Stage G - Fine Arts--Dance
Descriptors
25A - Students who meet the standard understand the sensory
elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities
of the arts.
- Describe personal and peer performances in terms of sensory
elements (time, space, force, flow).
- Give examples of choreographic principles (contrast, repetition,
transition, variety, balance) and musical/ choreographic
forms (AB, canon, rondo, theme, variation).
- Interpret ways spatial factors, relationships, and body
actions are used to convey meanings in dance compositions.
25B - Students who meet the standard understand the similarities,
distinctions, and connections in and among the arts.
- Compare and contrast two works in one art form that share
similar themes or subject matter examining artistic components
(i.e., elements, principles, expressive ideas; tools, processes,
technologies; creative processes).
26A - Students who meet the standard understand processes,
traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts.
- Identify dance movements that produce specific training
results (e.g., strength, flexibility, endurance).
- Produce examples of ways that accompaniment, sets, lighting,
costumes, and/or technology can be used to influence expressive
qualities in live or videotaped dance compositions.
- Analyze how various processes can change the effect of
expressive qualities in dance compositions.
26B - Students who meet the standard can apply skills
and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more
of the arts.
- Combine actions (e.g., travel & gesture, traveling
turns, turning jumps).
- Practice and improve precision, clarity, and quality in
use of body parts, actions, and sensory elements when dancing.
- Explore, select, and refine actions, dynamic, spatial,
and relationship content in dance compositions.
- Remember, practice, and perform dances made over a period
of time.
- Perform with others in unison and canon and with spatial
clarity.
- Demonstrate movement that reflects musical qualities,
form, and style.
- Structure phrases and sections of dances based on teacher's
framework.
- Apply creative processes related to the development of
dance compositions.
27A - Students who meet the standard can analyze how the
arts function in history, society and everyday life.
- Demonstrate good audience behavior and evaluate the behavior
of self and others.
- Describe how audience behavior changes a product or performance.
- Compare and contrast the function of the arts in two similar
types of ceremonies (e.g., parades - Thanksgiving Day Parade
and Mardi Gras; Opening Ceremony - Super Bowl and World
Series).
- Explain the way the various arts are used to persuade
and promote ideas in advertising.
- Explain the ways technology is used to communicate in
each of the arts.
- Describe in each art form at least two artists' roles
and how those roles contribute to the world of work.
27B - Students who meet the standard understand how the
arts shape and reflect history, society and everyday life.
- Determine the reasons why certain artists or works of
art reflect culture (e.g. totems, ritual).
- Connect artists or their works with the trends and/or
influences they create(d).
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