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Content Standards:: I. Technique: Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance.
Standards:
A/B. Demonstrate the following movement skills and explain the underlying principles: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery, contraction and release, and the use of breath to support movement.
C. Identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions, and patterns for dance from at least four different styles or genres (e.g., ballet, modern, tap, social, folk).
D/E. Transfer a complex spatial pattern (e.g., circle, spiral) from the visual to the kinesthetic (e.g., use a spatial pattern found in the surrounding environment to create a similar spatial pattern in a movement sequence, replicate the spatial pattern of a set dance sequence).
F. Safely maintain personal and general space while moving.
G. Transfer a complex rhythmic pattern from the auditory to the kinesthetic.
H. Identify and demonstrate a range of movement qualities (e.g., sustained, percussive, vibratory, bound, free flowing).
I. Demonstrate increasing kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.
J. Demonstrate accurate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences.
K. Describe the action and movement elements observed in a dance, using the appropriate movement/dance vocabulary.
L. Refine technique through teacher evaluation and correction.