Dance: Grade 1

Creation and Performance

Dance Movement Skills

Responding

Connecting

Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.

Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.

Understand how to use movement skills in dance.

Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.

Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.

Create dance movement using elements of movement (body, time, space, energy).

Compare spontaneous movement (improvisation) and planned movement (choreography).

Construct dance phrases which illustrate beginning, middle, and ending.

Create movement that expresses words, ideas, experiences, and feelings.

Use body and voice control in personal and general space.

Exemplify concentration during dance explorations.

Understand how teacher feedback can be used to improve dance.

Identify body parts, their range of motion, and use of body center.

Execute a variety of body shapes.

Contrast basic locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movements.

Understand use of beat, meter, and duration in dance movement.

Illustrate directions, levels, and pathways in general space.

Explain movement skills and elements observed in dances performed by peers.

Understand how responses to dance can be used to represent feelings and opinions.

Recognize how dance is used in customs and traditions of various cultures.

Understand connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.