State Curriculum - Dance

 
Grade 8
Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning
a. Analyze various dances to determine how the elements of dance are used to communicate meaning
b. Incorporate the elements of dance to develop dances that interpret a variety of stimuli
2. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance
a. Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, endurance, balance, articulation, timing, power, speed, and strength, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance
b. Perform consistently more complex dance skills with technical proficiency
c. Perform with technical proficiency and compare characteristic dances from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures
d. Reproduce memorized dances accurately
e. Explain ways healthful physical behaviors for dancers enhance physical attributes and technical proficiency
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
a. Analyze physical attributes and technical proficiency required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance
b. Analyze and perform dance skills and movement sequences to improve personal technical proficiency
 

 

August 5, 2008