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
- Use a variety of prompts for inspiration (i.e., music/ sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance experiences).
- Find a way to travel across the floor only using a low level.
- Select a choreographic device and create a dance phrase (i.e., retrograde, scramble/ deconstruct, transposition, inversion, or fragment).
- Create a short movement phrase and perform with "sad" emotion then "happy" emotion. Discuss how the movement changed.
- Discuss and use peer feedback or instructor feedback.
- Create a floor map, using different colors for different levels of movement.
Vocabulary
- prompts
- use elements of dance
- movement problem
- choreographic devices
- structure
- dance phrase
- concept and inspirations for choreography
- feedback and revision
- dance study
- notation
- dance phrase
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
