AE17.D.8.6

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

AE17.D.8.6
Experiment with and apply a variety of recognized systems to document a section of a dance by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.
EQ: How do choreographers use self-reflection, feedback from others, and documentation to improve the quality of their work?

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 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

COS Examples

Examples: Labanotation, motif writing, Classical Ballet vocabulary or Video Collaboratory.

AE17.D.8.6 Experiment with and apply a variety of recognized systems to document a section of a dance by using words, symbols, or media technologies.