Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Musical theatre
a fully staged production, concert staging, or scene study. The Big Ideas for Musical Theatre 12 are drawn from all four disciplines within Arts Education: dance, drama, music, and visual arts.
integrates the arts to provide unique aesthetic experiencesemotional, cognitive, or sensory responses to works of art
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Ideas and beliefs conveyed in a musical theatre production can effect change in the artist, audience, and environment.
Growth as an artist requires perseverance, resilience, and reflection.
Musical theatre is informed by history, culture, and values.
Active participation in the arts is essential to building culture, expressing identity, and providing insight into human experience.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
audition, rehearsal, and performance techniques specific to the musical theatre disciplines of drama, music, and dance
Supplementary content may be drawn from the drama, music, and dance curricula.
musical theatre elements, principles, techniques, styles, tools, vocabulary, and symbols
strategies and techniques
the use of dramatic elements and devices in rehearsal and performance contexts for a desired effect, including but not limited to:
to support creative processes
- skills such as interpretation
- use of levels, blocking, movement elements, and speaking to the audience
- speech techniques such as tone, pitch, tempo, accent, and pausing
- character techniques involving body language, expression, gesture, and interaction
interplay of movement, sound, and role interpretation
roles of performers, crew, and audiences in a variety of contexts
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through musical theatre
innovative artists from a range of genres, contexts, periods, and cultures
including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures
history and theory of a variety of musical theatre genres, including their roles in historical and contemporary societies
ethics of cultural appropriation
use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
and plagiarism
health and safety protocols and procedures
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Explore and create
Explore, design, and create musical theatre collaboratively, using imagination, observation, and inquiry
Rehearse and perform musical theatre
Intentionally select and combine a variety of elements and conventions from drama, music, and dance
Demonstrate creative thinking through improvisation
Improvise and take creative risks
make an informed choice to do something where unexpected outcomes are acceptable and serve as learning opportunities
to express ideas, meaning, and mood
Experiment with a range of props, processes, and technologies to create and refine musical theatre productions
Develop and refine musical theatre with an intended message
Combine elements of dance, drama, and music in musical theatre productions
Reason and reflect
Establish and refine performance goals
goals relating to work both on stage and in technical and production roles
individually and with others
Analyze, provide, and reflect on feedback
interpret and respond to musical theatre productions using discipline-specific vocabulary
Develop and reflect on awareness of self, others, and audience
Reflect on rehearsal and performance experiences
Reflect on aesthetic experiences and how they relate to a specific place
any environment, locality, or context with which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity. The connection between people and place is foundational to First Peoples perspectives on the world.
, time, and personal or social context
Communicate and document
Document
through activities that help students reflect on their learning (e.g., drawing, painting, journaling, taking pictures, making video clips or audio-recordings, constructing new works, compiling a portfolio)
, share, and respond to musical theatre in a variety of contexts
Demonstrate respect for self, others, and audience
Analyze the role of story and narrative in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, and beliefs, including protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts
Express cultural identity and values through interdisciplinary arts techniques
Connect and expand
Demonstrate personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding to musical theatre
Explore First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing
First Nations, Métis, Inuit, gender-related, subject/discipline-specific, cultural, embodied, intuitive
, and local cultural knowledge to gain understanding through musical theatre
Examine educational, personal, and professional opportunities in the performing arts
Examine the impacts of culture and society on musical theatre
Apply practices that ensure safe learning, rehearsal, and performance environments