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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 complex steps and patterns from at least four dance styles and 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. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity dancing with and without sound accompaniment.
H. Create and perform combinations and variations with a broad range of movement qualities.
I. Demonstrate projection while performing dance.
J. Remember and reproduce entire dance works.
K. Use correct dance terminology when describing dance works.
L. Refine technique through teacher evaluation and correction.