Arts Education 5
Outcomes:
Create dance compositions inspired by pop culture (e.g., street dances, current dance trends in music videos).
Express own ideas using pop dance forms and styles, and apply the elements of dance including:
- actions (extend repertoire of actions with flexibility and clarity of movement)
- body (arm and leg gestures that lead toward, away from, and around own bodies)
- dynamics (acceleration and deceleration)
- relationships (alone, partner, small groups)
- space (pathways, directions, levels, shape).
Demonstrate how various roles, strategies, and elements (e.g., tension, contrast, symbols) function within a drama.
Create drama using pop culture as inspiration (e.g., pop musicians and movie stars, street theatre, or stories and myths from pop culture).
Demonstrate increased skills and abilities in use of the voice and one or more instruments.
Create sound compositions (vocal and instrumental) that draw inspiration from pop culture and demonstrate knowledge of:
- form (binary – AB, ternary – ABA, rondo – ABACADA)
- metre as an organizational technique
- tempo as an organizational technique
- rhythm including beat, tempo, patterns of duration, and metre
- melodies
- harmony as a fundamental component in creating texture (e.g., choral accompaniment)
- scales that differ in structure and tonality (pentatonic, major, minor)
- tone colour as an organizational technique
- expressive use of silence.
Create visual art works that express ideas about, and draw inspiration from, pop culture.
Create art works using a variety of visual art concepts (e.g., positive space), forms (e.g., graphic design, photography), and media (e.g., mixed media, paint).
Outcomes:
Examine the influence of pop culture on own lives and societies, and investigate the work of selected pop culture artists (e.g., Andy Warhol, popular musicians, movie stars, televised music and dance competitions).
Respond critically and creatively to a variety of pop culture expressions.
Outcomes:
Examine perspectives on contemporary life as expressed by artists in pop culture and mass media (e.g., representations of young people in ads, sitcoms, animations, and music videos).
Compare traditional and evolving arts expressions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from different regions of Canada, and examine influences of pop culture on contemporary arts.
Analyze and describe how arts and pop culture expressions convey information about the time and place in which they were created.