Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dancers use the mind-body connection and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
Skills Examples
- Explore mirroring with a partner, both locomotor and stationary.
- Use flocking to begin a warm up; each facing change brings a new leader to demonstrate or lead the next step of the warm up.
- Perform dance phrases of different lengths that use various timing.
- Use different tempos in different body parts at the same time.
- Inhale on the descent of the plie' and exhale on the rise.
- Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness of technical skills including: body alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/ range of motion.
- Discuss nutritional choices made in relation to energy efficiency, the effects experienced, and methods for making improvements.
- Create and maintain a rehearsal schedule, journal, video portfolio, or timeline, noting personal areas of improvement and strategies for future improvement.
- Demonstrate leadership qualities such as: commitment, dependability, and responsibility.
- Discuss and identify production elements that would successfully enhance the audience's experience of the artistic intent of the dance. Implement a plan to accomplish that in a performance either for class or other venue.
Vocabulary
- space
- Kinetic sense
- dance phrase
- tempo
- use of breath
- energy
- dynamics
- embody
- technical dance skills
- spatial designs
- healthy practices
- injury prevention
- performance goals
- Nutrition
- Self-assessment
- leadership qualities
- production elements
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
