Dance: Grades 4, 5

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 major muscles and bones of the body and explore and extend their range of motion through a variety of exercises and improvisational studies.

Create and perform movement studies for peers which employ and combine a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements

Demonstrate and describe shapes and designs (using appropriate vocabulary) that are made individually and in complementary relationships with others.

Create and perform movement studies for peers that utilize directions, pathways and levels (individually and in groups).

Demonstrate accuracy in movement explorations built upon increasingly demanding rhythmic patterns, tempos and meters.

Demonstrate a broader range of movement qualities with respect to energy (e.g., passive/active, bound/free, firm/fine, sustained/sudden).

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.

Take an active role in a class discussion about interpretations of and reactions to a dance.

Discuss similarities and differences in the experience of a dance, as reported by the dancers and by the observers.

Create a project that shows understanding of an element of dance that is shared with another discipline (e.g., pattern in dance and visual arts).

Use dance to illustrate the movement that is inherent in other content areas.

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

Create a movement study that utilizes the compositional forms of recurring theme and chance dance.

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

Perform and discuss folk and social dances from various local and world cultures and other historical periods.

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

Use media (e.g., photography, video, etc.) to create, record, reflect upon and critique personal dance experiences

Participate in dance presentations, both informal and choreographed, for the school and the larger community.