UP:AE17.D.K.18
Vocabulary
- Recurring movement
- Dance terminology
- Movement choices
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
- Identity recurring movements in an observed dance phrase (i.e., chaîne turns, step touch, marching, waving arms, and/or shoulder rolls). Demonstrate short and simple movement phrase that students can copy (i.e., step hop, step hop, chasse, chasse, step clap, step clap).
- Perform simple social dance that students can copy (i.e., electric slide, chicken dance).
- Perform simple dance movements and allow students to identify movements (i.e., plie, contraction, flexed foot, chasse, tendu).
- Select a movement and explain what the movement may mean (i.e., jumping to show joy, slow walks to show exhaustion, hiding behind hands to show fear).
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
