AE17.D.3.6

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Dance

AE17.D.3.6
Illustrate directions or spatial pathways in a dance phrase by drawing a picture map or using a symbol.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.
EQ: How do choreographers use self-reflection, feedback from others, and documentation to improve the quality of their work?

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 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

Aligned Learning Resources

Hula Dance

Graph a Dance

The Art and Depiction of Dance, Beginning

Making Patterns

Keith Haring Dance Phrase Activity

AE17.D.3.6 Illustrate directions or spatial pathways in a dance phrase by drawing a picture map or using a symbol.