Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dance performance is an interaction between performer, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.
EQ: How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
EQ: How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
Skills Examples
- Demonstrate clear movement choices in different directions, facings and levels.
- Design basic shapes of the body and sequence while connecting movement that uses spatial elements.
- Use breath phrasing to execute a work by Martha Graham.
- Reflect on syncopation and accents from musical jazz compositions by performing isolated bursts of energy juxtaposed with lyrical full-body movement.
- Explore, identify and discuss energy changes that convey a feeling or meaning, then apply various changes in energy to enhance the artistic intent.
- Identify common practices for injury prevention and maintenance. (i.e., R.I.C.E.)
- Chart or document a plan that supports personal performance goals.
- Analyze and evaluate personal performance using performance goals, video documentation, journaling, or peer feedback.
- Identify and discuss performance etiquette. Set attainable personal goals for dance class and assess growth at set intervals.
- Design a costume for a dance performance.
- Determine opening and ending lighting ideas appropriate to the artistic intent of a dance.
Vocabulary
- Choreography
- Clarity of Design
- Musicality
- Kinesthetic Phrasing
- Artistic Intent
- energy
- dynamics
- embody
- alignment
- technical dance skills
- Healthy Practices
- Injury Prevention
- Performance etiquette
- Personal goals
- Self-Evaluation
- Production elements
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
