Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
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 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
