AE17.D.3.18

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

EU: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?

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.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Example: Ballet uses bound movements of the torso with free movements performed by the arms and legs.