Content Standard

Demonstrating and understanding dance in various cultures and historical periods

Achievement Standard

• Students competently perform folk and/or classical dances from various cultures; describe similarities and differences in steps and movement styles
• Students competently perform folk, social, and/or theatrical dances from a broad spectrum of twentieth-century America
• Students learn from resources in their own community (such as people, books, videas) a folk dance of a different culture or a social dance of a different time period and the cultural/historical context of that dance, effectively sharing the dance and its context with their peers
• Students accurately describe the role of dance in at least two different cultures or time periods

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Resources that connect to this Standard:

• Swing Your Partner: The Basics of Square Dancing
• 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