Eighth Grade

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

8.CN.1 Relate dance ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

8.CN.2 Explore advancements in the field of dance.

8.CR.1 Create original dance movements and works that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, or images, independently and collaboratively.

8.CR.2 Adapt original dance ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

8.PR.1 Perform dance works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

8.PR.2 Develop dance presentations.

8.RE.1 Analyze dance from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

8.RE.2 Evaluate dance works using content-specific vocabulary.

Identify the influence of North Carolinian styles and dancers on the broader dance community.

Explain how dance skills and processes can be applied to solve a variety of problems in academic study and daily life.

Demonstrate effective strategies to increase anatomical awareness and limit psychological stressors encountered by dancers.

Explain how creativity in dance relates to post-secondary, college, and career readiness.

Compare effective uses of technology in enhancing dance performances.

Improvise movement using multiple dance elements to fulfill a movement score.

Organize dance phrases into simple dances using a variety of choreographic forms.

Reconstruct a given dance sequence documented in pictures, symbols, writing, or media technology.

Adapt a dance phrase by changing one dance element.

Explain how to share works of dance, including musical accompaniments, legally and ethically in both physical and digital spaces.

Integrate self-assessment, instructor, and peer feedback in the process of refining dance performance.

Execute technical skills with precision using muscular strength, alignment, flexibility, stamina, and coordination.

Refine clarity of movement and movement qualities.

Refine a relevant theme, topic, or music for a group performance.

Demonstrate safe and respectful behaviors for various cultural contexts as a dance participant, performer, and observer.

Design a production element that would strengthen the artistic intent of a dance performed in various situations, using production terminology.

Explain how the elements of dance and choreographic forms are used in various genres of dance.

Compare meanings interpreted from dance with the original artistic intent inferred from contextual information.

Explain how personal preferences for dance are influenced by experience, culture, and media.

Provide guidance for the improvement of a dance performance using established criteria.