Grade 6 Fine Arts Colorado Standards

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Demonstrate intermediate dance technique, vocabulary, and skill in various styles with a range of dynamics and emerging artistic expression.

Refine kinesthetic alignment to demonstrate appropriate and safe dance technique.

Apply the qualities required for dynamic expression in movement.

Perform movement sequences with clarity of movement, attention to detail and artistic expression.

Demonstrate alignment and control while moving.

Apply body self-awareness to safe body movement.

Examine how healthful strategies (e.g., nutrition, injury prevention, emotional health, overall functioning) and safe body-use practices are essential for the dancer.

Examine how kinesthetic principles and various body systems (e.g., cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal) relate to the dancing body.

Maintain organization and self-awareness of the body while moving (e.g., balance, coordination, flexibility, alignment, core strength).

Explore movement that develops a wide range of motion, muscular flexibility, strength, and endurance. Explore different body conditioning techniques.

Perform dances that communicate a specific intent and identify production elements that enhance performance.

Collaborate to refine dances and clearly communicate intent.

Adapt to and communicate about varying performance areas.

Identify and define various roles within a dance production.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Compare a variety of stimuli to expand movement vocabulary and artistic expression through improvisational movement.

Apply movement in various combinations.

Apply basic improvisational skills and techniques.

Identify reasons for movement and structural choices.

Adapt ideas to fit the needs of their group and community.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Create, refine, and perform dance studies which demonstrate clarity of artistic intent.

Utilize multiple movement sequences with a variety of choreographic forms and techniques.

Compare and articulate the creative choices made in choreography.

Historical and Cultural Context

Identify, demonstrate, and arrange movements and terminology consistent with various eras and cultures.

Observe and describe movements from various cultures and eras using existing knowledge.

Identify and perform movements specific to various cultures and eras.

Use era and culturally specific themes and movements in creating sequences.

Identify, with supporting evidence, historical and cultural aspects of dance.

Research historical contexts which contributed to the development of different dance styles.

Discuss movement characteristics or movement qualities in a specific era or culture.

Identify and discuss dances performed by people in various localities or communities.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Interpret meaning in dance created by self and others.

Critique self and peers’ application of stimuli, various choreographic forms, clarity of intent and artistic expression.

Compare and contrast the use of movement and choreographic structure to convey intent and meaning.

Describe specific differences and similarities among genres and artists.

Compare and contrast dance with other art forms, school subjects, professions, and the community.

Analyze the relationships between subjects such as music, visual art, language arts, math, science, and others with dance.

Analyze the similarities and differences between subjects such as music, visual art, language arts, math, science, and others with dance.

Analyze the impact of dance within individual communities.

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Demonstrate dance technique, vocabulary, and skill in various styles with proficiency and artistic expression.

Use the broadest range of movement and vocabulary possible for artistic and expressive clarity.

Demonstrate phrasing with and without musical accompaniment using multiple and complex rhythms or sounds.

Confidently perform alone and with others to establish intentional relationships with dancers and the environment.

Apply and evaluate kinesthetic awareness to create healthful practices in dance.

Research healthful strategies essential for dancers and modify personal practice based on findings.

Investigate how kinesthetic principles and various body systems, such as muscles and bones, relate to the dancing body.

Maintain optimal alignment and adjust the placement and shifting energy of the body while traveling through space.

Develop personal conditioning practices, using different body conditioning techniques, that improve range of motion, muscular flexibility, strength, and endurance to enhance performance.

Apply body-mind principles to technical dance skills in complex movement.

Create and implement production strategies that correlate with performance intention.

Analyze and re-evaluate personal goals to enhance performance strategies and practices.

Create designs for the production of a performance while selecting and executing the ideas that would intensify and heighten the intent of the dances.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances.

Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Apply and analyze movement to explore personal preferences and possibilities through improvisation.

Use improvisation tools to develop new pathways to creating and communicating.

Apply advanced improvisational skills and techniques.

Evaluate and refine personal preferences and possibilities for movement.

Adapt ideas to fit the needs of their group and community.

Demonstrate fluency in creative processes both independently and with a group.

Refine and transform choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback of others.

Develop creative process strategies that consider complex relationships of movement components and/or diverse choreographic sources for a dance composition.

Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the impact of choices made during the revision process to deepen the intention of the choreography.

Historical and Cultural Context

Compose, perform, and critique dance works that are era or culturally specific.

Discuss, embody, and describe dance technique and movement vocabulary specific to a culture.

Recognize one’s own cultural, personal, and historical biases when analyzing dance from a culture different from one’s own.

Identify commonalities and differences in dance technique and vocabulary across cultures.

Create a dance using historically and culturally specific movements.

Draw connections between cultures and eras through dance research.

Compare and synthesize contrasting viewpoints and identify the tensions between them.

Analyze dance as a reflection of culture and society.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Critique, analyze, reflect upon, and understand dance using applicable technique and vocabulary.

