Stage F - Fine Arts--Dance
Descriptors
25A - Students who meet the standard understand the sensory
elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities
of the arts.
- Describe dance compositions in terms of sensory elements
(time, space, force, flow).
- Identify aesthetic principles (contrast, repetition, transition,
variety, balance) and musical/ choreographic forms (AB,
canon, rondo, theme, variation).
- Discuss how and why dances are open to different interpretations
and reactions.
25B - Students who meet the standard understand the similarities,
distinctions, and connections in and among the arts.
- Analyze how the artistic components (i.e., elements, principles,
expressive ideas; tools, processes, technologies; creative
processes) are combined within a work of art.
26A - Students who meet the standard understand processes,
traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts.
- Discuss how the body can gain strength, flexibility, and
endurance in a safe manner.
- Identify ways that accompaniment, sets, lighting, costumes,
and/or technology can influence live or videotaped dance
compositions.
- Observe and discuss how processes (e.g., performing, improvising,
exploring, composing, and choreographing) affect the expressive
qualities of 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 and isolate 2-3 moving parts of the body in simple
coordination.
- 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 dance based on teacher's
framework.
- Discuss the processes that apply when choreographing 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 how the arts function in two different
types of ceremonies (e.g., parades, weddings, graduations,
sporting events).
- Give examples in which various arts are used to persuade
and promote ideas.
- List technology used in the arts (e.g., cameras, synthesizers,
computers, printing press).
- Categorize types of artists with their art and art related
products or performances (e.g., designers create packages,
composers write advertising jingles, architects design buildings.
27B - Students who meet the standard understand how the
arts shape and reflect history, society and everyday life.
- Investigate how the arts reflect different cultures, times,
and places.
- Compare how different art forms express aspects of the
same culture, time, or place.
- Compare and contrast the contribution of individual artists
on movements, trends, or periods.
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