Dance: Grade 5

Perceiving/Knowing

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Interpret various dances and support their interpretations with specific observations using appropriate dance vocabulary.

Observe, identify and describe basic choreographic elements.

Observe selected dances and identify creative problem-solving strategies using specific dance concepts and vocabulary.

Further develop kinesthetic awareness by attending to and describing a range of somatic ideas.

Recognize and describe features of dance forms in the United States and how they represent their historical and cultural contexts.

Demonstrate strength, flexibility and movement patterning when performing movement sequences with clarity, focus and kinesthetic awareness.

Demonstrate safe practices for dance, including warm-up, stretching, partnering and appropriate use of shared spaces in increasingly complex movement situations.

Learn and demonstrate dances from various cultures represented in the United States, past and present.

Create, refine and perform dances based on concepts and issues drawn from historical and contemporary times.

Use formal and informal compositional structures in choreography and improvisation.

Demonstrate initiative when working alone, with partners and in small groups to improvise and solve movement problems.

Discuss personal reactions to dances viewed or performed and consider how these are informed by cultural and social influences.

Identify ways that the same dance movement can be described differently, based on point of view.

Reflect on how attention to physical sensations can impact movement experiences and performance.

Use forms of writing (e.g., note-taking, graphic organizers, motif notation) to record choices made in the dance-making process.

Reflect on, evaluate and refine choreographic, rehearsal and performance processes based on established criteria.