Dance: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and works.

Refine and complete artistic works.

Analyze, interpret, and select artistic works for presentation

Develop and refine artistic works for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic works.

Identify and analyze artistic works.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic works.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic works.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make artistic works.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, historical, cultural, and personal context to deepen understanding.

Explore and develop an improvisational or choreographed dance. Analyze the process and the relationship between the stimuli and the movement.

Choreograph an original dance using personal preferences and several dance genres/styles. Compare personal choices to those made by well-known choreographers.

Experiment and take risks to discover personal expression and artistic intent through dance.

Choreograph an original dance expanding personal preferences. Discover and analyze the unexpected solutions explaining why they were effective.

Work individually and collaboratively to design and implement a variety of choreographic devices and dance structures to develop original dances. Analyze how the structure and final composition informs the artistic intent.

Develop an artistic statement that reflects a personal aesthetic for an original dance. Select, demonstrate, and discuss movements that support the artistic statement.

Demonstrate fluency and personal voice in designing and choreographing original dances. Justify choreographic choices and explain how they are used to intensify artistic intent.

Construct an artistic statement that communicates a personal, cultural and artistic perspective.

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating and refining choreographic devices and dance structures based on established artistic criteria, self-reflection, and feedback from others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Compare recognized systems to document a section of a dance using writing, symbols, or media technologies.

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating and refining choreographic devices, dance structures, and artistic criteria using self-reflection and feedback from others. Document choices made in the revision process and justify how the refinements support artistic intent.

Develop and document a dance using recognized systems of dance documentation (for example, writing, a form of notation symbols, or using media technologies).

Develop and expand partner and ensemble skills that enable contrasting level changes through lifts, balances, or other means while maintaining a sense of spatial design and relationship. Dance alone and with others with spatial intention. Use space intentionally during phrases and through transitions between phrases. Establish and break relationships with others as appropriate to the choreography. Execute complex floor and air sequences with others while maintaining relationships through focus and intentionality.

Use syncopation and accent movements related to different tempi. Perform dance studies and compositions that use time and tempo in unpredictable ways. Take rhythmic cues from different aspects of accompaniment. Use internal rhythms and kinetics as phrasing tools. Dance "in the moment." Integrate breath phrasing with metric and kinesthetic phrasing.

Connect energy and dynamics to movements by applying them in and through all parts of the body. Vary energy and dynamics over the length of a phrase and transition smoothly out of the phrase and into the next phrase. Develop total body awareness so that movement phrases demonstrate variances of energy and dynamics.

Modulate and use the broadest range of movement in space for artistic and expressive clarity. Use inward and outward focus to clarify movement and intent. Establish and break relationships with other dancers and audience as appropriate to the dance.

Modulate time factors for artistic interest and expressive acuity. Demonstrate time complexity in phrasing with and without musical accompaniment. Use multiple and complex rhythms (for example, contrapuntal and/or polyrhythmic) at the same time. Work with and against rhythm of accompaniment or sound environments.

Modulate dynamics to clearly express intent while performing dance phrases and choreography. Perform movement sequences expressively using a broad dynamic range and employ dynamic skills for establishing relationships with other dancers and projecting to the audience.

Embody technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to retain and execute complex spatial rhythmic and dynamic sequences to meet performance goals.

Develop a plan for healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life including nutrition and injury prevention. Discuss implementation of the plan and how it supports personal performance goals. Apply anatomical principles and healthful practices to a range of technical dance skills for achieving fluency of movement.

Plan and execute collaborative and independent practice and rehearsal processes with attention to technique and artistry and formed by personal performance goals. Use a variety of strategies to analyze and evaluate performances of self and others (for example, use video recordings of practice to analyze the difference between the way movements look and how they feel to match performance with visual affect). Articulate performance goals and justify reasons for selecting particular practice strategies.

Dance with sensibility toward other dancers, applying body mind principles to technical dance skills and complex choreography when performing solo, partnering, or dancing in ensemble works in a variety of dance genres and styles. Self-evaluate performances and discuss and analyze performance ability with others.

Research healthful and safe practices for dancers and modify personal practice based on findings. Discuss how research informs practice.

Initiate, plan, and direct rehearsals with attention to technical details and fulfilling artistic expression. Use a range of rehearsal strategies to achieve performance excellence. Reflect on personal achievements.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Maintain journal documenting efforts and create a plan for ongoing improvements. Post-performance, accept notes from choreographer and make corrections as needed and apply to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production.

Evaluate and plan possible designs for the production elements of a performance and select and execute the ideas that would intensify, fulfill, and heighten the artistic intent of the dance. Work collaboratively to produce a dance concert on a stage or in an alternative performance venue.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Enhance performance using a broad repertoire of strategies for dynamic projection. Develop a professional portfolio (resume, head shot, etc.) that documents the rehearsal and performance process with fluency in professional dance terminology and production terminology.

Work collaboratively to produce dance concerts in a variety of venues and design and organize the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works in each of the venues.

Analyze recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in dance in context of artistic intent.

Analyze the use of elements of dance in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices within its cultural context to communicate intent. Explain how their differences impact communication and intent within a cultural context. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Analyze dance works from a variety of dance genres and styles. Explain how recurring patterns of movement and their relationships create well-structured and meaningful choreography.

Explain how dance communicates aesthetic and cultural values in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices using genre-specific dance terminology.

Select and compare different dances and discuss their intent and artistic expression. Explain how the relationships among the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context enhance meaning and support intent using genre specific dance terminology.

Discuss, analyze and interpret how the elements of dance, execution of dance movement principles, and context contribute to artistic expression across different genres, styles, or cultural movement practices using genre specific dance terminology.

Using genre-specific dance terminology, compare and contrast two or more dances using evaluative criteria to critique artistic expression. Consider societal values and a range of perspectives.

Define personal artistic preferences to critique dance. Discuss perspectives with peers and justify views. Consider societal and personal values, and a range of artistic expression.

Analyze the perspectives expressed by the choreographer. Synthesize how the choreographer's perspective impacts one's own interpretation.

Collaboratively identify and research a dance related question or problem. Analyze and apply information gathered by creating a group dance that answers the question posed. Discuss how the dance communicates new perspectives or realizations. Compare orally or in writing the process used in choreography to that of other creative, academic, or scientific procedures.

Review original choreography developed over time with respect to its content and context and its relationship to personal perspectives. Reflect on and analyze the variables that contributed to changes in one's personal growth.

Investigate various dance related careers through a variety of research methods and techniques. Select those careers of most interest. Develop and implement a Capstone Project that reflects a possible career choice.

Analyze dances from several genres or styles, historical time periods, and/or world dance forms. Discuss how dance movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria relate to the ideas and perspectives of the peoples from which the dances originate.

Analyze dances from several genres or styles, historical time periods, and/or world dance forms. Discuss how dance movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria relate to the ideas and perspectives of the peoples from which the dances originate. Explain how the analysis has expanded one's dance literacy.