Dance: Grade K

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Choreographers are inspired by a variety of sources to convey concepts and ideas through movement for artistic expression.

The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic structures serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.

Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.

Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.

Dancers use the body-mind principles and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.

Dance performance is an interaction between performers, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.

Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its compositional structure.

Meaningful interpretations of dance consider artistic intent, style, genre, the elements of dance, technique, structure, and context.

Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.

Personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret and create dance.

Societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts both influence and are influenced by dance.

Respond using movement elements and skills to a series of sensory stimuli (e.g. music/sound, text, objects/props, images, symbols, observed dance through video or live performance).

Explore movement ideas and the different ways to vary basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements by changing at least one of the elements of dance.

Improvise a dance that has a clear beginning and end.

Express an idea, feeling, or image, through improvised movement alone or in relationship to a partner, with or without props (e.g. scarves, bean bags, ribbons).

Identify production elements (e.g. music/sound, props) that support performances. Describe the job of a dancer versus that of a choreographer.

Apply self, peer, and teacher suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences.

Depict a dance movement by drawing a picture, using a symbol, or working with media technology.

Make still and moving body shapes that show lines (e.g. straight, bent, and curved), change levels (e.g. high, middle, low), and vary in size (e.g. large/small). Work with others to make a circle formation and change its dimensions.

Demonstrate contrasts in tempo through movement by matching the tempo of sound stimuli.

Identify and apply different qualities to movements (e.g. loose/tight, light/heavy, shaky/smooth, fast/slow) in response to verbalizations, expressive qualities of music/sound, or other cues.

Demonstrate same side, and cross-body locomotor (e.g. gallop, skip) and non-locomotor movements (e.g. swing, twist, stretch), and spatial relationships (e.g. over, under, around, through).

Move safely in general space by starting and stopping on cue during movement explorations, while maintaining personal space.

Move body parts in relation to other body parts. Repeat and recall movements upon request in preparation for formal and informal sharing.

Dance for others while maintaining awareness of performance expectations (e.g. silence, focus) in both formal and informal settings.

Select and explore the use of a prop as part of a dance.

Identify a movement that repeats in a dance.

Demonstrate and describe observed or performed movements originating from diverse dance genres.

Observe movement and describe it, using simple dance terminology.

Select a movement that was prominent in a dance work or practice and demonstrate that movement. Explain what distinguished the movement from the others.

Recognize and identify an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing a dancework or practice and relate it to a personal experience.

Observe a work of visual art. Describe and express through movement something of interest about the artwork. Ask questions related to the connection between the movements and the artwork.

Describe or demonstrate the movements in a dance that was watched or performed.