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 Content Standards:: II. Choreography: Understanding choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
Standards:
A. Use improvisation to discover and invent movement and to solve movement problems. B. Improvise, compose, and perform dance phrases based on a variety of stimuli (e.g., sensory cues, ideas, moods). C. Create a dance phrase, repeat it, and then vary it by making changes in the time, space, and/or force/energy. D. Create original dance phrases or brief movement studies that demonstrate the principles of visual design and spatial dynamics. E. Create original dance phrases or brief movement studies that demonstrate the principles of contrast and transition. F. Identify and demonstrate the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative. G. Work alone, with a partner, or in a small group during the choreographic process. H. Demonstrate the following partnering skills to create visually interesting still shapes: creating contrasting and complementary shapes and receiving and supporting small amounts of weight (leaning rather than lifting). I. Analyze and describe the choreographic tools used in major dance works and in those of their peers. J. Use motif writing to create and record brief dance phrases.