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
- Create a dance phrase with a specific source of inspiration (music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news, or social events).
- Consider the different ways that a jump is used and performed in different genres of dance (i.e., ballet and jazz dance).
- Create movements to express words or concepts supplied by the teacher (for example, generate a movement in response to the word "wave" or "jump"); then, compare one's own movement to movements made by other students to express the same word.
- Participate in a collaborative dance-building exercise in which the students. The group should first decide on a theme, then stand in a circle, and take turns offering a different movement.
- Choreograph a dance with specific reference to one's own culture, hobby, or interest.
- Create dances using the choreographic devices of transposition, opposition, and accumulation.
- Create variations on a dance that one learned and explain the choices that one made when selecting the changes.
- Create a movement study then document the process by using video, Laban, journals, or list.
- Observe a dance sequence (created by the teacher) in which something is not quite right; respond by critiquing the sequence and making suggestions for improvements.
- Use Labanotation to record one's own choreographed dance.
- Document a movement phrase using basic labanotation symbols, motif writing, Classical Ballet vocabulary or Video Collaboratory.
Vocabulary
- prompts
- movement vocabulary
- artistic expression
- choreography
- dance terminology
- choreographic devices
- dance study
- structure
- artistic criteria
- artistic intent
- feedback and revision
- notation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
