| Big Ideas |
Dance offers unique ways of exploring our identity and sense of belonging. |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
|
| Big Ideas |
Elements of dance and compositional skills are the foundation of choreography. |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: compositional skills |
Elaboration: skills that guide a choreographer in the creation of a dance (e.g., selecting movement and motifs, phrasing, stating a theme, applying elements of dance and principles of design) |
|
| Content |
safety protocols |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: safety protocols |
Elaboration: procedures to prevent harm or injury to self and others, including, for example, environment, biomechanics, clothing, and footwear |
|
| Content |
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Dance Choreography 10 |
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 |
|
| Content |
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through movement and dance |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
|
| Content |
local and intercultural performers, movements, and genres |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
|
| Content |
the role of dancers, choreographers, and audiences in a variety of contexts |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
|
| Content |
dance notation |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: dance notation |
Elaboration: the codified, symbolic representation of dance movement and form |
|
| Content |
principles of design |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: principles of design |
Elaboration: unity, variety, repetition, contrast, sequence, climax, proportion, harmony, balance, transition |
|
| Content |
choreographic devices |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: choreographic devices |
Elaboration: methods applied to change or develop movement (e.g., level, dynamics, retrograde, repetition, body part) |
|
| Content |
choreographic forms and structures |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: choreographic forms and structures |
Elaboration: the shape or structure of a dance; the orderly arrangement of thematic material (e.g., AB, ABA, rondo, canon, theme and variation, call and response, narrative) |
|
| Content |
kinesthetic and spatial awareness |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
|
| Content |
skills specific to a technique, genre, or style |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: technique |
Elaboration: examples in modern dance: suspend, fall, breath, weight, oppositional pull, swing, contraction, spiral; examples in hip hop: grooving, isolations, rhythm, foot patterns, body rolls, freestyle; examples 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 |
|
| Content |
elements of dance |
Dance Choreography 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: elements of dance |
Elaboration: body, space, time, dynamics, relationshipsbody: the primary instrument of expression in dance; what the body is doing (e.g., whole- or partial-body action; types of movement, such as locomotor and non-locomotor)space: where the body is moving (e.g., place, level, direction, pathway, size/reach, shape)time: how the body moves in relation to time (e.g., beat/underlying pulse, tempo, rhythmic patterns)dynamics: how energy is expended and directed through the body in relation to time (quick/sustained), weight (strong/light), space (direct/indirect),
and flow (free/bounded)relationships: with whom or what the body is moving; movement happens in a variety of relationships (e.g., pairs, groups, objects, environments) |
|
| Curricular Competency |
Consider personal safety, injury prevention, and physical health when planning, rehearsing, and performing choreography |
Dance Choreography 10 |
Connect and expand |
|