Common Planner
K–12 Standards

Dance: High School: Advanced

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Create

  • 1.

    Creating: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate original ideas that integrate aesthetic principles with personal style. A.D.Cr.01

  • 2.

    Creating: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Document strategies they use regularly to organize their artistic ideas (e.g., keeping a journal). A.D.Cr.02

  • 3.

    Creating: Refine and complete artistic work. Identify movement challenges and the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions. A.D.Cr.03

Perform

  • 4.

    Performing: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Perform with technical accuracy a piece that exhibits strength, balance, endurance, and coordination. A.D.P.04

  • 5. 

    Performing: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Organize and lead the production of a movement work (e.g., running rehearsals for a small group performance).A.D.P.05

  • 6.

    Performing: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Perform a dance work that causes audience reflection by performing technical skills with artistic expression, clarity, musicality, and stylistic nuance. A.D.P.06

Respond

  • 7.

    Responding:  Perceive and analyze artistic work. Identify ways a contemporary movement work pushes boundaries of the genre and discipline. A.D.R.07

  • 8.

    Responding: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Analyze the ways their own cultural and personal perspectives and bias impact how they understand a dance work. A.D.R.08

  • 9.

    Responding: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Identify how bias, culture, and privilege can impact the criteria we use to evaluate dance work.A.D.R.09

Connect

  • 10.

    Connecting: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Explain the development of their aesthetic vision as a dancer and how it is represented in a movement piece. A.D.Co.10

  • 11. 

    Connecting: Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Identify the historical and cultural context that caused the shifting of stylistic elements between dance styles. A.D.Co.11

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12
Where can I read the official document?
2019 Arts Frameworks

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