Creative Problem Solving
- The student explores open-ended questions with spontaneity and ingenuity, which leads to the discovery of new ideas.
- The student independently generates a wealth of possible approaches to questions of technique, choreography and overall artistic development.
Critical Thinking
- The student explores links both verbally and experientially between seemingly unrelated ideas.
- The student integrates concepts taught in class and is able to apply them to their artistic progress.
- The student is able to separate the goals of dance technique from the process of dancemaking and is able to demonstrate the differences.
- The student offers deep and multi-faceted insights into artistic processes and performances.
- The student eagerly engages and excels at analyzing, evaluating, and reflecting on artistic processes.
Originality
- The student develops and expresses innovative and imaginative ideas through dance.
- By investigating personal motivations and a broad range of influences the student’s work reveals a distinct voice and the seeds of a unique movement style.
- The student investigates and produces work beyond project requirements.
Personal Risk/Challenge
- The student independently strives to expand artistic possibilities and seeks challenging ideas as an occasion for personal growth.
- The student views 'mistakes' as learning opportunities.
- The student is willing to investigate unfamiliar, unconventional or unpopular movement vocabulary and artistic concepts.
- The student accepts challenges without obvious solutions despite the potential for failure.
Expertise
- The student consistently demonstrates appropriate skeletal alignment, body part articulation, strength, and flexibility when dancing.
- The student uses spatial awareness to heighten artistic expression and demonstrates rhythmic acuity and musicality.
- The student adapts quickly to and is aware of technical, theoretical and stylistic identities within ballet, modern and world dance forms.
- The student is well versed in dance terminology and physicalizes the corresponding principles.
- The student has developed a keen muscle memory and a broad dynamic range.
- The student is able to maintain movement material and embody stylistic and technical differences across a range of forms.
- The student performs confidently, communicating the artistic intention of the choreographer.
- The student clearly develops an idea from initial inception through to presentation.
- The student effectively uses a range of choreographic processes, principles and forms when choreographing dances.
Work Ethic
- The student exhibits professionalism in all aspects of his or her work.
- The student is detail-oriented, fastidious, punctual, focused.
- The student meets deadlines and respects departmental guidelines.
- The student independently uses each moment in class to further personal, technical, and artistic goals.
- The student demonstrates perseverance, self-discipline, self-responsibility, and commitment.
Artistic Communication
- In choreography and performance, the student's work demonstrates the intention to communicate ideas whether conceptual, narrative or abstract.
- The student is dedicated to creating resonant works art.
- The student thoroughly considers and takes responsibility for the impact of his or her creative expression on diverse audiences.
Working Within A Diverse Artistic Community
- The student demonstrates generosity of spirit, and enthusiastically contributes to the growth and development of fellow students and mentors.
- Student contributes to group explorations in the spirit of respectful and imaginative ensemble building, sacrificing individual attention for a greater vision.
- The student contributes at the highest level to class, departmental, and school communities, and advocates for our diverse ECA arts community.