Unpacked Content
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?
EQ: What influences choice-making in creating choreography?
Skills Examples
- Create movement based on music/ sound, artwork or tactile prompts.
- Demonstrate a leap in a different direction, a turn on a different level or a run in different timing.
- Observe a dance and discuss how it began (low level in stillness), what happened in the middle (became fast) and how it ended (dancer exit).
- Discover how movements and elements can change the emotion of a dance, such as slow and curved movements can express sadness.
- Perform a dance in different ways, changing the elements of the movement.
- Create a personal key of symbols for movements (i.e., Jump ↑, turn ⟲, bend ↶).
Vocabulary
- Prompts
- elements of dance
- choreography
- structure
- content and inspiration for movement
- improvisation
- dance phrase
- feedback and revision
- notation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
