AE17.D.8.2

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Dance

AE17.D.8.2
Select personal movement preferences to express an artistic intent in choreography and justify the choices made using genre-specific dance terminology.

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 dance phrase with a specific source of inspiration (music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news, or social events).
Consider the different ways that a jump is used and performed in different genres of dance (i.e., ballet and jazz dance).
Create movements to express words or concepts supplied by the teacher (for example, generate a movement in response to the word "wave" or "jump"); then, compare one's own movement to movements made by other students to express the same word.
Participate in a collaborative dance-building exercise in which the students.
Choreograph a dance with specific reference to one's own culture, hobby, or interest.
Create dances using the choreographic devices of transposition, opposition, and accumulation.
Create variations on a dance that one learned and explain the choices that one made when selecting the changes.
Create a movement study then document the process by using video, Laban, journals, or list.
Observe a dance sequence (created by the teacher) in which something is not quite right; respond by critiquing the sequence and making suggestions for improvements.
Use Labanotation to record one's own choreographed dance.
Document a movement phrase using basic labanotation symbols, motif writing, Classical Ballet vocabulary or Video Collaboratory.

Vocabulary

prompts
movement vocabulary
artistic expression
choreography
dance terminology
choreographic devices
dance study
structure
artistic criteria
artistic intent
feedback and revision
notation

Anchor Standards

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

AE17.D.8.2 Select personal movement preferences to express an artistic intent in choreography and justify the choices made using genre-specific dance terminology.