Dance: Grade 4

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 performance

Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis

Relate dance to history, society, and personal experience

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

Demonstrate knowledge of the contexts of dances from a variety of cultures

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 analyze choreography and performance

Identify, analyze, and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance

Explain how the elements of dance are used to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings in movement sequences

Demonstrate accurately movement sequences that use the elements of dance to interpret motivational stimuli

Identify the relationship between technical proficiency and physical attributes

Demonstrate the physical attributes of balance, timing, strength, and speed in movement sequences

Perform characteristic movements from a minimum of three different genres representative of world cultures

Execute memorized dance studies accurately

Describe movement sequences in a minimum of three different dance genres using the language of dance

Explain the purpose and meaning of specific movements in selected dances

Identify relationships between historical events and major developments in dance

Explain how dance relates to individual expression

Identify characteristics and origins of various dance genres

Demonstrate a variety of themes and ideas common to dance and other art forms

Demonstrate ways in which the knowledge and skills of another content area are related to those of dance

Select and perform movement sequences that show relationships between dance and other art forms

Perform and explain the meaning of dances from cultures related to general classroom studies

Explain the reasons why people in various cultures dance

Share a personal dance experience from a specific culture

Improve movements in response to selected sensory and motivational stimuli

Communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings using improvisation

Improvise dance studies individually and with a partner

Create individual and partner dance studies that integrate the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Use repetition, sequence, contrast, unity, balance, proportion, climax, and transition to vary movement

Use choreographic forms, such as narrative, theme and variation, ABA, AB, canon, call-and-response, and ground bass, to communicate ideas through dance movement

Exhibit awareness of space, concentration, physical discipline, and projection in rehearsals and dance performances

Recognize and describe selected choreographic forms, such as narrative, call-and-response, canon, ABA, theme and variation, AB, and rondo, in dance performances

Describe criteria that might be used to critique personal performances, improvised and choreographed, and the performances of others

Explain conventions of audience etiquette and how they relate to dance performances in a variety of cultures and settings

Explain how performance competencies affect audience response

Describe how selection of the elements of dance and choreographic forms affects personal performances, improvisations, and choreography