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
- Use Music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/ recall, current news, or social events to create movement.
- Examine how the choreographic process parallels the writing process and how the characteristics of writing relate to the characteristics of dance.
- Apply dance-related vocabulary/ terminology to compare and discuss the choices made by different choreographers as they sought to express the same theme.
- Choose an emotion (such as happiness) and apply the elements of dance to perform movements that communicate the emotion to an audience.
- Apply the elements of dance to perform movements that communicate the idea that they have just received a gift.
- Draw at random pieces of paper on which devices have been written—draw one from a bowl of ideas, and one from a bowl of emotions (the bowls and papers having been prepared in advance by the teacher); then, perform movements in sequence to convey what is written on one's pieces of paper.
- Explore the effect of variations in tempo by performing a dance three times; then, identify any parts that could be improved. Use this evaluation to differentiate between what needs more practice and what needs to be changed.
- Discuss free-and-controlled-flow and sustained-and-percussive-energy when identifying and critiquing qualities of energy in a dance.
- Examine Labanotation or Benesh movement notation.
- Research Labanotation or Classical Ballet terminology.
Vocabulary
- choreography
- prompts
- codified movement
- choreography
- dance terminology
- artistic intent
- dance study
- choreographic devices
- artistic criteria
- dance study
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
