AE17.D.7.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 7 - Dance

AE17.D.7.1

Develop choreography using a variety of prompts through relating similar or contrasting ideas.

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

  • Use Music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/ recall, current news, or social events to create movement.
  • Examine how the choreographic process parallels the writing process and how the characteristics of writing relate to the characteristics of dance.
  • Apply dance-related vocabulary/ terminology to compare and discuss the choices made by different choreographers as they sought to express the same theme.
  • Choose an emotion (such as happiness) and apply the elements of dance to perform movements that communicate the emotion to an audience.
  • Apply the elements of dance to perform movements that communicate the idea that they have just received a gift.
  • Draw at random pieces of paper on which devices have been written—draw one from a bowl of ideas, and one from a bowl of emotions (the bowls and papers having been prepared in advance by the teacher); then, perform movements in sequence to convey what is written on one's pieces of paper.
  • Explore the effect of variations in tempo by performing a dance three times; then, identify any parts that could be improved. Use this evaluation to differentiate between what needs more practice and what needs to be changed.
  • Discuss free-and-controlled-flow and sustained-and-percussive-energy when identifying and critiquing qualities of energy in a dance.
  • Examine Labanotation or Benesh movement notation.
  • Research Labanotation or Classical Ballet terminology.

Vocabulary

  • choreography
  • prompts
  • codified movement
  • choreography
  • dance terminology
  • artistic intent
  • dance study
  • choreographic devices
  • artistic criteria
  • dance study

Anchor Standards

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

COS Examples

Examples: Music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news, or social events.

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