Dance 1 · Week 33 · Performance and Reflection
Dancing for an Audience
Students perform and focus on projecting energy and intent so the audience can feel the dance.
- Students will
- Students perform a short phrase with intentional use of space, time, and energy and adjust focus and projection so an audience can feel the dance.
- SEL skill
- Adjust a performance based on how the audience sees and feels it
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by thinking about how an audience sees and feels a dance and adjusting their performance for them.
- Content focus
- Dancing for an Audience
- Format
- Structured discussion
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding how other people see and feel things, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- DA:Pr4.1.HSI: Dance, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 4 (Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More social awareness activities for Dance 1
- Mirror Work Social awarenessPartners mirror each other's movement and practice reading subtle cues to stay in sync.
- Space and Respect Social awarenessDancing with spatial intention, students explore personal and shared space and how to respect the space of others.
- Dance and Remembrance Social awarenessStudents explore dances that honor ancestors in different cultures and connect them to traditions they know or admire.
- Dance at Día de los Muertos Social awarenessStudents analyze traditional dances seen at Día de los Muertos celebrations and discuss what they mean to the communities who perform them.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.