Planet B-boy - dance and film analysis

DANCE
ANALYSIS – DANCE RESPONSE WORKSHEET:
Please complete
your answers to the following six (6) questions in your
journal.
Observe a dance (Planet Bboy, video) and answer the
following questions:
(Use this sheet to take notes only.)

1. 
Name the dance genre and why you see it as a form of dance.

2.  In a
paragraph, describe the dance (talk about elements). You may use the
chart below to make point form notes:

Design
Elements: Music
___________________________________________________
________________________________________________________

Lighting
& Set Design needed: ________________________________

________________________________________________________

Costumes
________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Choreographic
Elements

Space
patterns

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Technical
Body Movements

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Form
& Sequence (overall structure)

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Roles
of the dancers.

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Story
telling:
______________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Power
moves:______________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Creativity:_________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

3.  In
another paragraph, explain what this genre of dance says about the
b-boys (and girls) who dance it. What characteristics and qualities,
as people, did the movie show these dancers need to have?

Give examples from
the movie:

4. Explain
your understanding of the origins of this kind of dance
(breakdancing).

Use
examples from the movie and your own research.
5.  What
meaning and feelings do you get out of a particular dance or dance
crew that you watched in the film Planet B-Boy (pick one you
watched)?

Dance
groups are from: Las Vegas, U.S.A.
……………………………………Osaka,
Japan
Paris,
France
………………………………….Seoul,
South Korea

B-boy: beat boy,
girls and boys who perform an urban dance, commonly know as
breakdancing.
For more information on the movie go to:
http://planetbboy.com/

6. The genre of this film is
DOCUMENTARY.

a) How effective was Korean-American
director Benson Lee, telling of the story of Planet B-Boy?

b) Is the title Planet B-Boy a good
title for the film? Why or why not?