Standards
Incorporate energy/effort and dynamics to technique exercises and dance performance. Use energy and dynamics to enhance and project movements.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceCreate movement from a variety of stimuli (for example 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 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 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 resourceExplore or invent a system to record a dance sequence through writing, symbols, or a form of media technology (e.g. Laban motif symbols, creative writing, etc.).
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 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 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 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 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 relationships of movement components and concepts through creative processes by investigating various improvisational approaches.
Generate resourceRevise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic intent.
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 resourceExplore choreographic elements, structures and processes to develop a dance study. Explain the choreographic intent of the movement.
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 resourceConstruct and solve multiple movement problems to develop choreographic content.
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 resourceDescribe, demonstrate and compare dance sequences from different dances in context of their artistic intent.
Generate resourceApply movement principles such as movement initiation, and use of imagery, while performing dance sequences and movement studies.
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 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 resourceExplain how music helps to create a sense of identity, community, and solidarity.
Generate resourceApply personally and/or collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain 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 resourceDescribe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from others (teacher and peers).
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas within expanded forms (e.g. introductions, transitions, codas, etc.).
Generate resourceSelect music to perform using personally-developed criteria and explain reasons for choices.
Generate resourceGenerate coherent musical ideas (e.g. rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes within a specified form.
Generate resourceClassify and explain, citing evidence, how musical concepts, design, and contexts affect responses to music.
Generate resourcePresent the final version of their documented personally or collectively created music to others and explain their creative process and intent.
Generate resourceUse notation to document personal or collective rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences.
Generate resourceSynthesize relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).
Generate resourceExplain how interpretation is connected to expressive intent in various musics.
Generate resourceClassify and describe expressive attributes and context and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceWith an appropriate level of independence rehearse to refine technique, expression, and identified performance challenges.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and document selected and developed ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions (e.g. unity, variety, balance, tension, and release).
Generate resourceApply personally and/or collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate personal and ensemble performance.
Generate resourceDesign, structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering intent, resources, and the presentation context.
Generate resourceDesign the presentation and distribution of media artworks through multiple formats and/or contexts.
Generate resourceAnalyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools, environments, legal, and technological contexts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, virtual worlds, and digital identity.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceProduce a variety of ideas and solutions for media artworks through application of chosen inventive processes (such as concept modeling and prototyping).
Generate resourceDemonstrate a teacher-defined range of creative and adaptive innovation techniques (such as divergent solutions and bending conventions) in developing new solutions for identified problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceExplain and demonstrate how media artworks expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences (such as local and global events).
Generate resourceEvaluate media art works and production processes with developed criteria, considering context and artistic goals.
Generate resourceDemonstrate a teacher-defined range of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, through performing specified roles in producing media artworks (such as strategizing and collaborative communication).
Generate resourceCompare, contrast, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and style in media artworks.
Generate resourceEvaluate the results of and implement improvements for presenting media artworks, considering impacts on personal growth and external effects.
Generate resourceIntegrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey specific themes or ideas (such as interdisciplinary projects, or multimedia theatre).
Generate resourceDemonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.
Generate resourceAnalyze the intent, message and meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts.
Generate resourceImplement production processes to integrate content and stylistic conventions for determined meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles (such as theme and unity).
Generate resourceRefine and modify media artworks, improving technical quality and intentionally accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, and place.
Generate resourceAccess, evaluate, and use internal and external resources to inform the creation of media artworks (such as cultural and societal knowledge, research, and exemplary works).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various purposes, values, cultures, and contexts (such as democracy, environment, and connecting people and places).
Generate resourceCompare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and create intention.
Generate resourceExplore and discuss solutions to design challenges of a performance space in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceAnalyze how cultural perspectives influence the evaluation of a theatrical work.
Generate resourceIncorporate multiple perspectives and diverse community ideas in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDescribe how character relationships assist in telling a story of a theatrical work.
Generate resourceRespond to a theatrical work using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria.
Generate resourceIdentify and use artifacts from a time period and place to develop performance and design choices in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceResearch the story elements of a staged theatrical work and compare them to another production of the same work.
Generate resourceDemonstrate character choices using given circumstances in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceImplement a planned technical design using simple technology for devised or scripted theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).
Generate resourceEvaluate the production elements used in a theatrical work to assess aesthetic choices.
Generate resourcePractice various acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or theatrical performance.
Generate resourceIncorporate music, dance, art, and/or media to strengthen the meaning and conflict in a theatrical work with a particular cultural, global, or historic context.
Generate resourceShare responsibilities and leadership roles to develop collaborative goals when preparing or devising theatrical work.
Generate resourceApply personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to evaluate a theatrical work.
Generate resourceArticulate and apply critical analysis, background knowledge, research and historical and cultural context to the development of original ideas for a theatrical work.
Generate resourceUse a variety of technical elements to create a design for a rehearsal or theatrical work.
Generate resourceApply character choices based on other artist's or personal experiences in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceRefine effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceDevelop a scripted or improvised character by discussing the character's inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceInvestigate and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to staging problems in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceCollaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using contemporary practices of art and design.
Generate resourceTake risks to pursue ideas, themes, meanings, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures, addressing social issues in contemporary art) that emerge in the process of art making or designing.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast contexts (such as video games, music concerts, powwows) in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
Generate resourceCollaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based (such as joy, celebration, protest, environment) artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives (such as text panel, video introduction, docent talk) for the viewer.
Generate resourceUse tools, materials, and processes purposefully and demonstrate awareness of practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation (such as grouping strategies, consideration of eye level, measuring).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceCreate a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art by citing both evidence visible in the artwork (a primary source) and published verbal information (either primary or secondary source/s) about the artwork or about the artist who made it.
Generate resourceCreate a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art by citing both primary and secondary sources.
Generate resourceSelect, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the choice of what art or design to preserve reflects the values of the community.
Generate resourceExplain how artists' choices of visual characteristics (such as elements and principles in Western art or other culture's visual traditions) are influenced by the culture and environment in which they live.
Generate resourceMake art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity.
Generate resourceDocument early stages of the creative process with images or words in traditional or new media (such as a sketchbook/journal, digital recordkeeping).
Generate resourceDistinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity (such as examining the art related to musical groups, international costumes, sports teams, special interest clubs).
Generate resourceApply relevant criteria (such as craftsmanship, originality, well-organized composition) to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.
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