Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
