Courses of Study

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.