Note: Every dance class is required to pay a $25 class fee
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Beginning Dance
Beginning dance students will be able to...
- Task 1: Create a dance that is a minimum of 32 counts
- Task 2: Demonstrate a teacher-created sequence that uses whole body movements and technical skills that demonstrate strength, flexibility, endurance, and proper alignment.
- Task 3: Demonstrate a series of technical skills
- Task 4: Self reflect
- Task 5: View and analyze dance performances
- Task 6: Complete an informative written response
Intermediate Dance
Intermediate dance students will be able to...
- Task 1: Create a dance that is a minimum of 64 counts
- Task 2: Demonstrate a teacher-created sequence that uses whole body movements and technical skills that demonstrate strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, and proper alignment.
- Task 3: Demonstrate a series of technical skills
- Task 4: Self refelct
- Task 5: View and analyze the aesthetics for creating and evaluating dance performances
- Task 6: Complete an informative written response
Proficient Dance
Proficient dance students will be able to...
- Task 1: Create a dance that is a minimum of 1 minute and 30 seconds and integrates another discipline and uses a selected choreographic structure, tools and production elements to fulfill choreographic intent.
- Task 2: Based on written choreographic process, students will create a 1 minute and 30 second dance to a musical composition written in a triple meter, and the choreography must be inspired by literary works or visual images.
- Task 3: Self reflections
- Task 4: Analyze how the major movement ideas, elements, and structures of dances are developed to create meaning.
- Task 5: Complete and informative written response
Advance Dance
Advance dance students will be able to...
- Task 1: (Solo) Create a 2 minute solo based on ideas, experiences, feelings, concepts, images, or narratives that have personal meaning or social significance
- Task 2: (Group) Create a 2 minute dance using appropriate & technique based movement choices, choreography principles, structure, processes, and production elements.
- Task 3: Create a 2 minute dance inspired by an analysis of movement choices and structural forms used in a variety of significant American dance works, differentiating the dance style of important 20th and 21st century choreographers.
- Task 4: Evaluate personal performance in dance using feedback from a variety of sources.
- Task 5: Dance analysis
- Task 6: Complete an informative written response