Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
EQ: How is dance interpreted?
EQ: How is dance interpreted?
Skills Examples
- View recorded or live dance phrases and identify patterns (i.e., Trisha Brown's Accumulation).
- Observe an example of a simple canon.
- Tap: flap, toe heel, shuffle, dig step
- Ballet: plié, tendu, rond de jambe, chaîne
- African Dance: hand waves, step touch, hops
- View a recorded dance work and discuss what the dance may be about. Hypothesize the meaning of dance work (i.e., Alvin Ailey's Revelation, Martha Graham's Lamentation).
- Improvise movement to specific music to evoke specific emotion
- Explore and explain dance choices (i.e., Shaking hands to express frustration, holding heart to express love, pointing to ring finger to express marriage, saluting to express patriotism).
Vocabulary
- Identify recurring movement.
- Identify movements in culture dance or genre.
- Utilize dance terminology to communicate.
- Explain dance choices.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
