AE17.D.7.13

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

AE17.D.7.13

Maintain journal documenting changes and adaptations to movements in performance areas and apply feedback and corrections to future performances.

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?

Skills Examples

  • Demonstrate proper execution of a Grande Allegro phrase.
  • Create a movement phrase (or practice a learned dance phrase) and manipulate timing to create 3 variations of the phrase using accumulation, repetition, augmentation and diminution to change the length of the phrase.
  • Identify descriptions of energy in requested movements a jazz walk should be free and accented, but ballet waltz should be lyrical and soft.
  • Maintain a food log for 4 days with each meal comparing levels of energy 30 minutes prior, also logging sleep practice. At the end of the week discuss which times energy was low and sluggish and how to make better choices to fuel life and activities.
  • Demonstrate functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement, weight shifts, or flexibility/ range of motion in a variety of dance genres.
  • Identify muscular and skeletal components of proper alignment in an arabesque vs first position.
  • View live and recorded professional dancers and collaboratively develop group performance expectations based on information gained from observations.
  • Document rehearsal changes and feedback in a self-assessment journal or personal rehearsal journal.
  • View a professional dance with elaborate lighting or props. As a group, discuss and determine what changes to production elements would be needed to present the piece in a different setting and still keep the artistic intent. Multiple groups could watch and present a plan for different pieces then present findings to the class.

Vocabulary

  • genre
  • styles
  • movement vocabulary
  • variations
  • use of energy
  • kinesthetic understanding of multiple genres or styles of dance
  • embody
  • healthy practices
  • alignment
  • kinesthetic awareness
  • performance goals and expectations
  • performance journal
  • production terminology

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
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