Dance: High School: Proficient

Create

Perform

Respond

Connect

 Creating: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Consistently apply research to support development of artistic ideas (e.g., research different styles of Chinese fans to support designing a prop). 

Creating: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Identify different strategies dancers use to generate and organize their movement ideas.

Creating: Refine and complete artistic work. Use historical and cultural context to refine personal movement choices.

Performing: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Demonstrate how choreographers use specific techniques to evoke, express, or communicate in a movement work.

Performing: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Contribute to the production of a movement work (e.g., run a section of a rehearsal). 

Performing: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Modify a dance performance to clarify its artistic intent by anticipating viewers’ responses. 

Responding: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Compare and contrast different movement works in use of theme, space, timing and rhythms, gestures and body language, properties (props), or costumes.

Responding: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Compare and contrast the artistic elements that make contemporary dance unique 

Responding: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Choose and defend different criteria for evaluating dance work.

Connecting: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe how dance influences their approach to other academic disciplines (P.D.Co.10). HSS Connection: Students connect the popularity of the Charleston to influences on the Harlem Renaissance in History class.  

Connecting: Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Explain the relationship between dance and commercialization or propaganda (e.g., arguing whether or not a commercial depiction of hip-hop dance is authentic).