Courses of Study

1) Develop content for choreography using ideas generated from a variety of prompts.

2) Create a solution to multiple movement problems to develop content for choreography by using the elements of dance.

3) Expand choreographic possibilities by utilizing multiple choreographic devices.

4) Select a codified movement vocabulary or preferred dance style to develop a dance study to communicate a main idea.

5) Explain artistic choices and refinement made through feedback to develop the artistic intent of a short dance study.

6) Illustrate changes in a dance sequence through media technology, written symbols, or words.

7) Integrate static and dynamic shapes with floor and air pathways into dance phrases.

8) Perform movement phrases that show the ability to respond to changes in time generated from various rhythms.

9) Explore bound and free-flowing movement motivated from both core initiation (torso) and peripheral initiation (distal) while analyzing the relationship between initiation and energy.

10) Demonstrate a series of dance phrases using fundamental dance skills.

11) Employ safe practices before, during, and after dancing.

12) Develop performance goals through collaboration with peer ensemble members to repeat sequences, synchronize actions, and refine spatial relationships in order to improve performance qualities.

13) Modify a dance for an alternate performance venue by altering space and movement.

14) Manipulate a variety of production elements to heighten the artistic intent and audience experience.

15) Describe and demonstrate recurring patterns of movement and their relationship in a dance.

16) Compare and contrast the qualities of style used in a dance from one's own personal cultural practice to a style from a different cultural movement practice.

17) Explain how the movements in a dance communicate the main idea of a dance using basic dance terminology.

18) Define qualities of dance that make a dance artistic and meaningful and relate them to the elements of dance in genres, styles, or cultural movement practices.

19) Compare emotions and ideas evoked by two dances with contrasting themes and describe how the themes and movements relate to points of view and experiences.

20) Compare research on how other art forms have expressed a topic or concept, and how the topic or concept might be expressed through dance.

21) Describe how the movement qualities of a dance from a specific genre, style, or culture reflect the ideas and perspectives from which the dance originated.