Content Standard

Applying and demonstrating critical and creative thinking skills in dance

Achievement Standard

• Students create a movement problem and demonstrate multiple solutions; choose the most interesting solutions and discuss the reasons for their choice
• Students demonstrate appropriate audience behavior in watching dance performances; discuss their opinions about the dances with their peers in a supportive and constructive way
• Students compare and contrast two dance compositions in terms of space (such as shape and pathways), time (such as rhythm and tempo), and force/energy (movement qualities)
• Students identify possible aesthetic criteria for evaluating dance (such as skill of performers, originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast)

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Resources that connect to this Standard:

• Grades 5-8 National Arts Content and Achievement Standards
• Dance Content and Achievement Standards: K-12
• Discovering Russian Folk Dance
• Grades 5-8 Full-Text Arts Standards
• Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography