Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dance performance is an interaction between performer, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.
EQ: How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
EQ: How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
