Use inquiry in dance to extend understanding of place (e.g., examine historical relationships of people to the land in Saskatchewan):

• Generate key questions to guide inquiry in dance (e.g., How could we represent through dance the relationships between people and the prairie landscape or the difference between urban and rural environments?).
• Summarize and focus knowledge of topic to determine information needs.
• Generate additional relevant questions for exploration.
• Prepare and use a plan to access the Internet and other sources (e.g., print, digital, community) to gather ideas for dance-making.
• Use the dance-making process to explore the central questions and ideas (e.g., How can we show through movement the vastness of the prairie spaces or the migration of peoples?).
• Expand on dance and movement ideas in reflective records such as journals, blogs, and video or audio recordings.
• Keep a record of dance phrases using invented and/or traditional notation symbols, and video where possible, to explore, record, and reconstruct movements.
• Reflect, analyze, and make connections between the original topic or inquiry question and subsequent dance explorations.

Investigate how a single idea can be developed in many ways and directions (e.g., How many different ways can we represent in movement a sense of community within an isolated landscape?).

Recognize valuable accidents in exploration and put them to use when appropriate.

Demonstrate self-awareness in decision making about own movement selections.

Reflect on how movement, dance elements, and principles of composition can be organized to convey meaning in dance (e.g., What message or ideas does our dance communicate about our sense of place in Saskatchewan?).