AE17.D.8.16

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

AE17.D.8.16

Use genre-specific dance terminology to explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
EQ: How is dance understood?

Skills Examples

  • Improvise a short dance phrase that can be repeated and describe how it is related to the context of a dance and artistic intent.
  • Sustain the developpe in an adagio to extend the classical line.
  • Utilize plie to perform a hip hop skill.
  • Observe Alwin Nikolais's Noumenon and discuss how the movement, costuming, lighting, and sound score created intent for the choreography.
  • Write a critique on an observed dance work using an established outline of topics to cover.
  • Consider the use of musical form as patterns to express ideas, such as canon to express a fear that finds some relief but just keeps returning, or motif and development to express a nagging feeling that won't go away, and each time it comes back it gets worse. Patterns of movement by nature may represent ideas for the artistic intent.

Vocabulary

  • Describe and perform recurring patterns of movement.
  • genre-specific terminology
  • elements of dance
  • genres
  • styles
  • culture movement practice
  • artistic expression relationships
  • Evaluate choreography using artistic criteria.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

COS Examples

Example: Sustain the developpé in an adagio to extend the classical line.

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