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DANCE 1

TECHNIQUE
Students will demonstrate technical proficiency and knowledge of the body through warming up the body, proper nutrition, adequate hydration, sleep, conditioning, and injury prevention. Students will also develop knowledge of the body through conditioning, strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination, and agility. Students will develop knowledge and skills in floor pattern, using the eight basic loco motor movements:
Even: walk, run, hop, jump, and leap. Uneven: skip, slide, and gallop.

Develop an awareness of performing techniques. Demonstrate basic concepts of performing techniques using kinesthetic awareness, focus, rhythm, space, and energy in themselves and other dancers. They will also demonstrate appropriate rehearsal and class behavior when performing and being an audience member.

ELEMENTS OF DANCE
Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills in the elements of time, space and energy by:
Perform directional spatial concepts: forward, sideways, backward, and diagonal.
Improvise on pathways while performing floor patterns.
Demonstrate level changes.
Create symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes.
Demonstrate contrasting tempos.
Identify and perform various accents in metric phrasing.
Accurately move in 4/4 and 3/4 time.
Demonstrate the forces of strength and flow.
Demonstrate the forces of weight
Identify the basic qualities of movement.

CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS
Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures:
Structured improvisation.
Perform a structured improvisation based on one of the elements of dance.
Perform a structured improvisation based on an idea or activity.
Demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
Create, perform, and evaluate a sequence or dance study with a beginning, middle, and end.
Create, perform, and evaluate a dance study, with a beginning, middle, and end, in a small group.
Create and perform a movement sequence based on a dance element.
Demonstrate partner skills using the element of shape in a visually interesting way.
Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in small groups during choreographic process

DANCE 2

TECHNIQUE
Students will demonstrate technical proficiency and knowledge of the body through warming up the body, proper nutrition, adequate hydration, sleep, conditioning, and injury prevention. Students will also develop knowledge of the body through conditioning, strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination, and agility. Students will perform complex axial sequences including loco motor movements demonstrating dynamic alignment and dynamic balance; articulation of the spine promoting mobility and stability, the use of breath to integrate movements, movement initiation from the center of the body, and movement connectivity.

Students will develop an awareness of performing techniques. Demonstrate basic concepts of performing techniques using kinesthetic awareness, focus, rhythm, space, and energy in themselves and other dancers. They will also demonstrate appropriate rehearsal and class behavior when performing and being an audience member.

ELEMENTS OF DANCE
Develop knowledge and skills in space. Demonstrate an understanding of spatial pathways, directions, and facings. Create a spatial floor pattern. Demonstrate knowledge of contrasting spatial planes: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, lateral. Create independent and interdependent shapes with partners. Develop shape relationships with transitions with a partner, and in a group.

Develop knowledge and skills in time. Demonstrate rhythmic phrasing. Investigate even and uneven intervals within a metric phrase. Demonstrate accent. Clap and move in syncopation. Demonstrate non-metric (breath) rhythm.

Develop knowledge and skills in energy and motion. Perform the six basic qualities of movements exploring the qualities of movement found in other curricular areas. Create a group composition that clearly defines two or more contrasting qualities.

CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS
Demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structure: Define the compositional elements of continuity, sequence, repetition, variety, unison, contrast, transition, and climax. Create and perform a dance study using two compositional principles as a focus. Create and perform a dance sequence with a beginning, middle, and end with musical accompaniment.

MEANING
Demonstrate the process of abstraction altering time, space, energy through reordering, repeating, diminishing, and/or inverting the movement. Analyze how each alteration may change meaning.
Create, abstract, and perform a movement pattern based on a gesture, response, visual image, or idea.

Identify and demonstrate through composition how elements of continuity, sequence, transition, repetition, variety, and
climax communicate meaning in dance. Analyze and demonstrate how personal experience influences interpretation of
a dance. Create a composition that successfully communicates a topic of personal significance.