NORTH CAROLINA ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Dance

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Kindergarten

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.K.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.K.DA.CP.1.1 - Identify components of the elements of dance movement (body, time, space, energy).
- NCES.K.DA.CP.1.2 - Execute spontaneous movement during improvisational explorations.
- NCES.K.DA.CP.1.3 - Understand that dance has a beginning, middle, and end.
- NCES.K.DA.CP.1.4 - Create dance movement to represent words, ideas, experiences, and feelings.

NCES.K.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.K.DA.CP.2.1 - Understand how to control body and voice in personal and general space.
- NCES.K.DA.CP.2.2 - Recognize that concentration is an important part of dance.
- NCES.K.DA.CP.2.3 - Identify improvements made in dance based on teacher feedback.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.K.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.K.DA.DM.1.1 - Illustrate the difference between whole body movement and isolation of body parts.
- NCES.K.DA.DM.1.2 - Discriminate between moving and stillness.
- NCES.K.DA.DM.1.3 - Recognize basic locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movements.
- NCES.K.DA.DM.1.4 - Use the element of time (tempo) in movement.
- NCES.K.DA.DM.1.5 - Use directions, levels, and pathways in general space.

Strand: Responding

NCES.K.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.K.DA.R.1.1 - Identify examples of movement skills and elements observed in dance performed by peers.
- NCES.K.DA.R.1.2 - Interpret the meaning of various dance movements and dances.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.K.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.K.DA.C.1.1 - Use dance to illustrate how people express themselves differently.
- NCES.K.DA.C.1.2 - Recognize connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Grade 1

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.1.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.1.DA.CP.1.1 - Create dance movement using elements of movement (body, time, space, energy).
- NCES.1.DA.CP.1.2 - Compare spontaneous movement (improvisation) and planned movement (choreography).
- NCES.1.DA.CP.1.3 - Construct dance phrases which illustrate beginning, middle, and ending.
- NCES.1.DA.CP.1.4 - Create movement that expresses words, ideas, experiences, and feelings.

NCES.1.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.1.DA.CP.2.1 - Use body and voice control in personal and general space.
- NCES.1.DA.CP.2.2 - Exemplify concentration during dance explorations.
- NCES.1.DA.CP.2.3 - Understand how teacher feedback can be used to improve dance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.1.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.1.DA.DM.1.1 - Identify body parts, their range of motion, and use of body center.
- NCES.1.DA.DM.1.2 - Execute a variety of body shapes.
- NCES.1.DA.DM.1.3 - Contrast basic locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movements.
- NCES.1.DA.DM.1.4 - Understand use of beat, meter, and duration in dance movement.
- NCES.1.DA.DM.1.5 - Illustrate directions, levels, and pathways in general space.

Strand: Responding

NCES.1.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.1.DA.R.1.1 - Explain movement skills and elements observed in dances performed by peers.
- NCES.1.DA.R.1.2 - Understand how responses to dance can be used to represent feelings and opinions.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.1.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.1.DA.C.1.1 - Recognize how dance is used in customs and traditions of various cultures.
- NCES.1.DA.C.1.2 - Understand connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Grade 2

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.2.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.1.1 - Use basic elements of movement to generate short dance phrases.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.1.2 - Use teacher-led improvisation in the process of creating dance phrases.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.1.3 - Create dance phrases with simple patterns.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.1.4 - Create dance phrases that express words, ideas, experiences, and feelings.

NCES.2.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.2.1 - Understand how to be respectful of self and others in a dance setting.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.2.2 - Use concentration and focus during dance explorations.
- NCES.2.DA.CP.2.3 - Use teacher and peer feedback to improve dance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.2.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.2.DA.DM.1.1 - Exemplify isolation of body parts and use of body center.
- NCES.2.DA.DM.1.2 - Illustrate a variety of body shapes in space.
- NCES.2.DA.DM.1.3 - Exemplify locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movements in performing dance phrases.
- NCES.2.DA.DM.1.4 - Recognize examples of simple rhythms and patterns in movement.
- NCES.2.DA.DM.1.5 - Exemplify a variety of directions, levels, and pathways in general space.

Strand: Responding

NCES.2.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.2.DA.R.1.1 - Distinguish movement skills and elements observed in significant dance works.
- NCES.2.DA.R.1.2 - Use words or images to describe possible meanings observed in dance.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.2.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.2.DA.C.1.1 - Exemplify dance representing the heritage, customs, and traditions of various cultures.
- NCES.2.DA.C.1.2 - Understand connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Grade 3

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.3.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.3.DA.CP.1.1 - Create simple dance sequences by combining dance phrases.
- NCES.3.DA.CP.1.2 - Use teacher-led improvisation to expand movement possibilities for creating dance sequences.
- NCES.3.DA.CP.1.3 - Use abstraction of everyday movement to create sequences that communicate feelings, ideas, and stories.

