Content Standard

Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance

Achievement Standard

• Students demonstrate appropriate skeletal alignment, body-part articulation, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movements
• Students identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from two different dance styles/traditions
• Students demonstrate rhythmic acuity
• Students create and perform combinations and variations in a broad dynamic range
• Students demonstrate projection while performing dance skills
• Students demonstrate the ability to remember extended movement sequences

Advanced:

• Students demonstrate a high level of consistency and reliability in performing technical skills
• Students perform technical skills with artistic expression, demonstrating clarity, musicality, and stylistic nuance
• Students refine technique through self-evaluation and correction

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Resources that connect to this Standard:

• Dance Content and Achievement Standards: K-12
• Grades 9-12 Full-Text Arts Standards
• Grades 9-12 National Arts Content and Achievement Standards
• Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom