Discovery of the living world / Plastic arts / EPS : dance

 

Evolve in its representation of the human body

Experiment with a new technique to represent the body in various situations

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Session 1 :

Guided workshop (6 students) - playroom, garden or courtyard

 

→ Observation of works

• Paul Raphaël Meltsner « Martha Graham dances class »

American 1905/1966

 

• Kalidou Kassé «  Fouladou dancers »

Senegalese 1957

fouladou = region of southern Senegal – West Africa

 

• Auguste Rodin « Dancer »

1840/1917 French – Paris - sculptor

 

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→ After observation bring out the theme common to these 3 paintings (= the dance)

 

 

→ Body experience

 

Choose a dancer and describe him, including his position.

Name the parts of the body, the joints that allow you to take different positions

 

Take or try to take the position of the dancer

 

Take a dancer's position

(the teacher takes photos for later use)

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Movement

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Session 2 :

Modeling workshop

 

With modeling clay (balls and coils)

In class, workshop led by 6 students

 

Realize a number of characters and then show that the limbs can be twisted to make his character do something.

Suggest that the students find several different positions (by looking at the photos taken during the previous session, by looking at the works, at random, by looking at a friend, etc.)

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The man at Kalidou Kassé

 

Session 3 :

Drawing workshop

 

→ Use of photos

Allow time for discovery

Everyone verbalizes the pose they have taken using the correct vocabulary

 

→ Learn to draw men like Kalidou Kassé

The photos were printed in black and white using the photocopier and then placed in transparent plastic sleeves.

Using a black “ velleda ” black marker, the students blacken the head, hands and feet then connect them with a line that follows the movement from the body.

Take the photo out of the plastic and observe the realization thus obtained

 

→ Practice drawing

offer ½ white and colored A4 sheets and black markers (different thicknesses)

Practice drawing wireframe figures in different positions

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The wire man

 

Session 4 :

Painting workshop

 

• Fill sheet space

• Use tools, medium

• Reinvest a technique, a process

 

step 1 : make a background

gouaches (primary colors + white) – palette – large brush – canson paper

 

for each child, on the palette put only 2 primary colors and a little white in order to cause gradients

 

step 2 : the wire men

black gouache – more or less large brushes

 

reinvest the work done in the directed workshop.

On the bottom, make wire stick figures by giving them each a different position