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 Content Standards:: V. History and Culture: Demonstrating and understanding dance in various cultures and historical periods.
Standards:
A. Perform folk and/or classical dances from at least two cultures and describe similarities and differences in the steps and movement styles. B. Identify a variety of American folk, social, and theatrical dances. C. Describe the cultural/historical context of various dances. D. Describe the role of dance in at least two different cultures or historical periods. E. Perform basic steps from two contemporary theatrical forms of dance and describe the similarities and differences in these two dance forms. F. Identify dance artists who are acknowledged innovators in theatrical dance; identify some of the dance works of these artists. G. Perform brief movement sequences from masterworks or etudes based on masterworks (with all copyright restrictions observed).