Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Dance

AE17.D.PRO.1

Experiment using a variety of prompts as inspiration to create an improvisation, movement study, or choreographed dance, and explain the relationships between the prompts and movement choices.

COS Examples

Examples: Current events, sculptures, nature, and recognized works of art.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
EQ: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?

Skills Examples

  • Create movement based on current events, sculptures, nature, or recognized works of art.
  • Use understanding of design principles (form/design, theme, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, and variety) to set spatial arrangements and formations.
  • Choose the best choreographic device to express returning to the main idea at the end of a dance.
  • Select two choreographic devices used within a selected choreographic structure to create a dance.
  • Create or use an appropriate rubric for self-evaluation and reflection.
  • Use learned technique in collaboration with peers to set spatial arrangements and formations.
  • Use movement motifs to develop dance phrases. Create dances using identifiable choreographic forms, such as ABA, canon, and theme and variation.
  • Research statements from accomplished choreographers concerning their choreography to develop an artistic statement appropriate for the student choreographer (i.e., Merce Cunningham, Jiri Kylian, Martha Graham, Trisha Brown).
  • Justify the use of circular formations and connected shapes during the choreographic process to convey community.
  • Use video (or other technology) or create graphs and floor plans to inform the process when developing choreography and understand staging.
  • Demonstrate the ability to use feedback selectively to revise choreography.
  • Identify a way to document a dance by experimenting with different methods of documentation.

Vocabulary

  • prompts
  • improvisation
  • choreographic devices
  • choreography
  • choreographic structure
  • artistic statement
  • choreographic devices
  • choreography
  • choreographic devices

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
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