Courses of Study

1) Synthesize ideas from a variety of prompts to create choreography using codified and original movement.

2) Develop personal movement preferences while choreographing within a variety of movement styles and genres.

3) Analyze and explain how the implementation of choreographic devices and specific dance structures in the design of an original dance composition impact artistic intent.

4) Develop an artistic statement that explains how and why an original composition was choreographed, reflecting on personal, cultural, and artistic perspective.

5) Create multiple revisions to an original dance, based on self-reflection and feedback from instructors or peers.

6) Develop a strategy to document choreography for a specific need.

7) Create and maintain a sense of spatial design in a dance while performing alone and with others, by accurately and intentionally replicating the choreography.

8) Experiment with unpredictable tempi and rhythms within choreographic parameters to enhance performance quality and artistic intent.

9) Use intentional variations in energy and dynamics to clarify movement phrasing.

10) Apply kinesthetic awareness of other dancers within a group while executing complex spatial, rhythmic, and dynamic sequences.

11) Implement a plan that applies principles of anatomy, nutrition, body conditioning, and injury prevention to a range of technical dance skills for achieving fluency of movement.

12) Plan and execute collaborative and independent rehearsal processes with attention to technique and artistry informed by personal performance goals.

13) Model and document leadership qualities during the performance and rehearsal process while evaluating methods and strategies to enhance performance, using dance and production terminology.

14) Produce a dance concert on a stage or in an alternative performance venue and plan the production elements that fulfill the artistic intent of the dance performance.

15) Analyze choreography and provide examples of recurring patterns of movement and relationships that create structure and generate meaning in a dance.

16) Analyze and compare the use of movement patterns and their relationships within a dance in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices, using genre-specific terminology.

17) Interpret how the relationships of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context enhance meaning and support choreographic intent, using genre-specific terminology.

18) Critique the artistic expression of a dance through the use of collaboratively-developed evaluative criteria.

19) Evaluate a dance that is related to content learned in other subjects and research its context, synthesizing information learned and sharing new ideas about its impact on one's perspective.

20) Investigate a topic and collaboratively create a dance while transferring the learning from this project to other learning situations.

21) Analyze how cultural dance movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria relate to the ideas and perspectives of the people from which the dances originate and explain how this analysis expands one's dance literacy.

1) Explore, discover, and establish a personal voice to communicate intent in choreography.

2) Experiment beyond personal movement preferences and strengths while choreographing to expand personal movement vocabulary.

3) Demonstrate fluency and personal voice utilizing choreographic devices and structures while justifying choices, and explain how they are used to intensify artistic intent.

4) Finalize an artistic statement that communicates how and why personal, cultural, and artistic perspectives influence your choreographic process.

5) Determine a personal preference for a final revision of an original dance by using a process of reviewing, evaluating, revising, and refining choreography, after considering self-reflection and feedback from others.

6) Create a portfolio that includes comprehensive documentation of original choreography and personal performance, including one or more systems and/or technologies that record movement and choreography.

7) Manipulate, adapt, and adjust to spatial differences between performers while executing air and floor pathways so that the intended spatial design in the choreography is preserved.

8) Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of time and phrasing in choreography by performing complex meters, tempi, and rhythms with, without, and against music or sound accompaniment.

9) Employ both extreme and subtle differences in energy and dynamics to express complex ideas, qualities, emotions, and relationships that clarify artistic intent.

10) Perform with kinesthetic awareness during complex solo or ensemble work while maintaining proper technique in a specific genre, and self-evaluate performance.

11) Modify personal practice based on findings from research on principles of anatomy, nutrition, body conditioning, and injury prevention in order to achieve fluency of movement.

12) Implement a range of rehearsal strategies to initiate, plan, and direct rehearsals that obtain the technical skills and artistic expression necessary to achieve performance excellence.

13) Collect evidence that supports personal excellence in leadership qualities and advanced performance skills from multiple individuals with professional perspectives to be included in a professional portfolio indicating college and career readiness.

14) Design and organize production elements for dance concerts to be performed in a variety of venues by changing production elements for each venue as necessary to clarify artistic intent.

15) Explain how structure and meaning in choreography are developed through intentional movement and relationships in a variety of dance genres and styles.

16) Differentiate the way dance communicates aesthetics and cultural values within a variety of genres, styles, or culture movement practices, using specific dance terminology.

17) Analyze and interpret dance elements, movement principles, and context of choreography across a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices in order to interpret meaning and artistic expression.

18) Support the validity of multiple perspectives in a dance critique, using personal preferences, peer perspectives, and an understanding of societal and cultural values as justification.

19) Revise choreography over time by using a sustained practice of analysis of dance elements, personal preferences, content, context, and feedback to influence changes that show evidence of personal growth.

20) Create a capstone project that is influenced by research and explores a variety of techniques, new perspectives, or dance careers to impact original work.

21) Expand personal dance literacy by developing an understanding of how movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria are influenced by the peoples from which dance originates.