Dance: Grade 7

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Utilize expanded movement vocabulary and skills to choreograph dance sequences that respond to a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events).

Develop a solution to a movement problem using a variety of movement vocabularies and choosing artistic elements to utilize in the solution.

Develop a dance study or dance communicating clearly an idea, story, or feeling. Engage in the process of choosing among a variety of choreographic devices and dance structures. Discuss the process of making movement choices.

Examine theatrical elements in dances and dance studies from a variety of cultures and styles and discuss choices of elements that enhance the ability to communicate through choreography.

Based on feedback from others and using a framework of choreographic principles, revise a dance or dance study to better communicate an idea, story, or feeling. Define how the changes clarify meaning.

Explore a variety of recognized systems of words, symbols, or media technologies for recording dances or dance studies.

Use expanded movement vocabulary in spatial design. Demonstrate use of floor and air pattern designs, body designs from different dance genres and styles and contrasting shapes and movements.

Vary durational approach in dance phrasing by using timing accents and variations within a phrase to add interest kinesthetically, rhythmically, and visually.

Compare and contrast movement characteristics from a variety of dance genres or styles and dances from a variety of cultures. Discuss specific characteristics and use adverbs and adjectives to describe them. Determine what dancers must do to perform them clearly.

Vary amount of force, flow, muscular tension, and weight in technical dance skills to accommodate physical maturation (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion).

Utilize healthful practices and sound nutrition in dance activities and everyday life. Discuss benefits of practices and how choices enhance performance.

Collaborate with peers to practice and refine dances. Collaboratively develop group performance expectations based on observation and analysis of live or recorded professional dancers.

Document use of performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Analyze and apply to future performances corrections received from director or choreographer. Collaborate with peers in adapting movement to various performance areas.

Correctly use production terminology to explain how production elements change according to different venues, different audiences, and different dance styles and genres and dances from a variety of cultures,

Use correct, genre-specific dance terminology to compare and contrast how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices

Compare, contrast, and discuss patterns of movement and their relationships in dance phrases or a dance.

Compare the meaning of dances from a variety of cultures. Explain how the artistic intent of each dance is achieved through the elements of dance, dance technique, choreographic principles, production elements and context. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Refine artistic criteria using genre-specific dance terminology. Compare artistic intent, content and context of dances from a variety of cultures and examine characteristics of genre, style, or cultural movement practice.

Compare and contrast the movement characteristics or qualities found in a variety of dance genres. Discuss how the movement characteristics or qualities differ from one's own movement characteristics or qualities and how different perspectives are communicated.

Investigate two contrasting topics using a variety of research methods. Identify and organize ideas to create representative movement phrases. Create a dance study exploring the contrasting ideas. Discuss how the research informed the choreographic process and deepened understanding of the topics.

Compare, contrast, and discuss dances performed by people in various communities or cultures. Compare the ideas and perspectives important to each community or culture that are reflected in the dances.