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
- Create movement from spoken word, text, poetry, images, or nature.
- Create a dance with a beginning, middle, and end that includes zigzag pathways and changes in energy.
- Manipulate movement by utilizing choreographic devices such as retrograde, mirroring, or transposition.
- Utilize ballet movement to create a story.
- At the end of a dance study, reflect in a journal what changes were made during the process, why were they made, and what was the end result.
- Record changes in choreography in a dance journal.
Vocabulary
- choreography
- prompts
- movement problems
- choreography
- elements of dance
- choreographic devices
- structure
- codified movement
- style
- dance study
- concept and inspiration for choreography
- dance study
- feedback and revise
- notate
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
