AE17.D.ADV.13

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

AE17.D.ADV.13
Collect evidence that supports personal excellence in leadership qualities and advanced performance skills from multiple individuals with professional perspectives to be included in a professional portfolio indicating college and career readiness.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Dance performance is an interaction between performer, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.
EQ: How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?

Skills Examples

Demonstrate spatial awareness by maintaining spatial design of a circle with equal space between dancers while performing a locomotor turn sequence with leaps and/or floor rolls.
Maintain the quality and metric phrasing of a waltz while performing to music that is written and performed as a march.
Shift the accents within a seven-count phrase to establish the appearance of a polyrhythmic structure that mixes meter within that phrase (i.e. 3/4 + 4/4; 2/4 + 2/4 + 3/4; and 5/4 + 2/4).
Demonstrate awareness of artistic intent and success in clearly modifying energy and dynamics (in a set phrase or composed work) to change the theme, idea or feeling.
Explore energy and dynamics by using improv with teacher calling out different words or phrases that dancers respond to.
Research a chronic injury and implement a conditioning program to alleviate the condition.
Demonstrate effective communication of dance vocabulary and leadership skills by teaching peers a dance of their own work. Plan choreography and artistic intent. Plan and run productive rehearsals using a variety of engaging strategies for dancers. Demonstrate ability to revise and adjust performance components utilizing a range of feedback/ assessment tools including instructor and peer feedback as well as multimedia self-assessment for dancers.
Collect personal references.
Create curriculum vitae or resume.
Gather personal portrait (headshot), dance photos, and video files of choreography.
Modify piece of work with lighting for stage space to adapt and keep artistic intent for performance outside.

Vocabulary

Choreography
Spatial Design
Tempi
Rhythms
Polyrhythmic
Energy
Dynamics
Artistic Intent
Embody
Kinesthetic awareness
genre
self-evaluation
rehearsal strategies
artistic expression
Research Methods
Leadership qualities
Professional Portfolio
Choreography
Production elements

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

COS Examples

Examples: Collect references. Create curriculum vitae or resume. Gather personal portrait, dance photos, and video files of choreography.