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Beginner Choreography Rubric

Choreography Project - Individual Choreography Project

Students will work in groups to develop a well choreographed dance. Students will choose their style of dance. The choreography must portray the style accurately and use at least 10 or more choreographic elements. Dance length minimum is 2 minutes. All dances should have a clear beginning and ending and show use of choreographic tools learned throughout the semester.

Rubric Code: SX82C6C

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Subject: Dance

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

Choreography Project
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 4 pts	Fair 3 pts	Poor 2 pts	No Effort 1 pts
Movement Knowledge Choreographer taught/communicated movement to dancers.	Excellent Dancers know the movement extremely well. They are confident and don't need to follow anyone else. Dancers have a great sense of timing, direction, and unison.	Good Dancers know the movement fairly well. They keep together, and have a fairly good sense of timing, direction, and unison. A few mistakes made.	Fair Dancers are somewhat unprepared and unsure of the choreography. There is some sense of timing, direction, and unison.	Poor Dancers are unprepared and unsure of the choreography. There is no sense of timing, direction or unison.	No Effort Made no effort into working with dancers or contributing, but stood with group.
Use of Choreographic Elements Space, shape, tempo	Excellent Went above and beyond. Used more that 10 choreographic element, creatively interpreting the ideas allowing participants to experience the essence of choreography.	Good Used 6-9 choreographic elements. Some thought into ideas and choreographic choices was evident.	Fair Used 2 to 4 choreographic elements but needs more thought into ideas and choreographic choices.	Poor Did not create a piece that reflected the choreographic elements and lacked understanding of the project.	No Effort Refused to compose movement.
Technique Dance Vocabulary and skills learned this year.	Excellent Technical skill/vocabulary is strong in this style and present in all movements.	Good Has a good understanding of technical skill/vocabulary for this style of dance.	Fair Shows some technical skill/vocabulary for this style of dance.	Poor Does not use technique skills/vocabulary properly for this style of dance.	No Effort Complete pedestrian movement repeated over and over.
Creativity and interpretation Original movement generated by choreographer	Excellent The choreographer virtually always worked to create unique, interesting and unpredictable choreography that all team members were able to perform and teach somewhat successfully.	Good The choreographer for the most part worked to create unique, interesting and unpredictable choreography that all team members were able to perform and teach somewhat successfully.	Fair The choreographer sometimes created unique, interesting and unpredictable choreography that all team members were able to perform and teach with limited success.	Poor The choreographer was inconsistent in his/her efforts to work together to create unique, interesting and unpredictable choreography that all team members were able to perform and teach with limited success.	No Effort Group repeated one step over and over.
Use of Music Use of rhythm and combination of movement and music	Excellent Shows a complete understanding of tempo and beat and stays on rhythm throughout the dance. There is a flow to the steps used.	Good Generally accurate in beat, tempo, rhythms of dance sequences most of the time.	Fair Shows basic understanding of tempo and beat, but falls behind and/or speeds up or makes errors in rhythm.	Poor Attempts to keep a rhythm, but gets off beat and speeds up or falls behind often. Doesn't follow beat in music.	No Effort Completely ignores rhythm without artistic purpose.

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Dance

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