Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 6 - Dance

AE17.D.6.1

Compare a variety of prompts and make selections to expand movement vocabulary and artistic expression.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
EQ: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?

Skills Examples

  • Create a movement phrase and explore the movement to different sounds of music. Compare how the music changed the way the movement was performed.
  • Listen as the teacher plays different kinds of music. Create and perform movement that suits a particular piece of music. Then create and perform movement that contrasts with (does not suit) the music; discuss the difference.
  • Discuss the way that movements are suited to different social events (i.e., by comparing spectators doing the wave at a sporting event to students walking in pairs down the aisle at their graduation ceremony).
  • Implement practices such as fall and recover, pop and lock, contract and release into a movement phrase.
  • Create dances using choreographic devices, such as expansion, diminution, and reverse.
  • Choreograph a narrative dance that shows relationships, such as friendship.
  • Use inversion to create a dance about opposition.
  • Invent a simple system (such as a = jump, b = skip, and c = reach); then, mix up the order of the letters to explore the sequencing.

Vocabulary

  • prompts
  • movement vocabulary
  • artistic expression
  • movement vocabulary
  • choreography
  • utilize elements of dance
  • dance study
  • artistic intent
  • choreographic devices
  • structure
  • artistic criteria
  • dance study
  • concept, impact and inspiration for choreography
  • feedback and revise
  • notation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
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