List of Benchmarks for Dance |
| Standard 2. | Understands choreographic principles, processes, and structures |
| | Level Pre-K (Grade Pre-K) |
| | 1. | Not appropriate for this level |
| | Level II (Grade K-4) |
| | 1. | Creates a sequence with a beginning, middle, and ending |
| | 2. | Improvises, creates, and performs dances based on personal ideas and concepts from other sources |
| | 3. | Knows how improvisation is used to discover and invent movement and to solve movement problems |
| | 4. | Creates a dance phrase (e.g., a brief sequence of related movements that has a sense of rhythmic completion), repeats it, and varies it (e.g., makes changes in the time, space, force/energy) |
| | 5. | Uses partner skills such as copying, leading and following, and mirroring |
| | Level III (Grade 5-8) |
| | 1. | Understands the principles of contrast and transition |
| | 2. | Understands the processes of reordering (e.g., elements, such as specific movements or movement phrases, are separated from their original relationship and restructured in a different pattern) and chance (e.g., elements are specifically chosen and defined but randomly structured to create a dance or movement phrase) |
| | 3. | Understands structures or forms such as AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative |
| | 4. | Uses partner skills such as creating contrasting and complementary shapes and taking and supporting weight |
| | Level IV (Grade 9-12) |
| | 1. | Knows how improvisation is used to generate movement for choreography |
| | 2. | Understands structures or forms such as palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, and contemporary forms |
| | 3. | Identifies choreographic principles, processes, and structures used in dance |
