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?
EQ: What influences choice-making in creating choreography?
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 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
