UP:AE17.D.8.3

Vocabulary

prompts
movement vocabulary
artistic expression
choreography
dance terminology
choreographic devices
dance study
structure
artistic criteria
artistic intent
feedback and revision
notation

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?

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.
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.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.