Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Standard 1: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts

1. Students will perform set dance forms in formal and informal contexts and will improvise, create, and perform dances based on their own movement ideas. They will demonstrate an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures and of the roles of various participants in dance productions.

Students:

identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills (such as bend, twist, slide, skip, hop) (a)
demonstrate ways of moving in relation to people, objects, and environments in set dance forms (b)
create and perform simple dances based on their own movement ideas (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

demonstrate the movements of various animals, a cat, a dog, an elephant, a monkey, etc.
pretend that they are flowers or plants caught in a wind, moving in groups of two or three to suggest the movement

invent a dance based on a children's game, such as, Farmer in the Dell, London Bridge, etc.