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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade K

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Aesthetics and Criticism:

Dance:

Standard 4.0 Aesthetics and Criticism

Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments in dance.

Indicator

  • 1. Identify and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance
Objectives
  1. Recognize and describe selected aesthetic principles, such as repetition, unity, variety, and sequence, in dance performances
  2. Recognize selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes and levels, tempo, directions, general and personal space, and percussive and sustained energy, in performances
  3. Identify conventions of audience etiquette and how they relate to dance performances

August 5, 2008