Classroom Resource

Creating Like a Well-Known Choreographer

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Students will choose two works from a variety of masterworks from across historic periods and disciplines to perform.  They will choreograph a piece incorporating elements from both masterworks.  They will identify choreographic components in both the masterworks and their original composition.  

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Dance

AE17.D.PRO.17

Compare and discuss how the elements of dance, execution of dance movement principles, and context contribute to artistic expression.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.D.PRO.17

Vocabulary

  • compare patterns
  • elements of dance
  • artistic expression
  • critique artistic expression
  • Evaluative Criteria

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

  • View a professional dance work, identify multiple patterns of movements and discuss their relationship in the context of the artistic intent.
  • Revise an existing dance phrase adding the elements of dance to enhance the phrase.
  • Working in small groups, evaluate peer choreography using the elements of dance, technique and or artistic expression as criteria. Apply constructive feedback.
  • Analyze and interpret recognized works by a variety of historical and contemporary choreographers.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Dance

AE17.D.PRO.18

Compare and contrast two or more dances using evaluative criteria to critique artistic expression.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.D.PRO.18

Vocabulary

  • compare patterns
  • elements of dance
  • artistic expression
  • critique artistic expression
  • Evaluative Criteria

Essential Questions

EU: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?

Skills Examples

  • View a professional dance work, identify multiple patterns of movements and discuss their relationship in the context of the artistic intent.
  • Revise an existing dance phrase adding the elements of dance to enhance the phrase.
  • Working in small groups, evaluate peer choreography using the elements of dance, technique and or artistic expression as criteria. Apply constructive feedback.
  • Analyze and interpret recognized works by a variety of historical and contemporary choreographers.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Dance

AE17.D.PRO.19

Explain how the perspectives expressed by a choreographer may impact one’s own interpretation.

Unpacked Content

UP:AE17.D.PRO.19

Vocabulary

  • Self-reflection
  • Choreography
  • Artistic Intent
  • Movement Problem
  • Context Cues
  • Dancy Study
  • Elements of dance
  • Cultural Movement Practices
  • Dance Literacy

Essential Questions

EU: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and context are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
EQ: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?

Skills Examples

  • Distinguish and critique the use of the elements, foundations, skills, and techniques of dance to support the purposes of dances that one observes or performs.
  • Identify an instance of plagiarism or copyright infringement and assess its causes and effects.
  • Determine how dance impacts economic, political, and environmental choices in a community and/or society.
  • Understand that the attributes of dance are relevant to and used in other content areas and demonstrate this understanding by
    • Producing a presentation of dance that integrates other content areas.
    • Examining and critiquing a presentation of dance that integrates other content areas.
  • Research the historical/social context that brought African and Irish dance styles together to create tap dance in the nineteenth century.
  • Analyze and demonstrate how styles of dance (such as ballet, tap, and hip-hop) reflect the cultures in which they were formed.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
Link to Resource
https://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/danhs-creatinglikeawellknow…

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Colorado Department of Education
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