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 changes to level, size, direction and pathways in body shapes, locomotor and non-locomotor movement.
- Create or recall locomotor movement in a variety of chosen pathways; zig zag, circular, straight (i.e., move in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways).
- Join with others to make a circle, then work with others to change it to a square or line.
- Create a curved shape on a low level.
- Recognize steady beat and move to varying tempi of steady beat.
- Observe, discuss and demonstrate changes in the energy and quality of given movement (jerky, smooth, melting, growing, bouncy, floppy).
- Apply changes to a given movement sequence, making practiced steps jerky or smooth.
- Question how changes in the way we do a movement can change the feel of it and also the appearance of it.
- Demonstrate movement or steps in different facings and directions.
- Skipping in a circle, reaching on a diagonal
- Explore the space around their own body: How can they move without getting too close to another dancer, the wall, mirror, surroundings using perception of sight and body awareness.
- Demonstrate unison movement in group formation (marching, skipping in a circle, etc.).
- Discuss, identify and demonstrate ways to modify movement or placement in a group formation using perception of spatial awareness.
- Modify an existing formation by utilizing more dance pathways.
- Modify an existing dance phrase to utilize the space differently.
- Perform a dance in theatre-in-the-round format.
- Perform a dance in a non-traditional setting such as a football field.
Vocabulary
- Elements of Space: Shape, Level, Size, Direction, Pathway
- Time: Tempo/ Speed
- Tempi
- Energy: Movement qualities
- Embody
- Locomotor
- Non-locomotor
- Direction
- Explore
- Spatial Awareness
- Personal space
- General space
- Body awareness
- Dance phrase
- Space
- Props
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
