Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
Skills Examples
- Read the artistic statement from a professional dance work before viewing. After viewing, discuss as a class what recurring movements were performed and how it contributed to the artistic intent.
- Observe and reflect on the Rippling back and forth actions in the body parts and spatial design in Alvin Ailey's Wade in the Water.
- Identify the elements of dance in a specific dance style or culture movement practice.
- Document in writing a phrase of choreography and underline the elements of dance.
- Discuss how the elements of dance help to communicate intent.
- Create a short movement phrase that tells a story using the elements of dance.
- Identify characteristics in ballet, tap and jazz dance styles and discuss how the qualities contribute to the artistic intent.
Vocabulary
- artistic intent
- genre-specific terminology
- cultural movement practices
- artistic expression
- elements of dance
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
