State Curriculum - Dance

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Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.: Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.: 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
1. Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning
1. Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning
a. Compare ways the elements of dance are manipulated by different choreographers to communicate similar meaning
a. Interpret the meaning of a variety of dance studies and compare how the 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. Demonstrate accurately dance studies that use the elements of dance to interpret non-literal ideas
b. Incorporate the elements of dance to develop dance studies that interpret abstract ideas and concepts
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
2. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance
2. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance
a. Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, and endurance, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance
a. Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, endurance, balance, articulation, and timing, that contribute to technical proficiency in 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 basic dance skills with technical proficiency
b. Perform consistently a variety of dance skills with technical proficiency
b. Perform consistently more complex dance skills with technical proficiency
c. Perform accurately and describe characteristics and origins of movement sequences from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures
c. Perform accurately and describe characteristics of dances from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures
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
d. Reproduce memorized dances accurately
d. Reproduce memorized dances accurately
e. Identify healthful physical behaviors for dancers
e. Explain healthful physical behaviors for dancers
e. Explain ways healthful physical behaviors for dancers enhance physical attributes and technical proficiency
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
a. Identify physical attributes required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance
a. Compare the physical attributes required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance
a. Analyze physical attributes and technical proficiency required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance
b. Identify dance skills and movement sequences that improve technical proficiency
b. Describe and perform dance skills and movement sequences that improve technical proficiency
b. Analyze and perform dance skills and movement sequences to improve personal technical proficiency
 

 

August 5, 2008