| Curricular Competency |
Explore, create, and perform movement motifs, phrases, and dance compositions in large-group, small-group, and solo contexts |
Dance Foundations 12 |
Explore and create |
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| Big Ideas |
Active participation in the arts is essential to building culture, expressing personal identity, and gaining insight into the human experience. |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Through dance we can communicate ideas, challenge opinions, and inspire change. |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Artistic choices enhance the choreographer’s intent. |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Choreographic works communicate meaning through movement, sound, costumes, and set design. |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Experiences in a dance company are transferable to personal, professional, and educational contexts. |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: dance company |
Elaboration: a performance-based ensemble |
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| Content |
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: cultural appropriation |
Elaboration: use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, 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 |
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| Content |
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through movement and dance |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
contributions of key dance innovators in specific genres, periods, and movements |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
dance notation and vocabulary |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: dance notation |
Elaboration: the codified, symbolic representation of dance movement and form |
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| Content |
safety protocols |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: safety protocols |
Elaboration: procedures to prevent injury or harm to self and others involving, for example, environment, biomechanics, clothing, and footwear |
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| Content |
kinesthetic and spatial awareness |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
skills specific to a technique, genre, or style |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: technique |
Elaboration: examples in modern dance: suspend, fall, breath, weight, oppositional pull, swing, contraction, spiralexamples in hip hop: grooving, isolations, rhythm, foot patterns, body rolls, freestyleexamples in ballet: positions of the feet and arms, turnout of the legs, barre and centre work, including plié, tendu, fondu, rond de jambe |
| Keyword: genre, or style |
Elaboration: for example, classical, contemporary, culturally specific |
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| Content |
anatomically and developmentally sound movement principles |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: movement principles |
Elaboration: includes alignment, weight transfer, flexibility, strength, balance, coordination |
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| Content |
principles of design |
Dance Company 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: principles of design |
Elaboration: unity, variety, repetition, contrast, sequence, climax, proportion, harmony, balance, transition |
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