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
- Discuss how the motion of rowing a boat could be used in a dance about boats or traveling by water.
- Perform a dance phrase exemplifying a mother rocking her baby multiple times in a dance to communicate a nurturing environment.
- View Jose Limon's There is a Time with its recurring circles in a relation to the cycles of time.
- Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast a dance that the students are familiar with and a dance that are not familiar (i.e., cupid shuffle and the African Highlife).
- Watch a clip from the ballet Sleeping Beauty and discuss what movements are performed that tell the audience she falls asleep.
- Discuss as a class what qualities make a good dance, create a class rubric and use the rubric to evaluate a professional dance work.
Vocabulary
- Describe/ demonstrate recurring movement phrases and discuss why they are used in dance.
- Identify qualities of movement that enhance the artistic intent of a dance in a specific style or cultural practice.
- Use dance terminology to describe how certain movements help tell a story in a dance.
- Create criteria that makes a dance artistic and meaningful. Relate the criteria to the elements of dance.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
