West Philadelphia High School – Dance 2

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course builds upon Dance 1. Students will learn to accurately describe all aspects of a dance performance (e.g., dance elements, choreography, performance, staging, technical theatre, costume, sound). Students will identify personal movement preferences and demonstrate an increased range of personal movement vocabulary used in choreography. Students will use the elements/sub-elements of dance to make literal or pedestrian movements either abstract or non-literal and create a movement phrase from that product. Students will review, revise, and refine an original work that addresses internal phrasing and the overall phrasing of the work. Through jazz warms-up with Ballet, Modern and Afro- Caribbean styles of dance are integrated into the course content. This course may require prerequisites.