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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade 6

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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. Compare ways the elements of dance are manipulated by different choreographers to communicate similar meaning
  2. Demonstrate accurately dance studies that use the elements of dance to interpret non-literal ideas

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Objectives
  1. Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, and endurance, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance
  2. Perform consistently basic dance skills with technical proficiency
  3. Perform accurately and describe characteristics and origins of movement sequences from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures
  4. Reproduce memorized dances accurately
  5. Identify healthful physical behaviors for dancers

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  • 3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
Objectives
  1. Identify physical attributes required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance
  2. Identify dance skills and movement sequences that improve technical proficiency

August 5, 2008