AE17.D.8.18

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

EU: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?

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.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Examples: Content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice.