| Big Ideas |
The rehearsal and performance processes of a dance company offer ways of exploring our identity and sense of belonging. |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: dance company |
Elaboration: a performance-based ensemble |
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| Big Ideas |
Growth as a dancer requires risk taking, perseverance, resilience, and reflection. |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: risk taking |
Elaboration: making an informed choice to do something where unexpected outcomes are acceptable and serve as learning opportunities |
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| Content |
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Dance Company 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 |
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| Content |
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through movement and dance |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
contributions of key dance innovators in specific genres, contexts, periods, and cultures |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
dance notation |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: dance notation |
Elaboration: the codified, symbolic representation of dance movement and form |
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| Content |
safety protocols |
Dance Company 10 |
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 10 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
principles of design |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: principles of design |
Elaboration: unity, variety, repetition, contrast, sequence, climax, proportion, harmony, balance, transition |
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| Content |
choreographic devices |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: choreographic devices |
Elaboration: methods applied to change or develop movement (e.g., level, dynamics, retrograde, repetition, body part) |
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| Content |
compositional skills, forms, and structures |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: compositional skills, 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) |
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| Content |
techniques and movement principles |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: techniques |
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: movement principles |
Elaboration: including but not limited to alignment, weight transfer, flexibility, strength, balance, coordination |
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| Content |
elements of dance |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: elements of dance |
Elaboration: body, space, time, dynamics, relationships:body: 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) |
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| Content |
stage etiquette |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: stage etiquette |
Elaboration: the accepted behaviours and attitudes required throughout the production process, including auditions, rehearsals, and performances |
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| Content |
technical and expressive skills |
Dance Company 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: technical |
Elaboration: the ability to reproduce movement accurately in relation to movement principles, elements of dance, and style |
| Keyword: expressive skills |
Elaboration: includes projection, focus, confidence, musicality, spatial awareness, facial expression, sensitivity to other dancers, dynamics, and embodiment of the elements of dance to communicate the style or choreographic intent |
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