Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Musical theatre integrates the arts to provide unique aesthetic experiences
emotional, cognitive, or sensory responses to works of art
.
Musical theatre
a fully staged production, concert staging, or scene study. The Big Ideas for Musical Theatre 11 are drawn from all four disciplines within Arts Education: dance, drama, music, and visual arts.
can effect change in the artist, audience, and environment.
Growth as an artist requires perseverance, resilience, and reflection.
Musical theatre is informed by history, culture, and community.
Active participation in musical theatre creates personal and cultural connections.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
audition, rehearsal, and performance techniques specific to the musical theatre disciplines of drama, music, and dance
Supplementary content may be drawn from the drama, music, and dance curricula.
musical theatre elements, principles, techniques, styles, tools, vocabulary, and symbols
strategies and techniques
the use of dramatic elements and devices in rehearsal and performance contexts for a desired effect, including but not limited to:
to support creative processes
- skills such as interpretation
- use of levels, blocking, movement elements, and speaking to the audience
- speech techniques such as tone, pitch, tempo, accent, and pausing
- character techniques involving body language, expression, gesture, and interaction
roles of performers, crew, and audiences
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through musical theatre
artists from a range of genres, periods, and cultures
including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures
history of a variety of musical theatre genres
ethics of cultural appropriation
use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
and plagiarism
health and safety protocols and procedures
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Explore and create
Explore and create musical theatre collaboratively, using imagination, observation, and inquiry
Rehearse and perform musical theatre
Select and combine conventions from drama, music, and dance
Take creative risks
make an informed choice to do something where unexpected outcomes are acceptable and serve as learning opportunities
to express ideas, meaning, and emotions
Experiment with props, processes, and technologies to create musical theatre productions
Develop and refine musical theatre productions for an intended audience
Combine elements of dance, drama, and music in musical theatre productions
Reason and reflect
Establish performance goals
goals relating to work both on stage and in technical and production roles
individually and with others
Identify and provide constructive feedback
a form of assessment for learning in which the learner is provided with meaningful observations, comments, and ideas from teachers and peers during the creative process
to refine performances
Describe, analyze, and respond to musical theater productions using discipline-specific vocabulary
Develop awareness of self, others, and the audience
Reflect on rehearsal and performance experiences
Reflect on aesthetic experiences and how they relate to a specific place
any environment, locality, or context with which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity. The connection between people and place is foundational to First Peoples perspectives on the world.
, time, and context
Communicate and document
Document
through activities that help students reflect on their learning (e.g., drawing, painting, journaling, taking pictures, making video clips or audio-recordings, constructing new works, compiling a portfolio)
, share, and respond to musical theatre
Explore the role of story and narrative in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, and beliefs, including protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts
Express personal voice, cultural identity, and values through interdisciplinary arts techniques
Connect and expand
Demonstrate personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding to musical theatre
Explore First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing
First Nations, Métis, Inuit, gender-related, subject/discipline-specific, cultural, embodied, intuitive
, and local cultural knowledge to gain understanding through musical theatre
Explore educational, personal, and professional opportunities in the performing arts
Explore the impacts of culture and society on musical theatre
Apply practices that ensure safe learning, rehearsal, and performance environments