NCES.3.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.3.DA.CP.2.1 - Use safe and respectful movement practices in the dance setting.
- NCES.3.DA.CP.2.2 - Understand how use of concentration enhances performance.
- NCES.3.DA.CP.2.3 - Use teacher and peer feedback to refine performance quality in dance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.3.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.3.DA.DM.1.1 - Recognize beginning principles of dance technique, including rotation, elevation, and landing in dance movement.
- NCES.3.DA.DM.1.2 - Use transitions between multiple body shapes.
- NCES.3.DA.DM.1.3 - Exemplify dance quality in performing locomotor and non- locomotor (axial) movement.
- NCES.3.DA.DM.1.4 - Recall dance movement phrases containing rhythmic patterns in various meters.
- NCES.3.DA.DM.1.5 - Understand a variety of spatial designs and relationships used in dance.

Strand: Responding

NCES.3.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.3.DA.R.1.1 - Compare movement elements (body, space, time, energy) observed in dance.
- NCES.3.DA.R.1.2 - Identify examples of movement skills and elements observed in dance from one's own and different cultures.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.3.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.3.DA.C.1.1 - Exemplify how dance is used by various groups for artistic expression within the local community.
- NCES.3.DA.C.1.2 - Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Grade 4

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.4.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.1.1 - Organize dance phrases into simple dance sequences that have a beginning, middle, and end, and that vary the use of the dance elements.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.1.2 - Use independent and/or cooperative skills to improvise and create dance.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.1.3 - Create short dance sequences that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, images, or stories.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.1.4 - Understand how different strategies for problem solving in dance lead to different outcomes.

NCES.4.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.2.1 - Use control of body, voice, and focus necessary for effective participation in dance.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.2.2 - Use concentration and focus to perform short dance sequences.
- NCES.4.DA.CP.2.3 - Identify personal goals to improve performance quality in dance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.4.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.4.DA.DM.1.1 - Illustrate safe movement choices through the use of dance technique, including balance, rotation, elevation, and landing in dance movement.
- NCES.4.DA.DM.1.2 - Illustrate a variety of ways to use shapes.
- NCES.4.DA.DM.1.3 - Execute locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movement with clarity and intent.
- NCES.4.DA.DM.1.4 - Differentiate between duple and triple meter.
- NCES.4.DA.DM.1.5 - Execute a variety of group spatial designs and relationships while dancing.

Strand: Responding

NCES.4.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.4.DA.R.1.1 - Use dance vocabulary to describe elements of movement (body, space, time, energy) while observing dance.
- NCES.4.DA.R.1.2 - Explain how personal perspective influences interpretations of dance.
- NCES.4.DA.R.1.3 - Use different aesthetic criteria for evaluating dances.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.4.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.4.DA.C.1.1 - Understand how dance has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of North Carolina.
- NCES.4.DA.C.1.2 - Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Grade 5

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.5.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.1.1 - Create short dances that use simple choreographic forms and structures (musical, literary, or visual), and that vary the use of dance elements.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.1.2 - Use collaborative skills to improvise and create dance.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.1.3 - Create short dances that communicate abstract ideas.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.1.4 - Generate strategies for problem solving in dance.

NCES.5.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.2.1 - Execute control of body, voice, and focus necessary for effective participation in individual and group settings in dance.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.2.2 - Use kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus to enhance the performance of dance sequences.
- NCES.5.DA.CP.2.3 - Monitor personal goals to improve performance quality in dance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.5.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.5.DA.DM.1.1 - Use muscular strength, flexibility, stamina, and coordination in the development of beginning dance technique.
- NCES.5.DA.DM.1.2 - Exemplify how to maintain a sense of body shape while moving and in stillness.
- NCES.5.DA.DM.1.3 - Integrate locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movement and stillness into dance sequences through use of transitions.
- NCES.5.DA.DM.1.4 - Illustrate phrasing in a selected piece of music using dance movement.
- NCES.5.DA.DM.1.5 - Use a variety of spatial designs and relationships with clarity and intent while dancing.

Strand: Responding

NCES.5.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.5.DA.R.1.1 - Analyze the relationship between dance elements when observing dance.
- NCES.5.DA.R.1.2 - Illustrate the roles and responsibilities of the viewer in interpreting dances.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.5.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.5.DA.C.1.1 - Understand how dance has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of the United States.
- NCES.5.DA.C.1.2 - Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.

