NORTH CAROLINA ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Dance

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Kindergarten

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.