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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Content Standard 2

Understanding choreographic principles, processes, and structures

Achievement Standard

  • Students create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end, both with and without a rhythmic accompaniment; identify each of these parts of the sequence
  • Students improvise, create, and perform dances based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources
  • Students use improvisation to discover and invent movement and to solve movement problems
  • Students create a dance phrase, accurately repeat it, and then vary it (making changes in the time, space, and/or force/energy)
  • Students demonstrate the ability to work effectively alone and with a partner
  • Students demonstrate the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring

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