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 understanding of visual art design principles (form/ design, theme, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, variety) to set spatial arrangements and formations.
- Create choreography and evaluate the experiences and cultural connections that shaped choreographic choices.
- Research the evolution within a specific genre of dance (i.e., the work of choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Mark Morris or choreographers Bill Robinson, Gregory Hines, and Savion Glover).
- Interpret a choreographer's personal aesthetic criteria by observing several works by the choreographer.
- Demonstrate strength, flexibility, and balance in the bends, extensions, turns, and jumps that are appropriate to the genre of dance being studied.
- Create dances using choreographic devices, such as transposition, opposition, and accumulation.
- Create dances using identifiable choreographic forms, such as ABA, canon, and theme and variation.
- Create a written statement describing one's inspiration, intended audience, emphasis, and choices when creating a dance.
- Create or use an appropriate rubric for self-evaluation and reflection.
- Use video (or other technology) or create graphs and floor plans to inform the process when developing choreography and to understand staging.
- Create or use an app to generate dance formations for staging.
- Justify the use of a fast tempo to convey chaos or adagio movement with allegro musical accompaniment.
- Use a recording device to video a performance at least three times from three different stage perspectives in order to evaluate the accuracy and quality of that performance.
- Incorporate Labanotation symbols to document the use of breath in choreography in order to evaluate the use of breath.
Vocabulary
- prompts
- choreography
- styles
- genres
- choreographic devices
- artistic statement
- choreography
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
