Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
Skills Examples
- Utilize the similarities between the writing process and the choreographic process to create a dance.
- Attend a presentation (in the community or at a school assembly) that includes dance, and then explain the role of dance in the production.
- Perform a dance influenced by the Selma Civil Rights March to communicate one's understanding of Alabama state history.
- Demonstrate how dance impacts choices made in the community.
- Compare and contrast an American contra dance and a Middle Eastern circle dance.
- Explain the origins and development of ballet in Europe.
- Explain the use of strong and delicate energy in work-related activities, such as carpentry or the culinary arts.
Vocabulary
- Connect ideas in dance to personal experiences.
- Elements of Dance
- Improvisation
- Choreography
- Communicate for a specific purpose.
- Elements of dance
- Cultural Movement Practices
- Dance Literacy
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
