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
- Explore and perform a variety of canons that include patterns of movement.
- Identify recurring movements in Swan Lake.
- Compare and contrast ballet and tap dance styles, focusing on the quality of movement in each style.
- Compare and contrast modern dance and ballet, focusing on contract with the floor.
- Create a dance phrase that tells a popular nursery rhyme and identify the movements using simple dance terminology.
- Interpret a dance as sad because all of the movements are heavy and sustained.
- View a live or recorded cultural dance and list the different qualities of movement [i.e., slash, punch, float, sink (Labon efforts)].
- Discuss how ballet uses bound movements of the torso with free movements performed by the arms and legs.
Vocabulary
- Identify patterns of movement to improve dance phrase.
- Compare and contrast a variety of dance genres or styles.
- Utilize dance terminology.
- Identify movement relating to main idea.
- Identify qualities of movement in genre: specific, style, or cultural dance.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
