| | This course is intended to meet state and national dance standards. In grade 6 students accurately execute and embody dance skills. Students use a variety of stimuli to develop content and support artistic intent for choreographic work. Students develop various movement vocabularies and explore choreographic devices and dance structures to communicate meaning. Students develop and revise original works and document choreographic revisions and technical self-improvements overtime. Students apply total-body awareness and movement transitions. Students collaborate with peer ensemble members to refine dances and execute complex sequences, patterns, formations, and maintain focus in near and far space. Students further develop their ability to interpret and reflect on the creative process, determining artistic criteria, explaining revisions and evaluating the effectiveness of movement. Students develop their ability to interpret and support artistic intent through dance elements, use of body, dance technique, dance structure and context. There is research and original choreography concerning a student chosen social issue and the process’s impact on personal views and perspectives. Students interpret how characteristics, dance elements, and context communicate artistic intent and/or cultural purpose and explain similarities and differences between dances observed and personal movement preferences. Students compare and contrast production elements to intensify and heighten artistic intent. Students select and explain reasoning of chosen production elements using production terminology. |