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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade 1

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Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

Dance:

Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

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Objectives
  1. Identify and demonstrate basic and irregular locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
  2. Combine selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes, levels, directions, general and personal space, energy, and tempo, and use sensory stimuli to create movement phrases
Objectives
  1. Demonstrate movement phrases using kinesthetic awareness
  2. Execute movement phrases using balance and timing effectively
  3. Identify various movements from dance genres representative of world cultures
  4. Execute memorized movement phrases accurately

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  • 3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
Objectives
  1. Identify movements in phrases from different genres using the language of dance
  2. Select specific movements to explore and explain their purposes

August 5, 2008