State Curriculum - Dance

 
Grade PK
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. Demonstrate selected locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
b. Combine selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes, levels, energy, fast and slow, and use sensory stimuli to create movement
2. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance movement
a. Explore locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness
b. Respond to feedback related to timing while executing locomotor and non-locomotor movements
c. Perform and name selected dance movements
d. Reproduce movement demonstrated by the teacher
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
a. Apply the language of dance to observed movement
b. Explore the uses of dance movements
 

 

August 5, 2008