Choreography and the Moving Body · Contemporary
Dance as Cultural Resistance
Investigating how dance forms have been used by marginalized groups to preserve heritage and protest oppression.
Key Questions
- 1How does movement serve as a language when words are suppressed?
- 2What happens when a traditional dance is performed in a modern, commercial context?
- 3How can a specific gesture carry the history of a whole people?
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
ON: Dance: Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing - Grade 11ON: Dance: Foundations - Grade 11
Grade: Grade 11
Subject: The Arts
Unit: Choreography and the Moving Body
Period: Contemporary
Suggested Methodologies
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