Unpacked Content
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?
EQ: What influences choice-making in creating choreography?
Skills Examples
- Execute a sequence of movements in different ways (i.e., different levels, timing, directions, body parts).
- Create a dance based on a short story, with a beginning, middle and end. Create a dance to a short poem and explain why movement expressed the idea.
- Improvise movement to verbs and adjectives. Recall the movement and sequence to repeat.
- Using basic stick figures to draw shapes used in a series of movements.
Vocabulary
- prompts
- elements of dance
- locomotor
- non-locomotor
- dance phrase
- structure
- concept and inspirations for choreography
- dance phrase
- improvisation
- notation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
