Arts Education 7
Outcomes:
Create dance compositions that express ideas about the importance of place (e.g., relationships to the land, local geology, region, urban/rural environments).
Investigate and manipulate the elements of dance and principles of composition including tension and resolution.
Create and refine transitions within choreographic forms (e.g., ABBA, narrative).
Investigate how dramatic character develops from role.
Use drama elements, strategies, negotiation, and collaboration to help shape the direction of the drama and/or collective creation.
Express ideas about the importance of place (e.g., relationships to the land, local geology, region, urban/rural environments) in drama and/or collective creation.
Investigate improvisation using the voice, instruments, and a wide variety of sound sources from the natural and constructed environment.
Investigate and manipulate elements of music and principles of composition including tension and resolution.
Use traditional and/or homemade instruments to investigate relationships between musical expression and place (e.g., world music, African and Latin drumming, Indonesian gamelan, North American First Nations' flutes, Caribbean steel bands, urban street culture).
Create visual art works that express ideas about the importance of place (e.g., relationship to the land, local geology, region, urban/rural landscapes, and environment).
Investigate and use various visual art forms, images, and art-making processes to express ideas about place.
Use image-making skills, tools, techniques, and problem-solving abilities in a variety of visual art media.
Outcomes:
Respond to professional dance, drama, music, and visual art works using analysis, personal interpretation, and research.
Investigate and identify ways that the arts can communicate a sense of place.
Examine and describe how arts expressions of various times and places reflect diverse experience, values, and beliefs.
Outcomes:
Investigate how artists' relationship to place may be reflected in their work.
Investigate how Indigenous artists from around the world reflect the importance of place (e.g., relationship to the land, geology, region, urban/rural environments).
Investigate and identify a variety of factors that influence artists, their work, and careers.