Grade 6

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.6.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.1.1 - Understand the role of improvisation in choreography.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.1.2 - Create short dances that have a beginning, middle, and end, and that vary the use of the dance elements.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.1.3 - Use abstracted movement to create dance phrases that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, or images.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.1.4 - Use collaborative and cooperative skills to contribute constructively to the creation of dance.

NCES.6.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.2.1 - Use safe and respectful behaviors as a dance class participant.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.2.2 - Use concentration and focus while dancing.
- NCES.6.DA.CP.2.3 - Understand how self-assessment, teacher feedback, and peer feedback can be used to refine dance performance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.6.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.6.DA.DM.1.1 - Understand the purpose of beginning dance technique in terms of developing muscular strength, alignment, flexibility, stamina, and coordination.
- NCES.6.DA.DM.1.2 - Compare qualities within the elements of time, space, weight, and flow in dance.
- NCES.6.DA.DM.1.3 - Execute technical skills from a variety of dance forms.
- NCES.6.DA.DM.1.4 - Analyze the components of time in dance.

Strand: Responding

NCES.6.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.6.DA.R.1.1 - Analyze the relationship between dance elements when observing dance.
- NCES.6.DA.R.1.2 - Interpret the meanings of dances created by peers and others.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.6.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.6.DA.C.1.1 - Understand dance in relationship to the geography, history, and culture of world civilizations and societies from the beginning of human society to the emergence of the First Global Age (1450).
- NCES.6.DA.C.1.2 - Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.
- NCES.6.DA.C.1.3 - Understand how dance promotes health and physical well-being.
- NCES.6.DA.C.1.4 - Identify the various roles a person may play when putting together and presenting a dance production.

Grade 7

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.7.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.1.1 - Explain a variety of approaches to choreography.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.1.2 - Create dances that use simple choreographic forms and structures (musical, literary, or visual), fulfill choreographic intent, and meet aesthetic criteria.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.1.3 - Select movement phrases to create dance sequences that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, images, or stories.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.1.4 - Generate solutions to technical or structural movement problems in the creative process.

NCES.7.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.2.1 - Use safe and respectful behaviors as a dance class participant.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.2.2 - Use clarity, concentration, and focus while dancing.
- NCES.7.DA.CP.2.3 - Use self-assessment, teacher feedback, and peer feedback to refine dance performance quality.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.7.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.7.DA.DM.1.1 - Understand how dance technique uses anatomical concepts of alignment, strength, and range of motion.
- NCES.7.DA.DM.1.2 - Apply the effort qualities of time, space, weight, and flow in dance.
- NCES.7.DA.DM.1.3 - Apply technical skills from a variety of dance traditions.
- NCES.7.DA.DM.1.4 - Use breath to facilitate movement in dancing.

Strand: Responding

NCES.7.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.7.DA.R.1.1 - Use dance vocabulary to describe how elements of movement are used to communicate ideas in dance.
- NCES.7.DA.R.1.2 - Understand how personal experiences and perspectives influence interpretations of dance.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.7.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.7.DA.C.1.1 - Understand dance in relationship to the geography, history, and culture of modern societies from the emergence of the First Global Age (1450) to the present.
- NCES.7.DA.C.1.2 - Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.
- NCES.7.DA.C.1.3 - Explain how to promote health, physical safety, and reduced risk of injury through dance.
- NCES.7.DA.C.1.4 - Identify dance and dance-related careers.

Grade 8

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.8.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.1.1 - Use a variety of approaches, such as musical, literary, or visual forms, to choreograph dances.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.1.2 - Create dances that fulfill aesthetic criteria including: beginning, development of an idea, resolution, and end; use of variety in the elements of dance; artistic form; and communication of the intent of the choreographer.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.1.3 - Organize dance sequences into simple dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feeling, images, or stories.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.1.4 - Use reflection and discussion to revise choreography.

NCES.8.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.2.1 - Use safe and respectful behaviors as a dance class participant.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.2.2 - Integrate the use of clarity, concentration, and focus while dancing.
- NCES.8.DA.CP.2.3 - Integrate self-assessment, teacher feedback, and peer feedback in the process of refining dance performance.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.8.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.8.DA.DM.1.1 - Apply anatomical concepts to movements that are vertical, off-vertical, and on one leg with balance, agility, endurance, and ease of movement.
- NCES.8.DA.DM.1.2 - Apply combinations of time, space, weight, and flow in dance.
- NCES.8.DA.DM.1.3 - Execute technical skills in dance.
- NCES.8.DA.DM.1.4 - Integrate breath support to facilitate and clarify movement.

