Dance: Grade 8

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

Analyze various dances to determine how the elements of dance are used to communicate meaning

Incorporate the elements of dance to develop dances that interpret a variety of stimuli

Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, endurance, balance, articulation, timing, power, speed, and strength, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance

Perform consistently more complex dance skills with technical proficiency

Perform with technical proficiency and compare characteristic dances from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures

Reproduce memorized dances accurately

Explain ways healthful physical behaviors for dancers enhance physical attributes and technical proficiency

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

Analyze and perform dance skills and movement sequences to improve personal technical proficiency

Research, perform, and analyze the form, content, and meaning of traditional dances from a variety of cultures

Compare the significant roles and functions of dance in a variety of cultures

Compare how various cultures and peoples are connected through dance experiences

Explain how major developments in dance are related to historical events, societal events, and the people of various cultures

Compare or analyze how choreographers use various dance genres for individual, cultural, and social expression

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

Identify themes, ideas, and issues common to dance, other art forms, the humanities, and sciences

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

Create and analyze movement sequences that demonstrate relationships between dance and other content areas

Improvise dance studies in response to a variety of sensory and motivational stimuli

Communicate abstract concepts using improvisation

Create dances individually and in groups using the improvisational process

Create dances by selecting and applying choreographic forms to communicate meaning

Organize dances by combining elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms

Manipulate the elements of dance to convey similar and contrasting ideas and concepts

Manipulate movement ideas using aesthetic principles as criteria for revision

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

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

Formulate and use multiple sets of 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 and the elements of dance affect audience response

Analyze how performance competencies, the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles affect audience response

Articulate rationales to explain conceptualizations, aesthetic decisions, and effectiveness of personal performances, improvisations, and choreography