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:

know and demonstrate a range of movement elements and skills (such as balance, alignment, elevation, and landing) and basic dance steps, positions, and patterns (a)
dance a range of forms from free improvisation to structured choreography (b)
create or improvise dance phrases, studies, and dances, alone and/or in collaboration with others, in a variety of contexts (c)
demonstrate the ability to take various roles in group productions and performances (d).

This is evident, for example, when students:

invent a dance built on at least three different dance steps that creates a pattern and that moves throughout a given space
select a word or phrase at random from a pile of cards and improvise a movement to express the idea of the word or phrase; others in the class interpret what the dancer is expressing

take on one of the roles in a class dance production, i.e., choreographer, lighting, costuming, etc.