Dance: Grade 6

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.

Understand the role of improvisation in choreography.

Create short dances that have a beginning, middle, and end, and that vary the use of the dance elements.

Use abstracted movement to create dance phrases that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, or images.

Use collaborative and cooperative skills to contribute constructively to the creation of dance.

Use safe and respectful behaviors as a dance class participant.

Use concentration and focus while dancing.

Understand how self-assessment, teacher feedback, and peer feedback can be used to refine dance performance.

Understand the purpose of beginning dance technique in terms of developing muscular strength, alignment, flexibility, stamina, and coordination.

Compare qualities within the elements of time, space, weight, and flow in dance.

Execute technical skills from a variety of dance forms.

Analyze the components of time in dance.

Analyze the relationship between dance elements when observing dance.

Interpret the meanings of dances created by peers and others.

Understand dance in relationship to the geography, history, and culture of world civilizations and societies from the beginning of human society to the emergence of the First Global Age (1450).

Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Understand how dance promotes health and physical well-being.

Identify the various roles a person may play when putting together and presenting a dance production.