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Arts Education Standards
 Dance
- Content Standard 1 — Identifying and demonstrating movement
elements and skills in performing dance
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Accurately demonstrate nonlocomotor/axial movements (such as bend,
twist, stretch, swing)
- Accurately demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements (such as
walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling forward,
backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning
- Demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding
to changes in tempo
- Demonstrate the ability to define and maintain personal space
- Content Standard 2 — Understanding choreographic principles,
processes, and structures
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end both with and
without a rhythmic accompaniment
- Create a dance phrase, accurately repeat it, and then vary it (making
change in the time, space, and/or force/energy)
- Content Standard 5 — Demonstrating and understanding
dance in various cultures and historical periods
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Perform folk dances from various cultures with competence and confidence
- Learn and effectively share a dance from a resource in their own
community: describe the cultural and/or historical context
- Content Standard 7 — Making connections between dance
and other disciplines
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Create a dance project that reveals understanding of a concept or
idea from another discipline (such as pattern in dance and science)
Source: National Standards for Arts Education,
published by Music Educators National Conference (MENC). Copyright ©
1994 by MENC. Used by permission. The complete National Arts Standards
and additional materials relating to the standards are available from
MENC, The National Association for Music Education, 1806 Robert Fulton
Drive, Reston, VA 20191, telephone: 800-336-3768.
Source, Dance Standards: This article/quote is reprinted
from National Standards for Arts Education with permission of the National
Dance Association, an association of the American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The original source may be purchased
from: National Dance Association, 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1599;
or phone 703-476-3421.
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