Standards
Revise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic intent.
Generate resourceResearch an aspect or contrasting aspects from the cultural, social or historical development of a dance genre or style, and/or the dance elements. Share the findings and discuss how these reinforced or changed personal views and understandings. Document the process of investigation.
Generate resourceExplain and compare how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent. Use genre specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceIncorporate energy/effort and dynamics to technique exercises and dance performance. Use energy and dynamics to enhance and project movements.
Generate resourceApply movement principles such as movement initiation, and use of imagery, while performing dance sequences and movement studies.
Generate resourceAnalyze and compare various movement sources (ex: personal, cross-cultural, styles and genres of movement) and their dance elements. Interpret the movement observed in regards to the development of one's attitudes, knowledge, experiences, and/or personal movement preferences.
Generate resourceExplore choreographic elements, structures and processes to develop a dance study. Explain the choreographic intent of the movement.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceRefine partner and ensemble skills through the development of kinesthetic awareness while performing diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space. Convert inward focus to outward focus for projecting out to far space.
Generate resourceConstruct and solve multiple movement problems to develop choreographic content.
Generate resourceApply technical dance skills (for example, alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement) to accurately execute changes of direction, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion, elevations and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions within dance sequences.
Generate resourceIdentify and evaluate healthful practices including nutrition and basic anatomical knowledge that promote safe and healthful strategies when warming up, dancing, and in everyday life.
Generate resourceUse combinations of sudden and sustained timing as it relates to both the time and the dynamics of a sequence or dance work. Accurately use accented and unaccented beats in 3/4 and 4/4 meter. Use timing accents to add rhythmic interest to movement.
Generate resourceInterpret and provide evidence on how artistic expression of dance is achieved through the relationships among the components of dance using genre-specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceUse artistic criteria to determine what makes an effective dance work. Utilize criteria to evaluate a specific dance work and consider content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice to comprehend artistic expression. Use genre-specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceIdentify and select production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work and explain reasons for the decisions made using production terminology. Explore possibilities of producing dance in a variety of venues or for different audiences. Provide evidence of how the production elements would be handled in different situations.
Generate resourceDemonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Document efforts and create a plan for ongoing improvements. Post performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.
Generate resourceCreate movement from a variety of stimuli (e.g. music/sound, observed dance, literary forms, natural phenomena, current news or social events, personal experience) that expands movement vocabulary and develops artistic expression. Use movement to create an original dance study.
Generate resourceExplore relationships of movement components and concepts through creative processes by investigating various improvisational approaches.
Generate resourceExplore or invent a intent. system to record a dance sequence through writing, symbols, or a form of media technology (e.g. Laban motif symbols, creative writing, etc.).
Generate resourceDescribe, demonstrate and compare dance sequences within a dance in context of their artistic intent.
Generate resourceInvestigate the dance literacy skills of dance observation, writing, and critique, understanding cultural influences, engaging in dialogue, and utilizing technology and symbol systems in one's learning.
Generate resourceDescribe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher.
Generate resourceApply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate personal and ensemble performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe expressive attributes and context and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.
Generate resourceExplain relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).
Generate resourceIdentify and describe how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.
Generate resourceReflect on and discuss the roles and impact various musics plays in one's life and the lives of others.
Generate resourcePresent the final version of personally or collectively created music to others and explain their creative process.
Generate resourceApply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.
Generate resourceGenerate musical ideas (e.g. rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes within a specified form.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceExplain why particular pieces of music are important to one's family or cultural heritage.
Generate resourceUse notation to document personal or collective rhythmic, melodic, and two- or three-chord harmonic musical ideas (e.g. chords).
Generate resourceWith an appropriate level of independence rehearse to refine technique, expression, and identified performance challenges.
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas within a specified form (e.g. AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variations, etc).
Generate resourceDemonstrate selected and developed ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions with (e.g. defined beginning, middle, and ending).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how musical concepts and contexts affect responses to music.
Generate resourceExperiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated principles (such as point of view and perspective).
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceEnvision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others.
Generate resourceAccess, evaluate, and use internal and external resources to create media artworks (such as knowledge, experiences, interests, and research).
Generate resourceDetermine and apply criteria for evaluating media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.
Generate resourceValidate how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork (such as media, narratives, and performance).
Generate resourceExplain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences (such as historical events).
Generate resourceAnalyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
Generate resourceUtilize teacher-identified creative and adaptive innovation techniques (such as testing constraints) for developing solutions in media arts productions.
Generate resourceAnalyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering fair use and copyright, ethics, and media literacy, social media, virtual worlds, and digital identity.
Generate resourceDevelop a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as invention, formal technique, production, self-initiative, and problem-solving) through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.
Generate resourceAnalyze the intent and message of a variety of media artworks, using given criteria.
Generate resourceResearch and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life, and social, community, and cultural situations (such as personal identity, history, and entertainment).
Generate resourceEvaluate how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceDevelop, organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.
Generate resourceUse physical and vocal exploration for character development in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceParticipate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques that can be applied for a theatrical work.
Generate resourceEvaluate and analyze issues and situations in a theatrical work from an audience member's perspective.
Generate resourceDiscuss a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).
Generate resourceContribute ideas and accept and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising theatrical work.
Generate resourceIdentify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDescribe the underlying thoughts and emotions that create dialogue and action in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceUse one or more production elements in a theatrical work to assess aesthetic choices.
Generate resourceIdentify and discuss personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of theatrical work.
Generate resourceExamine a community issue through multiple perspectives in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceExplore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDiscuss and identify artistic choices to refine a devised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceJustify responses based on personal experiences when participating in or observing a theatrical work.
Generate resourceChoose a variety of technical elements that can be applied to a design in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceIncorporate voice, movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceAnalyze original ideas and artistic choices to improve, refine, and evolve a devised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceResearch and analyze two different versions of the same theatrical story to determine differences and similarities in the visual and aural world of each story.
Generate resourceInvestigate the time period and place of a theatrical work to understand performance and design choices.
Generate resourceDescribe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceAnalyze ways that visual characteristics and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions (such as white associated with Western weddings and with mourning in some Asian cultures).
Generate resourceReflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
Generate resourceDesign or redesign objects or places (such as eating utensils, vending machines, wheelchair-friendly nature trails) that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceExplain standards of craftsmanship, environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.
Generate resourceCombine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
Generate resourceAssess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues (such as school lobbies, bulletin boards, local businesses) reflect history and values of a community.
Generate resourceAnalyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses (such as a comparison of an Egyptian tomb fresco, the Mayan mural at Bonampak or Arizona's Robert McCall space mural).
Generate resourceAnalyze similarities and differences associated with presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork (such as hanging on wall, placing on pedestal, lighting, video display monitor, space to walk around a sculpture)
Generate resourceDevelop and apply relevant historical and cultural criteria (such as the canon of proportions for ancient Greek art, use of space in Chinese scroll painting) to evaluate a work of art.
Generate resourceFormulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art (such as drawing on traditions of the past to generate new ideas).
Generate resourceUse art-specific vocabulary to identify how artworks/artifacts made in different cultures reveal the lives and values of the people living at that time and place.
Generate resourceIndividually or collaboratively, develop a visual plan (such as a mock gallery in a box, floor plan) for displaying works of art (such as analyzing exhibit space, identifying the needs of the viewer, planning for the security and protection of the artwork).
Generate resourceGenerate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in artmaking.
Generate resourceInterpret art by analyzing elements and principles in modern art or visual characteristics of diverse cultures, and and other visual characteristics, contextual information (such as the artist's life and times), subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
Generate resourceDemonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures, addressing social issues in contemporary art) in making works of art and design.
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