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Targeted Standards:
National Standards for Arts Education:
The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be
able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium
of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered
by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).
View the full text of the standards.
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Content Standard 1
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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