Targeted Standards:

National Standards for Arts Education:

The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).


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Content Standard 2

Understanding choreographic principles, processes, and structures

Achievement Standard

    Proficient:
  • Students use improvisation to generate movement for choreography
  • Students demonstrate understanding of structures or forms (such as palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief dance studies
  • Students choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures

    Advanced:
  • Students demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient skills to create a small group dance with coherence and aesthetic unity
  • Students accurately describe how a choreographer manipulated and developed the basic movement content in a dance

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