourth digit, fifth digit, ears, feet, knees. The quote below is in the context of a comment that, while females of many species "value high status in a mate in a way that men do not," males are much more likely to go for the physically attractive. The way that the dance curriculum has gone to the creative process is fabulous. Amen re Suzanne, Hans! The students understand the basics and are asked openly to reflect on what they liked. This issue also has a leader (editorial) which makes the interesting point: "Of the three great secular faiths born in the 19th century -- Darwinism, Marxism, and Freudianism -- the second died swiftly and painfully and the third is slipping peacefully away. . For instance: Balinese or other Southeast Asian, with movements done to right and to left. To reflect an object in dance means to produce its mirror image in relationship to a reflecting line that divides the space into two parts. Student: No, no, no, no you guys walk back like in a motion – and then me and him, we go zigzag…. https://learn.teachingchannel.com/video/teaching-symmetry-with-dance This Site Uses Cookies. Student: Yes Ballet Alert! I decided to focus on levels, so creating a low-level symmetrical pose into a higher level shape and then going to a high level shape, so they could be outstretched or reaching straight up, Teacher: OK, so let’s stand up, and can we go to our lines …. Some of the key biological understanding is quite cross-cultural, and dancing's importance in mate-selection is likewise. Student: I like the partners because you get to see what it’s like to work with a partner and I like to do it yourself because you get to think of yourself what you can do and what you can’t do. They aren't of such magnitude as to be readily spotted, yet turn out to have notable association with quality of dancing. 8, 9 or 5-6 Create A Synchronized Dance Troupe Student: Something that divides an object? When it comes to feet, Virginia Johnson's were even more disparate than Farrell's. As students who normally take dance outside it’s almost like a sport, it’s just a follow the teacher, just do replicating the same movements but here in school they have the opportunity to be creative themselves so it allows the students to be naturally creative, but then find maybe that inner artist in them that they otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to discover. (Previously, the actives and inactives —see Progression below— had significantly different roles). They used video of people in the study, so my guess is that they would would find some asymmetry in your example of two legs of equal length but not equally raisible (sic). Teacher: Why don’t we all get up and dance together. "Here we report that there are strong positive associations between symmetry and dancing ability, and these associations were stronger in men than in women. The teacher, Ms. Caspersz lets the students warm-up on their own and then progresses to work with partner before the larger group begins. How crucial is body symmetry to performing classical ballet? So we get to dance our math lesson. I've managed to track down more detailed information on the study, including video comparing symmetric vs asymmetric dancers. Carbro also has an interesting remark re ambidexterity (I suppose we could say a lack of handedness) being a plus for dancers, earlier in this discussion. Student: When you do like math worksheets you usually do it for like a teacher for homework and when you dance it you’re just doing it for yourself. Shape is perhaps the strongest visual component in dance. Choreo Graph Activity 4: Angle Dance Moves with a Mood Exploring Angle Types Expected Activity Time Part… Grade(s): e.g. An anthropological study of dance and symmetry in Jamaica appears in the December 22-28, 2005 issue of the respected scientific journal Nature. Teacher: I always give you a homework reflection to do at home but today I'm going to make it easier, we’re going to do it in our groups. In humans, as explained in the above link, handedness would fall into the subtle asymmetry classification. The second shows dancing of a dancer with high body symmetry (click supplementary movie 2). Teacher: It’s time for us to show what we have, so have a seat. They will then plan and digitally animate symmetrical dance moves using angles of rotation. The third shows dancing of an assymmetric dancer (click supplementary movie 3). In this form, the dancer carries a series of brass pots on their heads and twirl on the rhythmic beats. Every step is with full weight transfer. May 6, 2020 3:21pm. When talking about the elements of dance it makes them aware that dance is a story, dance is a journey, and there’s a reason why you do every single move. Student: Her moves were really creative and nobody copied them and they were her own. Teaching Channel is a thriving online community where teachers can watch, share, and learn diverse techniques to help every student grow. Symmetries in dance and music also include symmetries in time: one dancer or instrument repeats a phrase a certain number of beats after another. So today we’re going to be taking those symmetrical shapes that we just practiced and we’re going to be using them low, medium and high and high, medium and low. This training may have helped some women become better dancers despite asymmetries, and that could be one reason why less of female dance skill was attributed to symmetry (23% vs 48% for men). Students will first explore the concepts of graphing ordered pairs and moving between coordinate points via translations. People who look fantastically at ease and beautifully balanced says they don't feel that way. This was fun to watch and gives greater meaning to a topic that can seem mundane to some. It looks and feels stable, balanced and resolved. They are looking for deviations from the tendancy of cells to seek bilateral symmetry, and how Natural Selection might lead to more symmetry in people. Aug. 19, 2008— -- In the nightclub, some people select whom they approach based on the person's body. Student: I like working with groups because you mostly use team work and then you start with a pose but you use your brains all together to work. Other symmetries in dance include those derived from the similarity between the human body's silhouette as seen from the front and the back. These traits are vital for adults to optimize their knowledge in any field. The box step is a dance figure named so because the steps rest in the four corners of a square. Remember Mr. B's very painful test of that foot? See more. Another may be that dancing, from the role it plays in mate selection, may contribute (and have already contributed) to long-term greater health and longer life expectancy for the human race. Haji Muhiddeen Rashid Primary School Maths Week Activities... Symmetry of the Dance.... 