Dance: High School: Foundations

Create

  • 1.

    Creating:  Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Create dance that reflects characteristics of different artistic movements (e.g., Cubism, Romanticism, and Avant-garde). F.D.Cr.01

  • 2.

    Creating: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Use one type of dance notation to document an original dance. F.D.Cr.02

  • 3.

    Creating:  Refine and complete artistic work. Use costumes and props to refine a dance to better express, evoke, or communicate with an audience. F.D.Cr.03

Perform

  • 4.

    Performing: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Identify historical sources that explain movement conventions. F.D.P.04

  • 5.

    Performing: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Assess personal strengths and weaknesses in improvisation, strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, and coordination and implement plans to improve.F.D.P.05

  • 6.

    Performing: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Describe how decisions about a performance are connected to what the student wants to express, evoke, or communicate. F.D.P.06

Respond

  • 7.

    Responding: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Analyze the style of a choreographer and how that style manifests in a given movement work. F.D.R.07

  • 8.

    Responding: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Identify elements from a dance work that connect it to a specific genre or style. F.D.R.08

  • 9.

    Responding: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Compare and contrast different rubrics or criteria for evaluating dance work. F.D.R.09

Connect

  • 10.

    Connecting:  Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe what has influenced changes in one’s artistic style and preferences in dance.  F.D.Co.10

  • 11.

    Connecting:  Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Identify the connections between historical and cultural context and defining stylistic elements of dance movements F.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 Curriculum Frameworks

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