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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 4
Applying and demonstrating critical and creative thinking skills in dance
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students create a dance and revise it over time, articulating the reasons for their artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions
- Students establish a set of aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating their own work and that of others
- Students formulate and answer their own aesthetic questions (such as, What is it that makes a particular dance that dance? How much can one change that dance before it becomes a different dance?)
Advanced:
- Students discuss how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers
- Students analyze the style of a choreographer or cultural form; then create a dance in that style (choreographers that could be analyzed include George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey, Laura Dean; cultural forms include bharata natyam, classical ballet)
- Students analyze issues of ethnicity, gender, social/economic class, age and/or physical condition in relation to dance
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