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.

COS Examples

Example: Interpret a dance as sad because all of the movements are heavy and sustained.

Unpacked Content

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.

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.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
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