Dance: Grade 1

Technique

Choreography

Nonverbal Communication

Critical and Creative Thinking

History and Culture

Healthful Living

Making Connections

The student will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills and apply them while performing dance.

The student will implement choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

The student will use dance as a medium to communicate meaning and/or artistic intent.

The student will demonstrate and apply critical, creative, and analytic thinking in response to dance.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of dance in various cultures and historical periods.

The student will identify and apply healthful practices related to dance.

The student will make connections between dance and other arts disciplines, other content areas, and the world.

Demonstrate, identify, and recall nonlocomotor movements (for example, bend, twist, stretch, swing).

Demonstrate, identify, and recall locomotor movements (for example, walk, run, hop, jump).

Recognize and explore the similarities and/or differences between two or more genres or forms of dance.

Use his or her body to form shapes at low, middle, and high levels.

Safely maintain personal space while moving.

Start, change, and stop movement in response to a rhythm.

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness through exploration of whole body and body parts in isolation.

Continue developing the ability to memorize and replicate brief movement sequences.

Demonstrate and use correct dance vocabulary to describe the actions (for example, skip, gallop, swing, bend) and movement elements (for example, levels, direction) in a brief movement study.

Refine technique through teacher correction.

Use movement exploration to discover, compose, and perform solutions to movement problems based on a variety of stimuli (for example, sensory cues, ideas, moods).

Create and repeat a simple sequence with a beginning, middle, and end; identify each part of the sequence (with or without rhythmic accompaniment).

Identify and demonstrate patterns in choreographic structures.

Work with a partner or in a small group during the choreographic process.

Demonstrate the following partnering skills: copying, leading, following, and mirroring.

Describe and evaluate the choreographic tools used in the dance works of his or her peers.

Translate simple motif description/dance notation into movement.

Identify and demonstrate the difference between dance and other forms of movement (for example, sports maneuvers, everyday gestures).

Respond to dance using dance terminology (for example, movement vocabulary, descriptive language, dance notation, dance elements).

Identify and respond to the accompaniment in a dance (for example, sound, music, spoken text).

Explain the manner in which lighting, costuming, props, and other scenic elements are used in a dance.

Explore dance movements that communicate feelings and ideas.

Demonstrate multiple solutions to a simple movement problem (for example, creating rounded, twisted, stretched and/or bent shapes) on multiple levels and identify his or her favorite solution.

Use correct dance and production terminology to describe the artistic and technical elements of various forms of dance.

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior while watching and responding to live or recorded dance performances.

Perform two or more simple folk dances and/or social dances from different cultures.

Identify the role of dance in different communities and cultures.

Identify past and present notable figures in dance.

Observe and/or perform selected movements from masterworks (with all copyright restrictions observed).

Identify and demonstrate the ways that healthy practices enhance one's ability to dance.

Identify the ways that dance promotes strength, health, physical safety, and reduced risk of injury.

Demonstrate warm-up exercises that prepare the body for dancing.

Identify similarities and differences among the arts.

Respond to a dance by using another art form; explain the connections between the dance and his or her response to it (for example, use a painting to respond to a dance that he or she has seen).

Use movement to explore a concept or idea from another discipline or everyday life (for example, the water cycle).

Identify the similarities and differences between the choreographic process and the process of another discipline (for example, the writing process, scientific inquiry, the creative process across all of the arts).

Identify and describe applications of technology and documentation in the field of dance (for example, technical production, dance notation, research, choreography, reconstruction of historical dance works).

Identify various careers in dance.