Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Dance Your Feelings

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

3, 4, 5

Overview

Students will watch Erika Malone demonstrate how to choreograph a dance based on their emotions.  They will perform the dance with Erika while watching a video.  After watching the video, the students can choreograph their own dance based on their emotions. 

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Dance

    AE17.D.3.4

    Create a dance phrase that communicates an idea or feeling and discuss the effect of the movement choices.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.D.3.4

    Vocabulary

    • prompts
    • use elements of dance
    • movement problem
    • choreographic devices
    • structure
    • dance phrase
    • concept and inspirations for choreography
    • feedback and revision
    • dance study
    • notation
    • dance phrase

    Essential Questions

    EU: The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic devices serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.
    EQ: What influences choice-making in creating choreography?

    Skills Examples

    • Use a variety of prompts for inspiration (i.e., music/ sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance experiences).
    • Find a way to travel across the floor only using a low level.
    • Select a choreographic device and create a dance phrase (i.e., retrograde, scramble/ deconstruct, transposition, inversion, or fragment).
    • Create a short movement phrase and perform with "sad" emotion then "happy" emotion. Discuss how the movement changed.
    • Discuss and use peer feedback or instructor feedback.
    • Create a floor map, using different colors for different levels of movement.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Dance

    AE17.D.3.17

    Identify specific context cues from movement that relate to the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.D.3.17

    Vocabulary

    • Identify patterns of movement to improve dance phrase.
    • Compare and contrast a variety of dance genres or styles.
    • Utilize dance terminology.
    • Identify movement relating to main idea.
    • Identify qualities of movement in genre: specific, style, or cultural dance.

    Essential Questions

    EU: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
    EQ: How is dance interpreted?

    Skills Examples

    • Explore and perform a variety of canons that include patterns of movement.
    • Identify recurring movements in Swan Lake.
    • Compare and contrast ballet and tap dance styles, focusing on the quality of movement in each style.
    • Compare and contrast modern dance and ballet, focusing on contract with the floor.
    • Create a dance phrase that tells a popular nursery rhyme and identify the movements using simple dance terminology.
    • Interpret a dance as sad because all of the movements are heavy and sustained.
    • View a live or recorded cultural dance and list the different qualities of movement [i.e., slash, punch, float, sink (Labon efforts)].
    • Discuss how ballet uses bound movements of the torso with free movements performed by the arms and legs.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Dance

    AE17.D.4.1

    Identify ideas for choreography generated from a variety of prompts and source materials.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.D.4.1

    Vocabulary

    • choreography
    • prompts
    • movement problem
    • elements of dance
    • choreographic devices
    • dance study
    • artistic intent
    • dance phrase

    Essential Questions

    EU: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
    EQ: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?

    Skills Examples

    • Use music, sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, or experiences to create a dance phrase.
    • Perform a dance phrase using three different levels.
    • Perform a dance phrase that alters the timing of the movement.
    • Create a trio from a solo by performing movements in a three-part canon.
    • Create a dance based on the maid idea of "water" or "fire" and explain how the movement choices that were made express your topic.
    • After performing short dance study, reflect on possible changes that could have been made and use peer feedback to revise movement.
    • Draw a formation or pathway of dancers using symbols.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Dance

    AE17.D.5.1

    Develop content for choreography using ideas generated from a variety of prompts.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.D.5.1

    Vocabulary

    • choreography
    • prompts
    • movement problems
    • choreography
    • elements of dance
    • choreographic devices
    • structure
    • codified movement
    • style
    • dance study
    • concept and inspiration for choreography
    • dance study
    • feedback and revise
    • notate

    Essential Questions

    EU: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
    EQ: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?

    Skills Examples

    • Create movement from spoken word, text, poetry, images, or nature.
    • Create a dance with a beginning, middle, and end that includes zigzag pathways and changes in energy.
    • Manipulate movement by utilizing choreographic devices such as retrograde, mirroring, or transposition.
    • Utilize ballet movement to create a story.
    • At the end of a dance study, reflect in a journal what changes were made during the process, why were they made, and what was the end result.
    • Record changes in choreography in a dance journal.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    The Kennedy Center
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

    Audio resources: includes a transcript or subtitles
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