State Curriculum - Dance

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Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.:
1. Develop the ability to improvise dance
1. Develop the ability to improvise dance
1. Develop the ability to improvise dance
a. Improvise movements in response to selected sensory and motivational stimuli
a. Improvise movements in response to several sensory and motivational stimuli
a. Improvise short movement sequences in response to a variety of sensory and motivational stimuli
b. Improvise variations on given individual dance studies through manipulation of body, space, time, and energy
b. Communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings using improvisation
b. Communicate concepts using improvisation
c. Improvise dance studies individually to communicate personal ideas or experiences by emphasizing two or more elements of dance
c. Improvise dance studies individually and with a partner
c. Improvise dance studies individually and in small groups
2. Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning
2. Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning
2. Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning
a. Create individual dance studies that integrate the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
a. Create individual and partner dance studies that integrate the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
a. Create group dance studies that integrate the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles to communicate ideas, thoughts, feelings, and concepts
b. Demonstrate a variety of movement effects using repetition, sequence, contrast, unity, balance, and proportion
b. Use repetition, sequence, contrast, unity, balance, proportion, climax, and transition to vary movement
b. Use repetition, sequence, contrast, unity, balance, proportion, climax, transition, harmony, and variety to vary movement
c. Use choreographic forms, such as narrative, theme and variation, ABA, AB, canon, and call-and-response, to communicate ideas through dance movement
c. Use choreographic forms, such as narrative, theme and variation, ABA, AB, canon, call-and-response, and ground bass, to communicate ideas through dance movement
c. Use choreographic forms, such as narrative, theme and variation, ABA, AB, canon, call-and-response, ground bass, rondo, and collage, to communicate ideas through dance movement
3. Develop knowledge and execution of performance competencies in dance
3. Develop knowledge and execution of performance competencies in dance
3. Develop knowledge and execution of performance competencies in dance
a. Explain how consistent application of performance competencies and technical proficiency are essential in dance rehearsals and performances
a. Exhibit awareness of space, concentration, physical discipline, and projection in rehearsals and dance performances
a. Exhibit awareness of space, concentration, physical discipline, projection, and clarity in rehearsals and dance performances
b. Execute movement with technical proficiency and demonstrate performance competencies
   
 

 

August 5, 2008