Dance: Grade 5

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 short dances that use simple choreographic forms and structures (musical, literary, or visual), and that vary the use of dance elements.

Use collaborative skills to improvise and create dance.

Create short dances that communicate abstract ideas.

Generate strategies for problem solving in dance.

Execute control of body, voice, and focus necessary for effective participation in individual and group settings in dance.

Use kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus to enhance the performance of dance sequences.

Monitor personal goals to improve performance quality in dance.

Use muscular strength, flexibility, stamina, and coordination in the development of beginning dance technique.

Exemplify how to maintain a sense of body shape while moving and in stillness.

Integrate locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movement and stillness into dance sequences through use of transitions.

Illustrate phrasing in a selected piece of music using dance movement.

Use a variety of spatial designs and relationships with clarity and intent while dancing.

Analyze the relationship between dance elements when observing dance.

Illustrate the roles and responsibilities of the viewer in interpreting dances.

Understand how dance has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of the United States.

Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.