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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade 8

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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. Analyze various dances to determine how the elements of dance are used to communicate meaning
  2. Incorporate the elements of dance to develop dances that interpret a variety of stimuli

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Objectives
  1. Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, endurance, balance, articulation, timing, power, speed, and strength, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance
  2. Perform consistently more complex dance skills with technical proficiency
  3. Perform with technical proficiency and compare characteristic dances from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures
  4. Reproduce memorized dances accurately
  5. Explain ways healthful physical behaviors for dancers enhance physical attributes and technical proficiency

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

August 5, 2008