Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dancers use the mind-body connection and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
Skills Examples
- Create a movement sequence that involves still shapes in various levels along with moving shapes through jumping, rolling or other dynamic movement (i.e., X-jump, C-jump, floor roll).
- Improv with a call prompt "bound" and other associated words with focus on what body part is starting the movement. Follow with "free" and other associated words with focus on the initiation point. Only explore each for a short period and discuss. Could be done in small groups and they can teach the movement created, or discussed as a class as part of a larger improv.
- Practice step touch, pivot turn, three-step turn, and clapping.
- Discuss ways to promote muscular strength, endurance, and injury prevention. Promote healthful eating and good nutrition as proper food for the body.
- Keep an ongoing list of personal dance goals.
- Identify ways to improve performance qualities and collaborate with peer group to establish a list of group goals to apply to practice for a dance.
- Perform a dance in two different locations, such as an auditorium and outdoor venue.
- Incorporate a fog machine, strobe light, and backlit cyclorama to enhance an eerie dance.
Vocabulary
- Space: shapes and pathways
- dance phrase
- movement phrase
- rhythm
- explore
- core to distal movement initiation
- Embody
- safe practices and injury prevention
- performance goals
- alternate performance venue
- production elements
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
