State Curriculum - Dance

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Grade PK Grade K
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
a. Demonstrate selected locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
a. Identify and demonstrate basic 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
b. Combine selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes, levels, directions, general and personal space, energy, and tempo, and use sensory stimuli to create movement
2. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance movement
2. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance movement
a. Explore locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness
a. Demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness
b. Respond to feedback related to timing while executing locomotor and non-locomotor movements
b. Demonstrate balance and timing in directed movement experiences
c. Perform and name selected dance movements
c. Associate selected dance movements with specific dance genres
d. Reproduce movement demonstrated by the teacher
d. Execute memorized movement phrases
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
a. Apply the language of dance to observed movement
a. Apply the language of dance to observed movement from different genres
b. Explore the uses of dance movements
b. Select specific movements and describe their purposes
 

 

August 5, 2008