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
- Students create a call and response hand clapping rhythm and allow students to identify the pattern.
- Students create a short phrase that includes a pattern of movement, then have other students identify the pattern.
- View and/ or perform the Russian Troika, Charleston Bump, or Hoe Ana cultural dances.
- Sauté to show surprise, melt to show sadness, leap to show happiness.
- Identify the characters and describe the story in a narrative dance.
- Draw a picture and write a caption in response to a live or recorded performance of dance.
- Create short sentence that tell a story and have students improvise movement to describe the sentence.
Vocabulary
- Identify recurring movement.
- Create recurring movement.
- Perform dance movements from a culture or genre and describe movement.
- Identify meaning utilizing simple dance terminology.
- Identify and explain movement to convey a theme or concept.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