Strand: Responding

NCES.8.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.8.DA.R.1.1 - Use accurate terminology to describe the major movement ideas, elements, and choreographic structures of dance.
- NCES.8.DA.R.1.2 - Use multiple perspectives and criteria in evaluating dances.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.8.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.8.DA.C.1.1 - Understand the role of dance in North Carolina and the United States in relation to history and geography.
- NCES.8.DA.C.1.2 - Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.
- NCES.8.DA.C.1.3 - Design personal strategies to improve health and well-being through dance.
- NCES.8.DA.C.1.4 - Explain the implications of career pathways and economic considerations when selecting careers in dance.

High School

Strand: Creation and Performance

NCES.B.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.1.1 - Generate abstracted movement to communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, or images.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.1.2 - Create dance sequences that vary the use of dance elements, use simple choreographic structures, and use choreographic principles to fulfill choreographic intent.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.1.3 - Understand the role of improvisation in creating dance choreography.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.1.4 - Use collaborative and cooperative skills to contribute constructively to the creation of dance.

NCES.B.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.2.1 - Use appropriate behaviors and etiquette while observing, creating, and performing dance.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.2.2 - Understand the impact of performance values of clarity, concentration, focus, and projection on dance performance.
- NCES.B.DA.CP.2.3 - Understand how self-assessment, teacher, and peer feedback can be used to refine dance performance.

NCES.I.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.1.1 - Create dances that vary the use of dance elements and use simple choreographic principles and structures to fulfill choreographic intent.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.1.2 - Create dances that use a variety of forms (such as AB, ABA, canon, rondo, theme and variation, retrograde, chance) for organizational structure.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.1.3 - Generate aesthetic criteria for creating and evaluating dance.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.1.4 - Generate components of a creative process for choreographing and presenting dance.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.1.5 - Analyze the impact of theatrical elements (lighting, sound, setting, costumes, props and make-up) on choreography to communicate meaning in dance.

NCES.I.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.2.1 - Use consistently appropriate dance behaviors and etiquette as a dancer, performer, choreographer, and observer.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.2.2 - Use performance values of clarity, concentration, focus, and projection to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.I.DA.CP.2.3 - Compare teacher and self-assessment to refine personal performance in dance.

NCES.P.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.1.1 - Create dances using selected dance elements, choreographic principles, structures, processes, and production elements to fulfill choreographic intent and meet aesthetic criteria.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.1.2 - Analyze musical compositions and structural forms as a basis for choreographing dances.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.1.3 - Use aesthetic criteria to evaluate and revise choreography.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.1.4 - Use a defined creative process to plan, create, revise, and present dance.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.1.5 - Analyze the impact of movement selection, choreographic processes, and production design choices on communicating meaning in personal dances.

NCES.P.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.2.1 - Distinguish appropriate behaviors and etiquette for self and others in a variety of dance roles (such as dancer, performer, choreographer, and observer) to enhance the performance experience.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.2.2 - Monitor the use of performance values to enhance dance performance while dancing alone and with others.
- NCES.P.DA.CP.2.3 - Monitor teacher, peer, and self-assessments to refine personal performance in dance.

NCES.A.DA.CP.1 - Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.1.1 - Create dances using appropriate movement choices; choreographic principles, structures, and processes; and production elements to fulfill choreographic intent and meet aesthetic criteria.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.1.2 - Create dance based on an analysis of movement choices and structural forms used in a variety of significant American dance works.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.1.3 - Monitor the use of personal aesthetic criteria to guide the creative process in dance.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.1.4 - Generate innovative solutions to movement problems with personal choreography and the choreography of others.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.1.5 - Create dance for performance based on ideas, experiences, feelings, concepts, images, or narratives that have personal meaning or social significance.

NCES.A.DA.CP.2 - Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.2.1 - Monitor appropriate behaviors and etiquette in a variety of dance roles (dancer, performer, choreographer, and observer) in order to maintain a positive and supportive environment.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.2.2 - Integrate performance values when creating and performing dance.
- NCES.A.DA.CP.2.3 - Evaluate personal performance in dance using feedback from a variety of sources.

Strand: Dance Movement Skills

NCES.B.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.B.DA.DM.1.1 - Use whole body movements, strength, flexibility, endurance, and proper alignment to develop dance technique.
- NCES.B.DA.DM.1.2 - Use time, space, weight, and flow in performing dance.
- NCES.B.DA.DM.1.3 - Execute technical skills from a variety of dance forms.
- NCES.B.DA.DM.1.4 - Use breath to facilitate dance movement.

