Courses of Study

1) Differentiate between basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

2) React to stimuli by creating movement that changes at least one of the elements of dance.

3) Perform an improvisational dance that has a beginning, middle, and end.

4) Illustrate an idea, feeling, or image through improvised movement.

5) Use suggestions from peers or instructors to change movement through structured improvisational activities.

6) Illustrate a dance movement by drawing a picture or using a symbol.

7) Demonstrate movement and stillness using the basic elements of space, including line, shape, levels, and size.

8) Demonstrate tempo changes with movements that match music or sound stimuli.

9) Identify and apply different qualities to movements.

10) Demonstrate body patterning movements and body shapes.

11) Move safely in general space and start/stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space.

12) Move body parts in relation to other body parts and repeat/recall movements upon request.

13) Dance for and with others in designated space.

14) Select a prop to inspire movement.

15) Identify a movement that repeats in a dance.

16) Repeat, recall and respond to observed or performed dance movements.

17) Observe movement and describe it using simple dance terminology.

18) Select and demonstrate a movement in a dance and explain why it was chosen.

19) Identify an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance and relate it to a personal experience.

20) Express something of interest within a work of art (visual, music, theatre, etc.) through movement.

21) Identify the elements of dance in movement.

1) Respond with movement to a variety of prompts.

2) Experiment with changing a movement, utilizing the elements of dance.

3) Describe movement choices within a dance that create a beginning, middle, and end.

4) Select movements that express an idea or emotion or follow a musical phrase.

5) Respond to feedback from an improvisation or dance phrase using multiple movement choices.

6) Record several different types of movements by drawing a picture or using a symbol.

7) Create movement and stillness using changing elements of space.

8) Demonstrate the element of time by moving to quick, moderate, or slow music or sound.

9) Identify and demonstrate movement qualities.

10) Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movement concentrating on direction.

11) Identify and explore personal space and general space within movement.

12) Modify movements through spatial arrangements.

13) Perform a dance for others in a space where audience and performers occupy different areas.

14) Utilize a variety of props to enhance a dance.

15) Identify a movement or movement phrase that repeats to make a pattern within a dance.

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

17) Use dance terminology to describe an observed movement and explain how the movement captures a specific idea.

19) Identify the movements in a dance that communicate an experience and relate the movements to a familiar experience.

18) Select and demonstrate several movements in a dance and explain why they were chosen.

20) Identify ideas for dance movements that demonstrate the big ideas of an illustrated story.

21) Observe and perform a dance from a familiar culture that utilizes multiple elements of dance.

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.

1) Improvise movements with a variety of self-identified prompts.

2) Select and demonstrate a movement solution for a given movement problem.

3) Recognize choreographic devices to create simple movement patterns.

4) Create a dance phrase that communicates an idea or feeling and discuss the effect of the movement choices.

5) Support choices for revisions based on feedback to improve a short dance study.

6) Illustrate directions or spatial pathways in a dance phrase by drawing a picture map or using a symbol.

7) Perform movement sequences in and through space with intention and focus on positive and negative space.

8) Perform improvised movements with or against tempos and rhythms in music or sound.

9) Change the degree of energy used in movement to heighten the effect of intent.

10) Replicate body shapes, movements, qualities, and movement patterns in a dance sequence with awareness of body alignment.

11) Change levels, directions, and pathway designs safely in a dance phrase while coordinating with a partner or other dancers.

12) Apply constructive instructor or peer feedback to improve dance skills in a learned group dance.

13) Use stage directions to identify main areas of a performance space.

14) Expand the impact of dance by adding production elements.

15) Identify patterns of movement that enhance movement phrasing.

16) Compare and contrast a variety of dance genres.

17) Identify specific context cues from movement that relate to the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.

18) Use basic dance terminology to identify the qualities of movement observed or performed in a specific genre, style, or cultural movement practice.

19) Compare the relationships expressed in a dance to other relationships.

20) Present research about a key aspect of a dance in oral, written, or movement form.

21) Explain how movements in a dance from a culture, society, or community communicate its characteristics and values.

1) Identify ideas for choreography generated from a variety of prompts and source materials.

2) Find a solution to a movement problem by manipulating the elements of dance.

