Dance: Grades 2, 3

Dance

Students will learn and develop skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts.

Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.

Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as other content areas.

Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

Observe, discuss, analyze and make critical judgments about artistic works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts

Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression. Grades

Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

Demonstrate body coordination and awareness.

Identify and demonstrate the elements of space, time and energy.

Use the elements of movement to express imaginative, literary and personal themes.

Observe and respond to a variety of formal and informal dance performances.

Explore connections between the elements of dance and other arts disciplines.

Explore connections between the elements of dance and other content areas.

Understand and apply choreographic principles and compositional forms.

Develop and use vocabulary that is unique to dance.

Develop knowledge and understanding of human diversity through dance.

Expand dance horizons through the use of technology.

Share dance abilities and knowledge with the community through formal and informal dance presentations.

Identify the major joints of the body (shoulders, elbows, wrists, spine, hips, knees, ankles) and explore their range of motion and alignment through exercises and improvisation.

Identify, demonstrate and create increasingly varied combinations of locomotor movements (including skip, leap, roll, slither) and nonlocomotor movements (including turns, kicks, gestures and balances).

Create shapes and original designs with one's own body and with other dancers, accurately identifying symmetry and asymmetry and positive and negative space. (ii) Identify and demonstrate with non-locomotor and locomotor movements, the use of varied spatial elements such as directions, pathways and levels.

Participate in movement explorations with drum or recorded music, demonstrating accuracy in moving with a steady beat and responding to changes in tempo.

Respond with movement to a variety of opposites that relate to energy (e.g., sharp/fluid, strong/delicate, swinging/shaking, active/resting, soft/hard, light/heavy and free/controlled).

Develop and refine movements and gestures to express emotions, memories or personal stories.

Select from a variety of movements to accurately communicate the intention of an experience, idea, theme or story.

Identify and communicate the ideas, experiences or feelings expressed by the movements.

Explain what a specific dance communicates or expresses.

Create a dance that uses a concept found in another arts discipline.

Identify movement as described in a variety of content areas (e.g., pathways and force of weather; shapes and actions of animals; intersections, pathways and interruptions of transportation; shapes and spatial relationships of geometry) and respond through movement.

Create movement sequences that explore the choreographic principles of unity, variety, contrast and repetition.

Create an original movement sequence with three distinct parts: a beginning, middle and end (ABA or ABC).

Observe formal and informal performances and use the elements of dance and choreographic principles to analyze performances.

Demonstrate understanding, through observation and experience, that folk and social dances are common to all world cultures.

View and respond to a variety of dances from other cultures and infer the influence of media and technology.

Participate in informal and formal dance presentations.