Dance: Grades K, 1

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 different parts of the body and improvise movements that use parts alone and in combination with one another.

Participate in movement studies (pattern or problem) that combine locomotor movements (walk, run, gallop, hop, crawl) and non-locomotor movements (freeze, balance, stretch, twist, sway, swing).

Move responsibly in personal and general (shared) space.

Form shapes and create designs with one's own body and with other dancers (e.g., geometric shapes, letters, numbers, animals and objects).

Move through space using a variety of directions (forward, backward, sideways, diagonally and turning) and pathways (curved, straight and zigzag) at low to increasing higher skill levels.

Explore rhythmic movement (e.g., moving to a steady beat and responding to changes in tempo).

Express personal feelings and experiences through movement and gestures.

Respond to the actions, emotion and mood of a story or poem with movement.

Describe how dance is differentiated from other movement activities (i.e., sports and work-related activities).

Use personal ideas to respond to observations of formal and informal dance performances.

Participate in activities that combine dance with other arts disciplines.

Generate inventive movement suggested by other content areas (e.g., math, language arts, science or social studies).

Participate in movement activities that explore the principles of unity, variety and contrast (mirroring and contrasting movements).

Create a dance with a narrative form (based on the sequence of events of a story or song).

Observe, in a group, formal and informal performances; discuss reactions and reasons for responses.

Identify, through observation and experience, how dance is common to all cultures.

Use a variety of media to experience dances from other cultures.

Participate in informal creative dance presentations