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
- Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and examine relationships between body parts.
- Differentiate between circling and turning as two separate ways of continuous directional change.
- Recall and practice given steps or sequencing with facing or level changes (what was up, make it down, face the back instead of the front).
- Create body shapes that change level and facings.
- Demonstrate locomotor movement on a straight pathway, circular pathway, zig zag pathway; making clear changes when called out.
- Identify the beat in metered music and execute movement on the downbeat (the 1) of duple and triple meter.
- Demonstrate an accented movement (clap, stomp, or jump) only on the downbeat of a piece of music. Practice with different tempos and 2/4, 4/4, and 3/4 music.
- Other examples: Waltz, triplet, walking, or marching.
- Review the terms adverb and adjective and make a list of descriptive words, choose several and execute a given movement or sequence with the word in mind or explore the word with their body in free movement. (i.e., bouncy, jiggly, loose, strong, etc.).
- Other examples: Bouncy leap or floppy fall.
- Demonstrate movement and sequencing that utilizes a variety of pathways for personal space and group formations.
- Skipping across the floor followed by skipping in place.
- Identify modifications for spatial placement in a dance phrase.
- Repeat movement or sequencing in a group formation or group dance using an awareness of his/her own body in space and make modifications to adjust placement as needed or requested.
- Practice using production elements (i.e., multimedia equipment, scenery, costumes, lighting).
Vocabulary
- Space
- Shape
- Symmetrical
- Asymmetrical
- Facing
- Pathway
- Time:
- Accented beat
- Downbeat
- Duple meter
- Triple meter
- Utilize quality of movement
- Embody
- Locomotor
- Non-locomotor
- Personal space
- General space
- Spatial relationship
- Body awareness
- Space
- Projection in performance
- Production elements
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
