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K–12 Standards

Dance: High School: Proficient

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Create

  • 1.

     Creating: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Consistently apply research to support development of artistic ideas (e.g., research different styles of Chinese fans to support designing a prop). P.D.Cr.01

  • 2.

    Creating: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Identify different strategies dancers use to generate and organize their movement ideas. P.D.Cr.02

  • 3.

    Creating: Refine and complete artistic work. Use historical and cultural context to refine personal movement choices. P.D.Cr.03

Perform

  • 4.

    Performing: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Demonstrate how choreographers use specific techniques to evoke, express, or communicate in a movement work.P.D.P.04

  • 5. 

    Performing: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Contribute to the production of a movement work (e.g., run a section of a rehearsal). 

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    Performing: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Modify a dance performance to clarify its artistic intent by anticipating viewers’ responses. P.D.P.06

Respond

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    Responding: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Compare and contrast different movement works in use of theme, space, timing and rhythms, gestures and body language, properties (props), or costumes.P.D.R.07

  • 8.

    Responding: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Compare and contrast the artistic elements that make contemporary dance unique P.D.R.08

  • 9.

    Responding: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Choose and defend different criteria for evaluating dance work. P.D.R.09

Connect

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    Connecting: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe how dance influences their approach to other academic disciplines (P.D.Co.10). HSS Connection: Students connect the popularity of the Charleston to influences on the Harlem Renaissance in History class.  P.D.Co.10

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    Connecting: Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Explain the relationship between dance and commercialization or propaganda (e.g., arguing whether or not a commercial depiction of hip-hop dance is authentic). P.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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