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
- Demonstrate spatial awareness by maintaining spatial design of a circle with equal space between dancers while performing a locomotor turn sequence with leaps and/or floor rolls.
- Maintain the quality and metric phrasing of a waltz while performing to music that is written and performed as a march.
- Shift the accents within a seven-count phrase to establish the appearance of a polyrhythmic structure that mixes meter within that phrase (i.e. 3/4 + 4/4; 2/4 + 2/4 + 3/4; and 5/4 + 2/4).
- Demonstrate awareness of artistic intent and success in clearly modifying energy and dynamics (in a set phrase or composed work) to change the theme, idea or feeling.
- Explore energy and dynamics by using improv with teacher calling out different words or phrases that dancers respond to.
- Research a chronic injury and implement a conditioning program to alleviate the condition.
- Demonstrate effective communication of dance vocabulary and leadership skills by teaching peers a dance of their own work. Plan choreography and artistic intent. Plan and run productive rehearsals using a variety of engaging strategies for dancers. Demonstrate ability to revise and adjust performance components utilizing a range of feedback/ assessment tools including instructor and peer feedback as well as multimedia self-assessment for dancers.
- Collect personal references.
- Create curriculum vitae or resume.
- Gather personal portrait (headshot), dance photos, and video files of choreography.
- Modify piece of work with lighting for stage space to adapt and keep artistic intent for performance outside.
Vocabulary
- Choreography
- Spatial Design
- Tempi
- Rhythms
- Polyrhythmic
- Energy
- Dynamics
- Artistic Intent
- Embody
- Kinesthetic awareness
- genre
- self-evaluation
- rehearsal strategies
- artistic expression
- Research Methods
- Leadership qualities
- Professional Portfolio
- Choreography
- Production elements
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
