Students' dance-making abilities will continue to be developed as they find their own reasons for creating dances. Ask the students why they think choreographers create. Discuss with students that dance is a form of communication and many choreographers and dancers use dance for expression. Make connections to the students' own lives. For example, many cultural dances are expressions of peoples.
Citations appear in full in the bibliography, alphabetized by title .
Have individual or small groups of students do a research project investigating a choreographer and her or his work. Select a choreographer and look closely at his or her work. Discuss with students why they think the choreographer created the dance. Examine the form of the dance and the way the choreographer used the dance elements and principles of composition. Have students record some of their observations about the dance in their portfolios.