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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 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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