AE17.D.AC.4

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

AE17.D.AC.4
Develop an artistic statement that explains how and why an original composition was choreographed, reflecting on personal, cultural, and artistic perspective.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic devices serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.
EQ: What influences choice-making in creating choreography?

Skills Examples

Use understanding of visual art design principles (form/ design, theme, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, variety) to set spatial arrangements and formations.
Create choreography and evaluate the experiences and cultural connections that shaped choreographic choices.
Research the evolution within a specific genre of dance (i.e., the work of choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Mark Morris or choreographers Bill Robinson, Gregory Hines, and Savion Glover).
Interpret a choreographer's personal aesthetic criteria by observing several works by the choreographer.
Demonstrate strength, flexibility, and balance in the bends, extensions, turns, and jumps that are appropriate to the genre of dance being studied.
Create dances using choreographic devices, such as transposition, opposition, and accumulation.
Create dances using identifiable choreographic forms, such as ABA, canon, and theme and variation.
Create a written statement describing one's inspiration, intended audience, emphasis, and choices when creating a dance.
Create or use an appropriate rubric for self-evaluation and reflection.
Use video (or other technology) or create graphs and floor plans to inform the process when developing choreography and to understand staging.
Create or use an app to generate dance formations for staging.
Justify the use of a fast tempo to convey chaos or adagio movement with allegro musical accompaniment.
Use a recording device to video a performance at least three times from three different stage perspectives in order to evaluate the accuracy and quality of that performance.
Incorporate Labanotation symbols to document the use of breath in choreography in order to evaluate the use of breath.

Vocabulary

prompts
choreography
styles
genres
choreographic devices
artistic statement
choreography

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.