NCES.I.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.I.DA.DM.1.1 - Understand how anatomical concepts can be used to improve alignment, balance, strength, flexibility, and endurance in dance.
- NCES.I.DA.DM.1.2 - Compare the following pairs of concepts: bound and free flow, strong and light weight, sudden and sustained time, and direct and indirect space.
- NCES.I.DA.DM.1.3 - Apply technical skills from a variety of dance forms to enhance performance.
- NCES.I.DA.DM.1.4 - Apply breath support to movement and phrasing.

NCES.P.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.P.DA.DM.1.1 - Execute the integration of anatomy, body organization, and body skills in dance.
- NCES.P.DA.DM.1.2 - Discriminate between qualities of space, time, weight, and flow in dance sequences.
- NCES.P.DA.DM.1.3 - Understand how articulation of movement and the use of movement vocabulary from a variety of sources support the development of dance technique.
- NCES.P.DA.DM.1.4 - Integrate breath support into movement, phrasing, and expression.

NCES.A.DA.DM.1 - Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
- NCES.A.DA.DM.1.1 - Use dynamic alignment, articulation of movement, and aesthetic criteria to refine dance movement.
- NCES.A.DA.DM.1.2 - Integrate the use of time, space, weight, and effort in dance.
- NCES.A.DA.DM.1.3 - Monitor the use of anatomy, body organization, body skills, and dance technique to refine dance performance.
- NCES.A.DA.DM.1.4 - Integrate breath, articulation, and weight shift while dancing.

Strand: Responding

NCES.B.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.B.DA.R.1.1 - Explain how elements of movement and choreographic structures are used to communicate ideas in dance.
- NCES.B.DA.R.1.2 - Recognize the use of dance elements and choreographic forms and structures in a variety of significant, modern dance works from the 20th century to the present.

NCES.I.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.I.DA.R.1.1 - Use accurate terminology to describe how elements of movement and choreographic structures are used to communicate ideas in dances.
- NCES.I.DA.R.1.2 - Explain the influence of the choreographer's vision and intent on the creative process in dance.

NCES.P.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.P.DA.R.1.1 - Analyze how the major movement ideas, elements, and structures of dances are developed to create meaning.
- NCES.P.DA.R.1.2 - Compare the choreographer's intent and the audience members' interpretation of meaning.

NCES.A.DA.R.1 - Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
- NCES.A.DA.R.1.1 - Critique dances in terms of multiple aesthetic and cultural criteria.
- NCES.A.DA.R.1.2 - Analyze how the major movement ideas, elements, and structures of dances are developed to create meaning.

Strand: Connecting

NCES.B.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.B.DA.C.1.1 - Use dance to explore concepts in world history and relate them to significant events, ideas, and movements from a global context.
- NCES.B.DA.C.1.2 - Identify how other arts disciplines are integrated into dance creation and performance.
- NCES.B.DA.C.1.3 - Explain how health and nutrition enhance dance ability.
- NCES.B.DA.C.1.4 - Identify various dance-related professions.

NCES.I.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.I.DA.C.1.1 - Use dance to explore concepts of civics and economics (such as systems, functions, structures, democracy, economies, and interdependence).
- NCES.I.DA.C.1.2 - Integrate ideas and images from other disciplines to inspire new approaches to dance study.
- NCES.I.DA.C.1.3 - Identify health issues, strategies, and tools affecting the health, well-being, and care of the dancer's body.
- NCES.I.DA.C.1.4 - Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of dance as a vocational, educational, and professional choice.

NCES.P.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.P.DA.C.1.1 - Understand the role of dance in US history.
- NCES.P.DA.C.1.2 - Interpret dances from a variety of cultures and historical periods.
- NCES.P.DA.C.1.3 - Evaluate personal actions, commitment, and discipline necessary to achieve dance goals.
- NCES.P.DA.C.1.4 - Create interdisciplinary projects integrating dance and other disciplines.

NCES.A.DA.C.1 - Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
- NCES.A.DA.C.1.1 - Interpret dance from personal, cultural, and historical contexts.
- NCES.A.DA.C.1.2 - Differentiate the dance style of important twentieth- and twenty-first century choreographers.
- NCES.A.DA.C.1.3 - Explain the impact of lifestyle choices, self-concept, cultural media, and social environment on dancers.
- NCES.A.DA.C.1.4 - Identify skills and qualities leading to success in the dance field and in life, such as responsibility, adaptability, organization, communication, project management, and time management.