Dance Instructional Guide

Beginning & Introductory Dance Courses at a Glance

Recording, Reflecting, Revising, & Responding

Elements of Dance, Technique, & Performance Understand and apply elements of time, space, energy, dynamics, and body mind principles to texture and enhance dance technique and performance. Generate and explain production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of a dance performance.

Choreography & Improvisation

Appreciating & Interpreting Dance as Expression

Collaboration, Professionalism, & Etiquette

Healthy Practices in Dance

Topic

Experience, view, research, compare, and discuss dances, styles, and genres across cultural and historical contexts. Explore and apply various criteria to interpret and evaluate how dance can express problems and perspectives. Apply appropriate genre-specific terms.

Choreograph and/or improvise an original dance that expresses artistic intent. Identify personal movement preferences and strengths. Compare the choreographic process to other creative endeavors.

Appropriately utilize dance terminology and systems of recording. Articulate, justify, and document movement choices. Revise work based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and feedback.

Develop, document, articulate, and work toward personal plans and performance goals related to dance ability, healthful practices, and/or injury prevention.

Perform as a productive and collaborative member and/or leader of a

Student Expectations

group in class, rehearsal, and performance.

Applying Dance Terminology

Time

Cultural and Historical Context

Choreography

Goal Setting

Energy

Recording and Documentation Systems

Improvisation

Collaboration

Personal Planning and Practice

Prioritized Vocabulary and Concepts

Space

Dance Styles and Genres

Artistic Intent

Leadership

Dynamics

Healthful Practices

Self-Reflection and Feedback

Personal Movement Preferences

Rehearsal and Performance Etiquette

Problems and Perspectives

Body-Mind Principles

Injury Prevention

Revision of Work

Production Elements

Creative Process

Articulating Response

Artistic Intent

Inquiry, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Viewing

Writing, Inquiry, Speaking, Listening, Reading, Viewing

Writing, Speaking, Listening, Reading, Viewing

WISR Connection(s)

Inquiry, Speaking, Viewing

Speaking, Listening, Viewing

Writing, Inquiry, Speaking, Reading