Dance: Grade K

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Respond in movement to a variety of stimuli (for example, music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance).

Explore different ways to do basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements by changing at least one of the elements of dance.

Improvise dance that has a beginning, middle, and end.

Express an idea, feeling, or image, through improvised movement moving alone or with a partner.

Apply suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences.

Depict a dance movement by drawing a picture or using a symbol.

Make still and moving body shapes that show lines (for example, straight, bent, curved), changes levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a circle formation and work with others to change its dimensions.

Demonstrate tempo contrasts with movements that match the tempo of sound stimuli.

Identify and apply different characteristics to movements (for example, slow, smooth, wavy).

Demonstrate same side and cross-body locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning movements, and body shapes.

Move safely in general space and start and stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space.

Move body parts in relation to other body parts and repeat and recall movements upon request.

Dance for others in a designated space.

Select a prop to use as part of a dance.

Identify a movement that repeats in a dance.

Demonstrate and repeat observed or performed dance movements.

Observe movement and use simple dance terminology to describe it.

Select a movement observed in a dance. Demonstrate the movement and explain why it was selected.

Recognize and name an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance and relate it to a personal experience.

Observe a work of art. Describe and then express through movement something of interest about the artwork and ask questions for discussion concerning the artwork.

Describe or demonstrate the movements in a dance that was watched or performed.