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TECHNIQUE
Students will value dance as contributing to healthy human development. Implement goals for improving individual patterns and habits contributing to a safe, healthy body. Develop knowledge of the body through conditioning, strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination, and agility.

Develop knowledge and skills in floor pattern, loco motor steps and axial movement. Perform more complex axial sequences demonstrating dynamic alignment and dynamic balance, articulation of the spine, integration of the spine promoting mobility and stability, the use of breath to integrate movements initiation from the center of the body, and movement connectivity. Demonstrate intricate movement combinations that incorporate various axial and loco motor combinations.

Develop an awareness of performing techniques. Demonstrate basic concepts of performing techniques using kinesthetic awareness, focus, rhythm, space, and energy. Identify performing techniques in other dancers.
Demonstrate appropriate rehearsal and class behavior when performing and observing.

ELEMENTS OF DANCE
Students will 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. Create shapes through an energy improvisation. 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 adding accents, and including syncopation. Students will also demonstrate non-metric (breath) rhythm.
Develop knowledge and skills in energy and motion, performing the six basic qualities of movements. Perform an improvisation based on two or more qualities of movements. Explore the qualities of
movement found in other curricular areas. Create a group and individual composition that clearly defines two or more contrasting qualities.

CREATIVE/CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS
Students will demonstrate structured improvisation. Improvise within a structure to generate movement for
choreography. Improvise within a structure based on an element of dance. Improvise alone and with a group using AB, ABA, with or without music.

Students will demonstrate in a group and individually, choreographic principles, processes, and structures. 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
Students will develop knowledge and skills in the creative process of abstraction. 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. Analyze why a choreographer chooses a particular movement to communicate an idea in dance.