Sixth Grade

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

6.CN.1 Relate dance ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

6.CN.2 Explore advancements in the field of dance.

6.CR.1 Create original dance movements and works that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, or images, independently and collaboratively.

6.CR.2 Adapt original dance ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

6.PR.1 Perform dance works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

6.PR.2 Develop dance presentations.

6.RE.1 Analyze dance from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

6.RE.2 Evaluate dance works using content-specific vocabulary.

Explain how dance expresses and reflects the values of civilizations around the world.

Explain how skills and concepts from other content areas inform the development of ideas in dance.

Name anatomical alignment concerns and psychological stressors encountered by dancers.

Identify the dance skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to success in dance-related careers.

Identify the uses of digital media in a variety of dance performances.

Improvise movement using multiple dance elements in response to musical or verbal cues.

Create a short dance or dance sequence using abstracted movement that has a beginning, middle, and end.

Plan an original dance sequence using pictures or symbols, writing, or media technology.

Adapt a dance phrase by changing the tempo of movement.

Describe how fair use, copyright, public domain, open source, and creative commons affect the ability of dancers to produce dance, including musical accompaniment.

Analyze how self-assessment, instructor feedback, and peer feedback is used to refine dance performance.

Demonstrate technical skills with muscular strength, alignment, flexibility, stamina, and coordination.

Demonstrate clarity of movement and movement qualities with guidance.

Compare themes, topics, or music choices for a group performance.

Demonstrate safe and respectful behaviors for various cultural contexts as a dance class participant, performer, and observer with guidance.

Identify a variety of production elements in various situations, using production terminology.

Identify the elements of dance observed in various genres of dance.

Identify multiple meanings for choreographic works, citing evidence.

Explain how personal preferences for dance develop with increased exposure.

Identify strengths and areas for improvement based on established criteria when viewing dance performance and choreography.