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 4: Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts

4. Students will know dances from many cultures and times and recognize their relationship to various cultural, social, and historic contexts. Students will recognize that dance is performed in many different cultural settings and serves many functions in diverse societies.

Students:

identify the major dance forms of specific world cultures past and present (a)
identify some of the major dance artists from diverse cultures (b)
show how specific dance forms are related to the culture from which they come (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

attend a dance performance of an ethnic group and describe the characteristics of that dance
discuss dance as ritual in an African group
research the dance forms of the ethnic group from which they come or the dance forms of their teenage culture

create a sequence and dance after investigating poems from Africa, India, Asia and South America to discover their rhythmic and metric structure.