AE17.D.ADV.17

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

AE17.D.ADV.17
Analyze and interpret dance elements, movement principles, and context of choreography across a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices in order to interpret meaning and artistic expression.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
EQ: How is dance interpreted?

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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.