Week 5 Assignment: Art Creation – Music/Dance/Poetry

Instructions
This week you will use your readings from the past week as a point of departure to create your own artistic production and a reflection paper.

Part 1: Art Creation
Select a poem, musical piece, or dance piece to use as a point of inspiration. Create a work of poetry, lyrics, music, or dance, inspired by your selected art piece. Video or audio recordings should be no longer than 5 minutes and must be in MP4 format.

Note: If your art creation requires a separate file submission, please submit in the Art Creation Submission (Recordings) area following this assignment.

Part 2: Reflection
Write a reflection about the relationship between your art production and the inspiration piece. Include the following in the reflection paper:

• Introduction
• Inspiration Piece
  • Include the inspiration poem, lyrics, or recording of musical or dance piece within the document. Use a link in the case of a recording.
  • Record the title, artist/author/composer, year, and place of origin.
  • Briefly explain the background of the inspiration piece.
• Your Art Piece
  • Include your original poem or lyrics within the document. If you selected a musical or dance piece, submit as a separate file in theArt Creation Submission (Recordings) area following this assignment.
  • Provide a title.
  • Explain the background of your piece.
• Connection
  • Explain the thematic connection between the two pieces.
  • How are they similar and different?
  • Are they the same medium? How does the medium impact what the viewer experiences?

Original Artwork Requirements

• Methods: typed poem or lyrics, or recording of musical or dance piece
• No computer-generated pieces

Week 5 Assignment: Art Creation – Music/Dance/Poetry Answer 

Swan Lake is a classic story of love, magic, and tragedy. Accoding to Wunder (n.d.), “ the origins of the Swan Lake story are unclear”, but its plot appears to be based on a Grman tale by Johann Karl Augustus Musaus called the Stolen Veil. Swan Lake first premied on Friday, March 4^th 1877, but contrary to popular belief, Tsaikovsky’s score was heavily criticized at the time (Wunder, n.d.). When you first think of Swan Lake, you immediately think of musical symphonies, doomed love, and magical swans.