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Dance language & performance skills

Dance language & performance skills (DA-L1)»
Students demonstrate understanding of and facility with the elements of dance* in a variety of contexts.

 

Students who have achieved expectations for this grade are able to

Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
use movement to demonstrate understanding of the body as the dancer’s instrument

5-8 DA-L1.1
Appendix A: The Body
use movement to demonstrate an integrated understanding of space in dance: dimensions, directions, levels, and pathways)

5-8 D-L1.2
Appendix B: Space
use movement to demonstrate understanding of relationships in dance

5-8 D-L1.3
Appendix C: Relationships
create varied movement qualities by combining motion factors in dance

5-8 D-L1.4
Appendix E: Movement Qualities
use movement to demonstrate understanding of expressive gestures (e.g., social, ritualistic, functional, emotional, character) in dance

5-8 D-L1.5
use appropriate dance vocabulary to label, describe, and analyze elements of dance

5-8 D-L1.6

*Elements of dance: the body, space, relationships, and motion factors and gestures, movement qualities, and expressive gestures
See Appendices A to E.

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Relationships
Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
simple relationships between dancers in groups more complex relationships between dancers in groups
Examples:
meeting, parting, leading, following, connecting, disconnecting, moving in unison, moving in opposition, moving in alternation, mingling, surrounding
increasingly complex relationships between dancers and props

dance relationships include:
- body part to another (e.g., relationship of wrist to elbow)
- dancer to another dancer (e.g., mirroring, meeting, parting)
- dancer to group (e.g., moving in unison)
- one group to another (e.g., moving in opposition)
- dancer to object (e.g., strutting around a cane, passing/receiving a ball)
- dancer to performance space (e.g., adapting performance to spatial possibilities and/or limitations)
- dancer to production elements (sets, music, lights, costume, mood)
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