Dance: Grade 6

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

Compare the contexts of dances from a variety of cultures

Explain how dance reflects and influences history, society, and personal experience

Explain commonalties of content and process among the arts, humanities, and sciences

Develop the ability to improvise dance

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

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

Apply performance competencies in dance

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

Compare ways the elements of dance are manipulated by different choreographers to communicate similar meaning

Demonstrate accurately dance studies that use the elements of dance to interpret non-literal ideas

Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, and endurance, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance

Perform consistently basic dance skills with technical proficiency

Perform accurately and describe characteristics and origins of movement sequences from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures

Reproduce memorized dances accurately

Identify healthful physical behaviors for dancers

Identify physical attributes required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance

Identify dance skills and movement sequences that improve technical proficiency

Research, perform, and compare dances of several cultures related to general classroom studies

Explain the influences of dance on the peoples of several cultures

Identify ways various cultures and peoples are connected through dance experiences

Explain historical events that influenced the development of dance forms, styles, and genres

Describe ways dance is used for individual, cultural, and social expression throughout history

Describe characteristics and origins of various dance genres within and among a variety cultures

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

Identify ways in which the knowledge, skills, and processes of other content areas are related to those of dance

Create dance studies that demonstrate relationships between dance and other art forms

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

Communicate narrative ideas using improvisation

Demonstrate and describe the improvisational process used to create dances

Create movement sequences by selecting and using choreographic forms to support ideas or themes

Create movement sequences using selected elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance

Select elements of dance to convey ideas and concepts

Select aesthetic principles to vary the performance of movement ideas

Demonstrate consistent application of performance competencies, such as of awareness of space, physical discipline, and concentration in rehearsals and dance performances

Analyze dance performances using the elements of dance, aesthetic principles, choreographic forms, and performance competencies as criteria to determine structure

Select and use 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

Explain how performance competencies, the elements of dance, and choreographic forms affect audience response

Describe how aesthetic decision-making affects personal performances, improvisations, and choreography