Grade 10 - Dance Company

DANCE COMPANY 10

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Explore and create

Reason and reflect

Communicate and document

Connect and expand

Growth as a dancer requires risk taking, perseverance, resilience, and reflection.

The rehearsal and performance processes of a dance company offer ways of exploring our identity and sense of belonging.

Choreographic works communicate ideas, emotions, and perspectives through movement, sound, costumes, lights, and set design.

Artistic choices communicate the choreographer's intent.

Rehearse and perform choreographic works using a variety of dance elements, skills, and techniques from historical and contemporary cultures

Create, rehearse, refine, and perform with a dance company for a variety of purposes and contexts

Develop an articulate body as an instrument of expression

Explore the interplay of movement, sound, image, and form to convey meaning in dance

Apply anatomically and developmentally sound movement principles

Express a range of ideas, intents, and emotions through dance

Recall, rehearse, and perform movement phrases both collaboratively and as an individual

Explore the influences of context on a dance technique, genre, or style

Take creative risks to develop as a dance artist and express choreographic intent

Consider audience, venue, and place while composing, rehearsing, and performing

Engage physically and mentally to prepare for and recover from rehearsals and performances

Engage in rehearsal and performance processes with a variety of choreographers

Use the language of dance to describe, interpret, and analyze dance works

Work co-operatively and collaboratively with an ensemble in rehearsal and performance

Reflect on rehearsal and performance experiences

Apply constructive feedback on rehearsal and performance skills

Demonstrate an awareness of self, audience, and others during rehearsals and performances

Use technical vocabulary to describe, document, and respond critically to rehearsals, compositions, and performances

Communicate ideas and emotions related to the choreographer's intent

Demonstrate personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding to dance, including movement, music, thematic, and costume choices

Explore educational, personal, and professional opportunities in dance or related fields

Explore First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local cultural knowledge to gain understanding through movement and dance

Connect with local issues and communities through dance

Consider personal safety, injury prevention, and physical health when planning, rehearsing, and performing choreography

roles and responsibilities within a dance company

rehearsal and performance skills

technical and expressive skills

stage etiquette

elements of dance

techniques and movement principles

compositional skills, forms, and structures

choreographic devices

principles of design

kinesthetic and spatial awareness

safety protocols

dance notation

contributions of key dance innovators in specific genres, contexts, periods, and cultures

traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through movement and dance

ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism