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
- View a professional dance work, identify multiple patterns of movements and discuss their relationship in the context of the artistic intent.
- Revise an existing dance phrase adding the elements of dance to enhance the phrase.
- Working in small groups, evaluate peer choreography using the elements of dance, technique and or artistic expression as criteria. Apply constructive feedback.
- Analyze and interpret recognized works by a variety of historical and contemporary choreographers.
Vocabulary
- compare patterns
- elements of dance
- artistic expression
- critique artistic expression
- Evaluative Criteria
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