3) Expand movement possibilities by utilizing choreographic devices.

4) Create a dance study that expresses and communicates a main idea and discuss the reasons for the movement choices.

5) Revise movement based on peer feedback and self-reflection to improve communication of artistic intent in a short dance study.

6) Illustrate the relationship between two or more dancers in a dance phrase by drawing a picture or using symbols.

7) Make static and dynamic shapes using a focus on positive and negative space.

8) Recognize and respond to changes in time as they occur in dance and music.

9) Analyze and describe the qualities of movement and phrases created by the use of energy and dynamic changes.

10) Demonstrate fundamental dance skills and movement qualities when replicating and recalling directed patterns and sequences of movements.

11) Explain effective ways to extend movement range, increase body strength, and develop endurance.

12) Coordinate performance timing with other dancers by utilizing cues from each other and responding to production elements.

13) Plan how to establish a formal performance space from an informal setting.

14) Identify, explore, and select production elements that heighten and intensify the artistic intent of a dance.

15) Identify patterns of movement that illustrate style or intent in dance works.

16) Explain how dance styles differ within a genre or within a cultural movement practice.

17) Explain how specific context cues from movement relate to the main idea of the dance, using basic dance terminology.

18) Explain why movement choices from dances of specific genres, styles, or cultures are appropriate in a specific dance.

19) Relate the main idea or content in a dance to other experiences and explain how the main idea of a dance is similar to or different from one's own experiences, relationships, ideas, or perspectives.

20) Select key aspects about a topic and choreograph movements that communicate the information.

21) Explain how and why a dance originates from a culture, society, historical period, or community.

1) Develop content for choreography using ideas generated from a variety of prompts.

2) Create a solution to multiple movement problems to develop content for choreography by using the elements of dance.

3) Expand choreographic possibilities by utilizing multiple choreographic devices.

4) Select a codified movement vocabulary or preferred dance style to develop a dance study to communicate a main idea.

5) Explain artistic choices and refinement made through feedback to develop the artistic intent of a short dance study.

6) Illustrate changes in a dance sequence through media technology, written symbols, or words.

7) Integrate static and dynamic shapes with floor and air pathways into dance phrases.

8) Perform movement phrases that show the ability to respond to changes in time generated from various rhythms.

9) Explore bound and free-flowing movement motivated from both core initiation (torso) and peripheral initiation (distal) while analyzing the relationship between initiation and energy.

10) Demonstrate a series of dance phrases using fundamental dance skills.

11) Employ safe practices before, during, and after dancing.

12) Develop performance goals through collaboration with peer ensemble members to repeat sequences, synchronize actions, and refine spatial relationships in order to improve performance qualities.

13) Modify a dance for an alternate performance venue by altering space and movement.

14) Manipulate a variety of production elements to heighten the artistic intent and audience experience.

15) Describe and demonstrate recurring patterns of movement and their relationship in a dance.

16) Compare and contrast the qualities of style used in a dance from one's own personal cultural practice to a style from a different cultural movement practice.

17) Explain how the movements in a dance communicate the main idea of a dance using basic dance terminology.

18) Define qualities of dance that make a dance artistic and meaningful and relate them to the elements of dance in genres, styles, or cultural movement practices.

19) Compare emotions and ideas evoked by two dances with contrasting themes and describe how the themes and movements relate to points of view and experiences.

20) Compare research on how other art forms have expressed a topic or concept, and how the topic or concept might be expressed through dance.

21) Describe how the movement qualities of a dance from a specific genre, style, or culture reflect the ideas and perspectives from which the dance originated.

1) Compare a variety of prompts and make selections to expand movement vocabulary and artistic expression.

2) Identify and practice various movement vocabularies designed to transfer ideas into choreography.

3) Develop a dance study that supports artistic intent through exploration of choreographic devices and explain the goal or purpose of the dance.

4) Identify artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning and evaluate why some movements are more effective than others.

5) Use collaboratively-developed artistic criteria to revise dance compositions, and explain reasons for revisions and how choices were made related to artistic intent.

6) Illustrate a dance sequence through two different mediums, including writing, symbols, or a form of media technology.

7) Refine partner and ensemble skills in spatial design and the ability to judge distance.

