In this unit of study, students have multiple opportunities to develop a foundational understanding and deepening appreciation of dance as one representation of human activity that illuminates beliefs and values found in, amongst, through, across cultural, historical and social conditions.  Students view dance and engage in verbal discourse, reflective writing, essay writing and interdisciplinary projects as informal and formal measures of understanding.

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• Primary Sources
• 1.) Personal Views of Beauty in Dance and Movement
• 2.) Differences and Preferences About Beauty in Dance and Movement
• 3.) Making a Lexicon - Observation of Intrinsic Elements
• 4.) Form and Meaning
• 5.) Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar
• 6.) Comparing Ballet as a Form of Ethnic (Classical) Dance with Bharata Natyam
• 7-8.) Group Project Progress Reporting
• 9.) Creating Ideals of Beauty through Dance and Movement


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