Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dancers use the mind-body connection and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
Skills Examples
- Establish diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space.
- Convert inward focus to outward focus in an effort to project from the stage.
- Demonstrate accented vs sustained movement by changing the music and performing a phrase with different quality.
- Practice soutenu turns across the floor once with focus on an accented initiation, then with focus on a drawn out sustained ending point.
- Practice changing the accented movement by repeating the same 8 count phrase with the accent moving from count 1, then count 2, and so on.
- Use the practice of alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement in dance phrases.
- Discuss injury prevention and safety. Determine additional stretches or conditioning for meeting personal goals.
- Design a group shape phrase: each member presents (teaches) 3 shapes using high, middle, low level. After presenting the group decides on an order. Next, use transitions to link shapes or series of shapes and incorporate at least 3 different pathways. Work out different ideas until reaching a successful solution.
- Discuss and identify performance etiquette guidelines.
- Use a variety of self-assessment methods for maintaining performance goals including journaling strengths and weaknesses, video assessment, journaling note, and feedback.
- Discuss and identify production elements successfully used in several pieces crossing different genres of dance.
- List, compare, and contrast qualities of production elements. Determine which would be more successful to intensify the artistic intent of a given or created piece of work. Present to the class and explain why certain elements were chosen.
Vocabulary
- Spatial Design
- Spatial Awareness
- Dynamics
- Dance phrase
- sustained and percussive
- Energy: bound and free-flowing
- Embody
- technical dance skills
- anatomical knowledge
- injury prevention and safety
- problem solving
- Performance etiquette
- Production terminology
- Production elements
- Artistic intent
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
