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

AE17.D.ADV.15

Explain how structure and meaning in choreography are developed through intentional movement and relationships in a variety of dance genres and styles.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
EQ: How is dance understood?

Skills Examples

  • Select a specific dance structure and develop a dance that has a theme or meaning.
  • Use two different dance structures and perform the same dance phrase in the structures. Discuss which structure works best with the phrase.
  • Observe 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. Articulate one's understanding in an essay.
  • Identify and raise aesthetic questions about dance experiences and how they deepen understandings.
  • Use a recording of a performance to reflect upon and evaluate a dance that one choreographed; then, present one's ideas in an essay, review, or presentation.
  • Compare and contrast aesthetic choices in one's own choreography in two variant dances; present ideas in an essay, review, or presentation.
  • Create a graph of multiple opinions about choreographic choices and explain how each may have value for considering revisions.
  • Maintain a journal of collected opinions from multiple sources concerning your choreographic choices.

Vocabulary

  • intentional movement
  • aesthetic
  • cultural values
  • styles
  • Elements of Dance
  • Convey meaning
  • multiple perspectives
  • personal, peer, and cultural values to justify

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
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