8) Vary the timing and dynamics of a dance phrase by using sudden and sustained movements with accented and unaccented beats.

9) Use energy for initiation and dynamic expression while distinguishing between bound and free-flowing movement.

10) Demonstrate technical dance skills to change direction, levels, body facing, pathways, elevation and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions.

11) Apply basic anatomical knowledge and spatial awareness to prepare for warm-ups and dancing.

12) Solve movement problems within a dance collaboratively by testing options and identifying what works and does not work.

13) Use performance etiquette to recognize performance needs, adapt movement to performance areas, and accept notes from choreographer, making post-performance corrections as needed.

14) Use production terminology to compare and contrast possible production elements that would intensify and heighten artistic intent of the work, and explain reasons for the decisions.

15) Determine meaning or artistic intent from the patterns of movement in a dance work.

16) Use genre-specific terminology to explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of dance genres, styles, or cultural movement practices.

17) Explain how the artistic expression of a dance communicates the intent through elements of dance, technique, and context.

18) Compare artistic intent, content, and context from dances to examine the characteristics of genre, style, or cultural movement practices.

19) Describe differences and similarities of movement qualities observed in specific genre.

20) Use a variety of resources to research a social topic of great interest and use the information to create a dance study that expresses a specific point of view on the topic.

21) Demonstrate how the movement qualities of a dance communicate its cultural, historical, and/or community purpose or meaning.

1) Develop choreography using a variety of prompts through relating similar or contrasting ideas.

2) Demonstrate various codified movement vocabularies to express an artistic intent in choreography and explain the choices made using genre-specific dance terminology.

3) Create a dance study with a clear artistic intent using a variety of choreographic devices, and state the reasons for movement and device choices.

4) Develop artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning and justify how the artistic criteria serve to communicate the meaning of the dance.

5) Apply feedback and self-reflection to revise a dance and explain how the changes clarify artistic intent.

6) Research a recognized system used to document a dance sequence by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

7) Incorporate body design from different dance genres and styles by strengthening knowledge of movement vocabulary of floor and air pattern designs.

8) Use timing, accents, and variations within a phrase to vary the durational approach in dance phrasing by adding interest kinesthetically, rhythmically, or visually.

9) Use the dance element of energy to describe specific movements from a variety of genres or styles, and determine what dancers must do to perform them clearly.

10) Identify healthful practices and sound nutrition in dance activities and everyday life, and identify how personal choices enhance performance.

11) Interpret knowledge of human anatomy to understand physical developmental stages in technical skills.

12) Develop group performance expectations through observations and analyses by collaborating with peers to practice and refine dances.

13) Maintain journal documenting changes and adaptations to movements in performance areas and apply feedback and corrections to future performances.

14) Use production terminology to explain how production elements would be handled differently in unique dance performance settings and venues.

15) Compare and contrast recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in dance.

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

17) Explain how the artistic expression of various dances is achieved through the elements of dance technique, context, and production elements.

18) Develop artistic criteria to critique a dance by discussing the characteristics and artistic intent from a genre, style, or cultural movement practice.

19) Compare and contrast the movement characteristics and qualities found in a variety of dance genres to personal unique movement characteristics and qualities.

20) Research a historical dance genre or style and use knowledge gained to create a movement study that evokes the genre or style, then share the study with peers as part of a lecture demonstration that tells the story of the historical journey of the chosen genre or style.

21) Compare and contrast dances performed in various cultures, and formulate through research personal reasons why similarities and differences developed in relation to the perspective of each social group.

1) Make selections from a variety of prompts to expand movement vocabulary and artistic expression.

2) Select personal movement preferences to express an artistic intent in choreography and justify the choices made using genre-specific dance terminology.

3) Collaborate to select and apply a variety of choreographic devices to create an original dance study and document the process.

4) Apply artistic criteria to clarify or intensify artistic intent to a choreographed dance that communicates personal or cultural meaning.

5) Apply feedback and self-reflection to revise a collaboratively choreographed dance and explain how the changes clarify artistic intent.

6) Experiment with and apply a variety of recognized systems to document a section of a dance by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

7) Sculpt the body in space and design body shapes in relation to other dancers, objects, and environment, using kinetic sense during complex floor and air patterns.

