Dance: Grade 7

Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education - Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

Historical, Cultural, and Social Context: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dance as an essential aspect of history and human experience.

Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.

Aesthetics and Criticism: Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments in dance.

Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance

Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis

Compare the contexts of dances from a variety of cultures

Explain how dance reflects and influences history, society, and personal experience

Explain commonalties of content and process among the arts, humanities, and sciences

Develop the ability to improvise dance

Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning

Develop the ability to select and combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning

Apply performance competencies in dance

Identify, analyze, and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance

Interpret the meaning of a variety of dance studies and compare how the elements of dance are used to communicate meaning

Incorporate the elements of dance to develop dance studies that interpret abstract ideas and concepts

Demonstrate physical attributes, such as alignment, placement, flexibility, endurance, balance, articulation, and timing, that contribute to technical proficiency in performance

Perform consistently a variety of dance skills with technical proficiency

Perform accurately and describe characteristics of dances from a minimum of three dance genres representative of world cultures

Reproduce memorized dances accurately

Explain healthful physical behaviors for dancers

Compare the physical attributes required by dances representative of diverse genres and world cultures using the language of dance

Describe and perform dance skills and movement sequences that improve technical proficiency

Research, perform, and describe the form and content of traditional dances from a variety of cultures

Explain how societies in a variety of cultures view dance

Explain how various cultures and people are connected through dance experiences

Explain societal events that influenced the development of dance forms, styles, and genres

Describe ways dance is used for individual, cultural, and social expression today

Describe characteristics and origins of various forms, styles, and dance genres within and among a variety of cultures

Identify themes, ideas, and issues common to dance, other art forms, the humanities, and sciences

Describe ways in which the knowledge, skills, and processes of other content areas are related to those of dance

Create and explain dance studies that demonstrate relationships between dance and other content areas

Improvise dance studies in response to a variety of sensory and motivational stimuli

Communicate literal and non-literal ideas using improvisation

Create dances individually and with a partner using the improvisational process

Create dance studies to convey ideas or themes using selected choreographic forms

Organize dance studies by combining elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms

Combine and modify the elements of dance to convey ideas and concepts

Combine aesthetic principles to modify the performance of movement ideas

Demonstrate consistent application of performance competencies, such as of awareness of space, physical discipline, concentration, and projection in rehearsals and dance performances

Interpret dance performances using the elements of dance, aesthetic principles, choreographic forms, and performance competencies as criteria to determine meaning or intent

Defend the selection of criteria used to critique personal performances, improvised and choreographed, and the performances of others

Explain conventions of audience etiquette and how they relate to dance performances in a variety of cultures and settings

Explain how performance competencies, the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles affect audience response.

Explain the creative process and the ways in which artistic choices affect how personal performances, improvisations, and choreography evolve over time