Dance: Grade 5

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 ways the elements of dance can be manipulated to change ideas, thoughts, and feelings communicated in movement sequences

Demonstrate accurately movement sequences that use the elements of dance to interpret literal ideas

Identify and explain the relationship between technical proficiency and physical attributes

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

Identify origins and perform characteristic movement sequences from a minimum of three different dance genres representative of world cultures

Execute memorized dance studies accurately

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

Explain the purpose and meaning of specific movements in a variety of dances

Identify relationships between societal events and major events in dance

Explain how historical and social roles of dance relate to individual expression

Identify characteristics and origins of various dance genres

Identify themes and ideas common to dance and other forms of human expression

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

Perform and explain movement sequences that demonstrate relationships between dance and other art forms

Perform and identify similarities between dances from cultures related to general classroom studies

Explain the roles of dance in several cultures

Identify connections between various cultures and personal dance experiences

Improvise short movement sequences in response to a variety of sensory and motivational stimuli

Communicate concepts using improvisation

Improvise dance studies individually and in small groups

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

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

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

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

Recognize and describe selected performance competencies, such as awareness of space, concentration, projection, and clarity, in dance performances

Use given criteria 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

Describe how the selection of aesthetic principles affects personal performances, improvisations, and choreography