Stage B - Fine Arts--Dance
Descriptors
25A - Students who meet the standard understand the sensory
elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities
of the arts.
- Identify body parts and describe locomotor and nonlocomotor
movements they perform.
- Identify personal and shared space, directions, levels,
size of movements, body shapes.
- Identify quick/slow, strong/light movements.
- Identify two parts in a dance and/or accompaniment (AB
form).
- Identify starting and ending positions in personal or
peer dances.
- Suggest meanings that locomotor and nonlocomotor movement
can convey (e.g., light, quick skips suggest happiness;
dragging feet suggest sadness).
25B - Students who meet the standard understand the similarities,
distinctions, and connections in and among the arts.
- Identify sensory elements, organizational principles,
and expressive qualities used in more than one art form.
- Examine the same sensory elements, organizational principles,
and expressive qualities in two different works in the same
art form.
- Investigate story, feelings, or expressive ideas shared
in the work of two different art forms.
26A - Students who meet the standard understand processes,
traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts.
- Identify the body as the main tool of dance.
- Suggest movements that would be appropriate for response
to words, sounds, pictures, props, and/or stories.
- Explore movement combining two or more elements (e. g.,
join body shape and level).
26B - Students who meet the standard can apply skills
and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more
of the arts.
- Perform and differentiate among basic locomotor and
nonlocomotor movements.
- Imitate and distinguish among
stretched, curled, angular, twisted, symmetrical, and asymmetrical
body shapes.
- Demonstrate use of spatial elements (personal
and shared, levels, directions, pathways, relationships,
size of movement)
in response to verbal cues.
- Explore time elements (fast/slow,
tempos, beat & rhythms)
in response to verbal cues.
- Explore force/energy elements
(strong/light) in response to verbal cues.
- Perform
singing games and folk dances representative of a variety
of cultures.
- Improvise dances in response to words,
sounds, pictures, props, and/or stories.
27A - Students who meet the standard can analyze how the
arts function in history, society and everyday life.
- Identify and demonstrate the qualities of good audience
behaviors.
- Share comments in a positive manner about a performance
and/or an art work.
- Name a variety of occupations (e.g., director, actor,
composer, conductor, painter, sculptor, dancer, choreographer)
associated with different art forms.
- Give examples of how the arts are used in celebrations.
- Describe how the arts tell us things in different ways
(e.g., dance/movement, music, visual image, story).
- Give examples of personal experiences in the arts outside
of school.
27B - Students who meet the standard understand how the
arts shape and reflect history, society and everyday life.
- Identify the images, objects, sounds, and movements from
a work of art and describe what they tell about people,
time, places, and everyday life.
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