8) Analyze and select metric, kinetic, or breathe phrasing and apply appropriately to dance phrases.

9) Apply energy and dynamics to enhance technique and engage audiences.

10) Utilize technical dance skills to replicate, recall, and execute spatial designs and musical or rhythmical dance phrases.

11) Evaluate personal healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life, including nutrition and injury prevention.

12) Identify personal performance and practice goals and document improvement over time.

13) Demonstrate and document leadership qualities when preparing for a performance.

14) Collaboratively design and execute production elements that will intensify and heighten the artistic intent of a dance performed on stage, in a different venue, or for a different audience.

15) Describe and demonstrate recurring patterns of movement and their relationship in dance in the context of artistic intent.

16) Use genre-specific dance terminology to explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent.

17) Observe a dance and explain how artistic expression is achieved through relationships among the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context, and provide evidence to support your interpretation using genre-specific dance terminology.

18) Determine the effectiveness of choreography by evaluating artistic criteria.

19) Explain how personal experience and perspective impact interpretation of choreography.

20) Research two contrasting topics and create a dance study exploring the contrasting ideas.

21) Analyze and discuss how similarities and differences from a variety of dances from cultures, societies, historical periods or communities reveal the ideas and perspectives of the people.

1) Experiment using a variety of prompts as inspiration to create an improvisation, movement study, or choreographed dance, and explain the relationships between the prompts and movement choices.

1) Synthesize ideas from a variety of prompts to create choreography using codified and original movement.

1) Explore, discover, and establish a personal voice to communicate intent in choreography.

2) Identify personal movement preferences, strengths, and weaknesses in order to build self-awareness as a choreographer.

2) Develop personal movement preferences while choreographing within a variety of movement styles and genres.

2) Experiment beyond personal movement preferences and strengths while choreographing to expand personal movement vocabulary.

3) Apply choreographic devices and dance structures to the design of choreography in order to clarify artistic intent, while working independently and collaboratively with others.

3) Analyze and explain how the implementation of choreographic devices and specific dance structures in the design of an original dance composition impact artistic intent.

3) Demonstrate fluency and personal voice utilizing choreographic devices and structures while justifying choices, and explain how they are used to intensify artistic intent.

4) Write an artistic statement that explains how and why an original composition was choreographed, including a discussion of the use of dance elements, choreographic devices, and dance structures.

4) Develop an artistic statement that explains how and why an original composition was choreographed, reflecting on personal, cultural, and artistic perspective.

4) Finalize an artistic statement that communicates how and why personal, cultural, and artistic perspectives influence your choreographic process.

5) Manipulate dance elements, choreographic devices, and dance structures in an original dance, incorporating feedback from others to clarify artistic intent.

5) Create multiple revisions to an original dance, based on self-reflection and feedback from instructors or peers.

5) Determine a personal preference for a final revision of an original dance by using a process of reviewing, evaluating, revising, and refining choreography, after considering self-reflection and feedback from others.

6) Compare and contrast recognized systems to document a dance using writing, symbols, or media technology.

6) Develop a strategy to document choreography for a specific need.

6) Create a portfolio that includes comprehensive documentation of original choreography and personal performance, including one or more systems and/or technologies that record movement and choreography.

7) Perform a broad range of spatial elements with clarity of design and intent.

7) Create and maintain a sense of spatial design in a dance while performing alone and with others, by accurately and intentionally replicating the choreography.

7) Manipulate, adapt, and adjust to spatial differences between performers while executing air and floor pathways so that the intended spatial design in the choreography is preserved.

8) Demonstrate musicality in performed movement through the use of kinesthetic phrasing as appropriate to choreography and artistic intent.

8) Experiment with unpredictable tempi and rhythms within choreographic parameters to enhance performance quality and artistic intent.

8) Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of time and phrasing in choreography by performing complex meters, tempi, and rhythms with, without, and against music or sound accompaniment.

9) Demonstrate a broad range of energy and dynamics in isolated and full-body movements to clarify artistic intent while performing.

9) Use intentional variations in energy and dynamics to clarify movement phrasing.

9) Employ both extreme and subtle differences in energy and dynamics to express complex ideas, qualities, emotions, and relationships that clarify artistic intent.

