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.
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.