CH30.3
Develop understanding of dance within a Canadian historical context.
Indicators for this outcome
(a) Analyze how social messages are communicated through time, identify what makes them memorable and use this information in own work.
(b) Describe the significance of the evolution of dance types, styles and specific choreography throughout history and discuss how the work is connected to social activism.
(c) Investigate the synergies and evolutions of dance in response to current cultural globalization.
(d) Investigate choreographers as activists throughout history, and identify how own dance composition relates to these ideas.
(e) Examine dance rituals and ceremonies in a variety of Canadian belief systems.
(f) Investigate the role of dance within Indigenous societies across Canada, specifically pre-contact and post-colonial.
(g) Pose questions about how different belief systems view dance (e.g., repression, affirmation).
(h) Investigate why certain dance compositions were considered to be controversial at different times in Canadian history.
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