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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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Movement Qualities
Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
use individual motion factors: weight – strong/light; time – sudden/sustained; space – direct/indirect; flow – bound/free
combine two motion factors (e.g., combining time and weight to achieve strong-sustained, strong-sudden, light-sustained, and light-sudden movements)
explore variations of weight qualities (sustained, percussive, suspended, vibratory, and collapsing)
  combine three motion factors (time-weight-space) into Laban’s basic effort actions:
- glide (sustain + light+ direct)
- float (sustain + light + flexible)
- flick (sudden + light + flexible)
- dab (sudden + light + direct)
- press (sustained + strong + direct)
- thrust/punch (sudden + strong + direct)
- wring (sustained + strong + flexible)
- slash (sudden + strong + flexible)
  explore opposite effort actions:
- flick-press
- float-thrust
- glide-slash
- dab-wring
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