10) Utilize correct alignment while performing technical dance skills to improve efficiency, safety, and clarity of movement in choreography.

10) Apply kinesthetic awareness of other dancers within a group while executing complex spatial, rhythmic, and dynamic sequences.

10) Perform with kinesthetic awareness during complex solo or ensemble work while maintaining proper technique in a specific genre, and self-evaluate performance.

11) Research and develop a plan for healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life, including nutrition and injury prevention.

11) Implement a plan that applies principles of anatomy, nutrition, body conditioning, and injury prevention to a range of technical dance skills for achieving fluency of movement.

11) Modify personal practice based on findings from research on principles of anatomy, nutrition, body conditioning, and injury prevention in order to achieve fluency of movement.

12) Implement a rehearsal plan through collaboration with peers using a variety of strategies to analyze and evaluate the performance goal.

12) Plan and execute collaborative and independent rehearsal processes with attention to technique and artistry informed by personal performance goals.

12) Implement a range of rehearsal strategies to initiate, plan, and direct rehearsals that obtain the technical skills and artistic expression necessary to achieve performance excellence.

13) Apply rules of performance etiquette during class/ rehearsal and document strengths and weaknesses to enhance the performance process.

13) Model and document leadership qualities during the performance and rehearsal process while evaluating methods and strategies to enhance performance, using dance and production terminology.

13) Collect evidence that supports personal excellence in leadership qualities and advanced performance skills from multiple individuals with professional perspectives to be included in a professional portfolio indicating college and career readiness.

14) Evaluate possible designs for the production elements of a performance and select and execute the ideas that would enhance the artistic intent of the dances.

14) Produce a dance concert on a stage or in an alternative performance venue and plan the production elements that fulfill the artistic intent of the dance performance.

14) Design and organize production elements for dance concerts to be performed in a variety of venues by changing production elements for each venue as necessary to clarify artistic intent.

15) Relate recurring patterns of movement to their relationship in dance in the context of artistic intent.

15) Analyze choreography and provide examples of recurring patterns of movement and relationships that create structure and generate meaning in a dance.

15) Explain how structure and meaning in choreography are developed through intentional movement and relationships in a variety of dance genres and styles.

16) Analyze the use of elements of dance in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent.

16) Analyze and compare the use of movement patterns and their relationships within a dance in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices, using genre-specific terminology.

16) Differentiate the way dance communicates aesthetics and cultural values within a variety of genres, styles, or culture movement practices, using specific dance terminology.

17) Compare and discuss how the elements of dance, execution of dance movement principles, and context contribute to artistic expression.

17) Interpret how the relationships of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context enhance meaning and support choreographic intent, using genre-specific terminology.

17) Analyze and interpret dance elements, movement principles, and context of choreography across a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices in order to interpret meaning and artistic expression.

18) Compare and contrast two or more dances using evaluative criteria to critique artistic expression.

18) Critique the artistic expression of a dance through the use of collaboratively-developed evaluative criteria.

18) Support the validity of multiple perspectives in a dance critique, using personal preferences, peer perspectives, and an understanding of societal and cultural values as justification.

19) Explain how the perspectives expressed by a choreographer may impact one's own interpretation.

19) Evaluate a dance that is related to content learned in other subjects and research its context, synthesizing information learned and sharing new ideas about its impact on one's perspective.

19) Revise choreography over time by using a sustained practice of analysis of dance elements, personal preferences, content, context, and feedback to influence changes that show evidence of personal growth.

20) Research a question or problem that can be addressed through movement and apply information gathered by creating a group dance that answers the question posed.

20) Investigate a topic and collaboratively create a dance while transferring the learning from this project to other learning situations.

20) Create a capstone project that is influenced by research and explores a variety of techniques, new perspectives, or dance careers to impact original work.

21) Explain how the habits, ideas, and perspectives from cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities impact the artistic elements in dance.

21) Analyze how cultural dance movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria relate to the ideas and perspectives of the people from which the dances originate and explain how this analysis expands one's dance literacy.

21) Expand personal dance literacy by developing an understanding of how movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria are influenced by the peoples from which dance originates.