Content Standard

Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance

Achievement Standard

• Students demonstrate the following movement skills and explain the underlying principles: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery
• Students accurately identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions, and patterns for dance from two different styles or traditions (e.g., ballet, square, Ghanasian, Middle Eastern, modern)
• Students accurately transfer a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic
• Students accurately transfer a rhythmic pattern from the aural to the kinesthetic
• Students identify and clearly demonstrate a range of dynamics / movement qualities
• Students demonstrate increasing kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills
• Students demonstrate accurate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences
• Students describe the action and movement elements observed in a dance, using appropriate movement/dance vocabulary

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Resources that connect to this Standard:

• Moccasins Are Made for Dancing
• Discovering Russian Folk Dance
• Swing Your Partner: The Basics of Square Dancing
• Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography
• Grades 5-8 National Arts Content and Achievement Standards
• Dance Content and Achievement Standards: K-12
• Grades 5-8 Full-Text Arts Standards
• The Language of Ballet
• Elements of Ballet
• Interpreting Mythology Through Dance