Courses of Study

1) Respond to movement with a variety of prompts and suggest additional sources for movement ideas.

2) Connect a variety of moments while manipulating the elements of dance through locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

3) Create a dance phrase with a main idea that has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

4) Select movements that express an idea or emotion or follow a musical phrase and explain reasons for movement choices.

5) Improvise to create short memorized dance phrases using material discovered through guided improvisation and guided feedback.

6) Record body shapes from several different types of movement by drawing a picture or using a symbol.

7) Demonstrate clear directional movement that changes body shape, facings, or pathway in space.

8) Demonstrate movement on the accented beat in duple and triple meter.

9) Select specific adverbs and adjectives and apply them to movements.

10) Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements that alternate between personal space and general space.

11) Demonstrate safe movement in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space.

12) Self-adjust and modify movements with an awareness of personal space and general space.

13) Perform a dance in a space where the audience and performers occupy different areas while focusing on projecting to the audience.

14) Utilize limited production elements.

15) Recognize dance movements that develop a pattern.

16) Observe or perform dance movements from a specific genre or culture and describe or demonstrate the movements.

17) Use context cues from movement to identify meaning and intent in a dance, using simple dance terminology.

18) Select and demonstrate several movements in a dance and explain why the movements work to convey a theme or concept.

19) Describe a dance that expresses personal meaning and explain how certain movements express this personal meaning.

20) Respond with movements to an inquiry-based set of questions based on an observed dance work.

21) Observe and perform a dance from a culture and relate the movement to the people or environment from which the dance was created and performed.