AE17.D.ADV.1

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

AE17.D.ADV.1
Explore, discover, and establish a personal voice to communicate intent in choreography.

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

Choreograph a dance based on a chosen social issue, examine, and reflect upon the elements, principles, and forms of dance in order to refine and communicate ideas.
Compare, contrast, and justify the use of the elements, foundations, skills, and technique of dance to support the purposes of dances that were observed or performed.
Produce and perform movement with powerful energy to convey emotions (i.e., using bound energy to express anger or angst).
Demonstrate strength, flexibility, and balance in the bends, extensions, turns, and jumps that are appropriate to the genre of dance being studied.
Provide evidence to support intentional choreographic choices within one's own work.
Compare one's own personal aesthetic choices with the aesthetic choices of a variety of professional choreographers.
Create and use an appropriate rubric for self-evaluation and reflection.
Articulate (verbally or in writing) artistic intent in relation to chosen choreographic forms and devices.
Create or use an appropriate rubric for self-evaluation and reflection.
Demonstrate the ability to selectively use feedback to revise choreography through revision and performance.
Use video (or other technology) or create graphs and floor plans to inform the process when developing choreography and to understand staging.

Vocabulary

choreography
movement vocabulary
choreographic devices
artistic statement
choreography

Anchor Standards

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