AE17.D.1.21

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 1 - Dance

AE17.D.1.21

Observe and perform a dance from a familiar culture that utilizes multiple elements of dance.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?

Skills Examples

  • Perform a dance to express the coming of spring.
  • Utilize shapes and movements of the body to improvise the metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly.
  • Utilize dance to show a plant's life cycle.
  • Utilize shapes to create a setting for a story.
  • Demonstrate the shapes and movement of a dance that was performed at school or in the community.
  • Identify attributes of cultural dance that was taught in class.

Vocabulary

  • Elements of Dance
  • Connect dance to a familiar experience.
  • Connect dance to an illustrated story.
  • Elements of dance
  • Cultural Movement Practices
  • Dance Literacy

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
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