ARTSEDGE: 9-12 Dance

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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).

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Dance

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Content Standard 3

Understanding dance as a way to create and communicate meaning

Achievement Standard

Proficient:

Students formulate and answer questions about how movement choices communicate abstract ideas in dance
Students demonstrate understanding of how personal experience influences the interpretation of a dance
Students create a dance that effectively communicates a contemporary social theme

Advanced:

Students examine ways that a dance creates and conveys meaning by considering the dance from a variety of perspectives
Students compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two of their own choreographic works

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