Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
EQ: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
