Dance: Grade 1

Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education - Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

Historical, Cultural, and Social Context: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dance as an essential aspect of history and human experience.

Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.

Aesthetics and Criticism: Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments in dance.

Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance movement

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance

Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis

Demonstrate knowledge of dances from a variety of cultures

Relate dance to history, society, and personal experience

Demonstrate understanding of the relationships between and among dance and other content areas

Develop the ability to improvise dance

Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning

Develop knowledge and execution of performance competencies in dance

Identify and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance

Identify and demonstrate basic and irregular locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

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 phrases

Demonstrate movement phrases using kinesthetic awareness

Execute movement phrases using balance and timing effectively

Identify various movements from dance genres representative of world cultures

Execute memorized movement phrases accurately

Identify movements in phrases from different genres using the language of dance

Select specific movements to explore and explain their purposes

View and describe selected dances from a variety of cultures and identify their purposes

Perform selected traditional dances from various cultures using a variety of formations, partnering, and basic dance steps

Identify common themes by comparing contemporary and historical dance styles from other times and places

Create movements and describe how they can express mood or feeling

Identify and explore ways ideas may be expressed in dance and other content areas

Improvise movements in response to sensory stimuli

Improvise variations on given movement patterns through manipulation of body, space, time, and energy

Use improvisation to communicate personal ideas or experiences through movement by manipulating body, time, space, and energy

Communicate movement ideas using combinations and variations of the elements of dance

Demonstrate movement effects using repetition, sequence, and contrast

Use choreographic forms, such as narrative, theme and variation, and ABA, to communicate ideas through dance movement

Explain how awareness of space and physical discipline affect dance presentations

Perform simple dances from beginning to end incorporating awareness of space and physical discipline

Recognize and describe selected choreographic forms, such as narrative, call-and-response, and canon, in dance performances

Recognize and describe the elements of dance in observed performances

Identify conventions of audience etiquette and how they relate to dance performances in a variety of venues