Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dancers use the mind-body connection and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
EQ: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic expression?
Skills Examples
- Establish unity among dancers by performing with a common focus.
- Practice and perform a dance or phrase with others that shows effective use of varied formations, pathways, levels and direction.
- Experiment with the tempo by speeding up and slowing down the movement (rubato) to enhance the kinesthetic phrasing within the required timing of a classical ballet adagio.
- Manipulate or vary energy throughout a movement phrase.
- Experiment with different energies at the beginning or end of the movement phrase and in transitions.
- Discuss how changes can relate to the artistic intent and revise movement choices to improve or change audience interpretation.
- Maintain awareness of other dancers in space and partnering during group dances.
- Identify the muscles required for initiation in a grand battement.
- Explore and explain the metabolism rates between different food groups.
- Document ongoing personal and discussed/collaborative group performance goals. Implement a plan to meet those goals and a time period to reassess goals and revise plan.
- Discuss what makes an "effective rehearsal." Identify effective rehearsal strategies in a rehearsal plan.
- Accept notes post-performance from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.
- Research, discuss and identify production elements necessary for the artistic intent of a given dance or whole concert. Create and implement a plan based on your findings.
Vocabulary
- Spatial design
- choreography
- tempi
- rhythm
- performance quality
- artistic intent
- energy variation
- dynamics
- movement phrase
- embody
- kinesthetic awareness
- Body conditioning
- Injury prevention
- technical dance skills
- Artistry
- Performance goals
- Leadership qualities
- Rehearsal strategies
- Production terminology
- Alternative performance venue
- Production elements
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
