AE17.D.ADV.20

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

AE17.D.ADV.20

Create a capstone project that is influenced by research and explores a variety of techniques, new perspectives, or dance careers to impact original work.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and context are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
EQ: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?

Skills Examples

  • Examine and justify the impact of dance on choices throughout life, such as choices related to college, performance, and design (including technical choices).
  • Apply one's understanding of how dance-related knowledge, skills, and work habits are vital and transferable to the world of work, including careers in dance, such as by
    • Examining the safety habits, skills, standards, and expectations used in dance and needed for success in the workplace.
    • Researching careers in dance and practicing appropriate work habits and skills.
    • Implementing a plan to meet deadlines and complete work.
  • Create presentations (for senior projects, e-folios, websites, and IB and AP portfolios) that use the connections among the arts and between the arts and other disciplines, life, cultures, and work.
  • Assess how personal choices relating to plagiarism and copyright infringement impact artists and the dance profession.
  • Critique dances, such as Errand into the Maze and Rite of Spring.
  • Create a dance informed by Bob Fosse's work.
  • Dance—High School Advanced 100.
  • Examine Martha Graham's Frontier in relation to the American landscape and westward movement.
  • Evaluate the relationships between the rise of swing dance, big band music, the Harlem Renaissance, and World War II.
  • Reflect upon the impact that modern technology has had on dance as an art form by considering what one has seen on the Internet and TV.

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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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