23.02.2015 Yes…. Student: They could use some more power when they’re doing sharp movements. Clearly, individuals who have a very strong dominance to one side will be somewhat asymmetrical due to differences in muscle development, but then we get to chicken-and-egg issues. 8, 9 or 5-6 Virtual Giraffe Challenge Good. Teacher: As you watch we’re going to be thinking of one thing that they’re doing really, really, well and maybe one thing that we can do to improve their symmetrical movements. Something they didn't mention is front-to-back balance -- we're only symmetrical bilaterally, but something like it is very important front-to-back and also above and below the waist -- an "upstanding" person (or as my friend becky puts it a "stand-up sort of person') is generally admired in most cultures, and that implies an ideal carriage of hte head above a straight back -- a body neither shortened along the front line (which is actually very common among American urban folk, from all the driving and and reading and sitting in front of computer terminals peering forward in our lives) nor swayed too far back. Student: They show a lot of locomotor and moving around a lot and working together really well. Enjoy your first three pieces of content for free. 2. So by showing their understanding through the movement of their body it’s actually easier than most think to determine if a child understands or not. In summary, dance in Jamaica seems to show evidence of sexual selection and to reveal important information about the dancer." Teacher: We’re going to add some local motor movements. Symmetrical definition, characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts. Later peer feedback allows students to give advice to the groups after they viewed their performance. The way that most educators work is it’s a pencil and paper task but dance is another way that they can communicate. Maybe we have an innate need for symmetry -- in any form. Create a rotational symmetrical dance move, in which the dancer (in Choreo Graph) rotates symmetrically around a point, instead of over a line. But Darwinism goes from strength to strength.". But this isn't my field, so I can't be sure. A Design Make Playground for Learning. She is surely the most wonderful dancer I have ever seen. I checked bugmenot.com, but access is restricted there, too. Dancing here refers to social dancing in Jamaica. Choreo Graph Activity 4: Angle Dance Moves with a Mood Exploring Angle Types Expected Activity Time Part… Grade(s): e.g. Bharata Natyam, for example, is rigorously symmetrical in the "pure dance" segments (though not in the dramatic sections). I’ve got some…. This yields a long-term hypothesis (hence the long-term follow-up part of the study) that these people will marry according to matching dance skills and produce a generation of more symmetrical offspring. 1. Offer some suggestions? 3. CSC (Curriculum Service Canada) • The dance phrase now looks like this: BESIDE (opening position), IN FRONT OF, OVER, BEHIND, UNDER, SYMMETRICAL SHAPE # 1, SYMMETRICAL SHAPE # 2, ASYMMETRICAL SHAPE # 1, ASYMMETRICAL SHAPE # 2. In spite of this, and most improbably, she was still a pretty strong turner. It simply isn’t a proper K-Pop choreography without a word-per-word interpretation of the lyrics into a dance move — like iKON‘s page-turning move to the words “last pages”. While mirroring, each dancer or group of dancers claims one side of the divided space. Are there dancers who lack body symmetry and have overcome this "disadvantage" to become successful in ballet? What scientists look for in this kind of study are trends, where the averages are going (where, perhaps, evolution is taking us as a species), and not causation. It's interesting to see the way technology expands the manner in which you can present what are -- in effect -- footnotes and what used to be called "figures" in the graphics section. Marc Soltis Apr 18, 2016 10:35am, Caroline Chumo Symmetric Position: A symmetric position is identical on the right and left sides of the body. symmetrical dance move using angles of rotation. It is interesting that such subtle lack of symmetry is associated with inferior dancing skill, moreso in men than in women. View a variety of dance scenes (ie: the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Broadway Musicals like Mary Poppins and the Lion King) and ask students to notice when the dancer(s) move at the same time and in mirrored motions and when they do not. Working to create symmetry -- and relying on the mirror, first, and increasingly one's interior sense of one's own body, to accomplish this -- is a great joy of beginning ballet classes, for me at least. Interesting, in light of another quote from the article in Nature: "One measure of quality in evolutionary studies is the degree of bodily symmetry (fluctuating asymmetry, FA), because it measures developmental stability.". Trying to put things together so far, it seems that both spiritual practice and natural selection are conspiring to make symmetric people. While we sometimes worry about the state of dance for the immediated future, perhaps for the long term, humanity is destined to be a race of dancers! The elements of dance: Part 1 Space Shape 1 Shape is an aspect of the element of space. Also, the "dance" elements were not something I was familiar with, consisting primarily of an in-place shuffle (kind of time step? As Martha Graham said, "the foot is either pointed or it is not," and if one foot points more than the other, that's life, although it probably made buying pointe shoes a bit of a pain. "The choreography in 2 and 3 was not identical, which should -- I would think -- raise aquestions about the conclusions.". You can do five moves, ready? Thanks to Paul and Bart for the dancer input. Aug 30, 2017 - Chaari Dance, Rajasthan – Symmetrical Moves Showcasing a perfect union of patience, balance and flexibility, Chaari Dance is the famous folk dance form of Rajasthan. A by-product of this would seem to be a generation of better dancers. Prompts: Locomotor movements move the body through space. They really have their own creativity here so students can do what they wanted to do and kind of get their energy out as they were warming their bodies up. My hunch is that the ability to change directions economically increases markedly the more symmetrically your body is made and operates.... from my own experience (and i'm very lop-sided at the moment), that is the case. Teacher: Do you think we could make it better? Dance movements producing a reflection are called mirroring movements. Do you happen to have a web link to the Economist's article? Thank you so much for sharing this video about symmetry, It's very engaging and meaningful . Perhaps for this forum, the most relevant idea coming from the work is that there may be a long-term human trend toward making people who will be able to dance better. 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