Analyze dances using appropriate language of movement, technical terminology, and critical response.

Articulate personal connections to a dance.

Critique the structure, technique, and choreographic intent of a dance.

Analyze and demonstrate the connections between other art forms, school subjects, professions, and community roles with dance.

Analyze and synthesize the use of school subjects such as music, visual art, language arts, math, science, and others and in dance.

Discover and analyze career opportunities integrating dance with the surrounding communities.

Demonstrate and articulate how communities and dance impact each other

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Demonstrate developing dance technique, vocabulary and skills in various styles while displaying a wide range of movement dynamics and exploring artistic expression.

Use focus of eyes while demonstrating a range of movement and vocabulary.

Perform dance phrases of different lengths that use various tempos and rhythms.

Embody technical dance skills to explore artistic expression.

Perform movements in relation to other dancers, objects, and environment.

Embody alignment and control while moving.

Examine how healthful strategies (e.g., nutrition, injury prevention, emotional health, overall functioning) and safe body-use practices are essential for the dancer.

Examine how kinesthetic principles and various body systems (e.g., cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal) relate to the dancing body.

Maintain organization and self-awareness of the body while moving (e.g., balance, coordination, flexibility, alignment, core strength).

Explore movement that develops a wide range of motion, muscular flexibility, strength, and endurance. Explore different body conditioning techniques.

Identify and explore production strategies that correlate with performance intention.

Articulate personal performance goals and practice to reach goals.

Collaborate with peers to enhance dance choreography and performance.

Apply production terminology and collaborate to design and execute production elements that contribute to the artistic intent of a dance performance.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Use contrasting stimuli to develop artistic expression through improvisational movement.

Arrange movement to convey artistic intent.

Apply intermediate improvisational skills and techniques.

Select and justify personal preferences for movement and structural choices.

Adapt ideas to fit the needs of their group and community.

Exploring different creative processes both independently and with a group that shows intent.

Implement movement from a variety of stimuli to develop an original piece of choreography.

Articulate the creative process used for making choreography.

Revise choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback of others.

Historical and Cultural Context

Arrange, demonstrate, and critique era and culturally specific movement sequences.

Discuss, embody, and describe dance technique and movement vocabulary specific to a culture.

Communicate how dances from a variety of cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities reveal the ideas and perspectives of people.

Use era and culturally specific themes and movements in creating sequences.

Recognize one’s own cultural, personal, and historical biases when analyzing dance from a culture different from one’s own.

Identify, with supporting evidence, historical and cultural aspects of two or more dance forms.

Analyze and discuss how dances from a variety of cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities reveal the ideas and perspectives of the people.

Formulate possible reasons why similarities and differences in movement are developed in relation to the ideas and perspectives of the people.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Reflect upon the meaning of dance created by others and explain the intent of dance created by oneself.

Respond to dances using appropriate dance language.

Explain how artistic expression is achieved through relationships between movement, dance technique and context.

Cite evidence in the dance to support their interpretations using dance terminology.

Identify the choreographic structure, cultural origin, and technique of the dance viewed.

Identify how other art forms, school subjects, professions, and community roles are used in dance.

Demonstrate the use of school subjects such as music, visual art, language arts, math, science, and others and in dance.

Investigate career opportunities in dance.

Predict how dance impacts communities.

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Demonstrate developing dance technique, vocabulary, and skills in various styles with emerging artistic expression.

Use a range of movement and vocabulary to demonstrate artistic expression.

Demonstrate phrasing with and without musical accompaniment using various rhythms and sounds.

Perform with others to establish relationships with dancers and the environment.

Identify and apply anatomical principles and healthful practices to a range of technical dance skills.

Evaluate and apply healthful strategies (e.g., nutrition, injury prevention, emotional health, overall functioning) and safe body-use practices that are essential for the dancer.

Demonstrate anatomical terms (e.g., muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, joint articulations) as they relate to dance. Apply kinesthetic principles and various body systems.

Demonstrate body coordination while moving (e.g., balance, coordination, flexibility, alignment, core strength).

Explore movement that develops a wide range of motion, muscular flexibility, strength, and endurance. Explore different body conditioning techniques.

Develop production strategies that correlate with performance intention.

Create and apply personal goals to enhance performance strategies and practices.

Collaborate with peers on rehearsal processes.

Evaluate possible designs for the production elements of a performance and select and execute the ideas that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the dances.

Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Experiment with movement to explore personal preferences and possibilities through improvisation.

Investigate individual connections with movement.

Apply intermediate/advanced improvisational skills and techniques.

Evaluate personal preferences and possibilities for movement.

Adapt ideas to fit the needs of their group and community.

Demonstrate creative processes both independently and with a group.

Refine choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback of others.

Analyze the process and the relationship between the stimuli and the movement.

Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Historical and Cultural Context

Arrange, perform, and critique era and culturally specific movement sequences.

Discuss, embody, and describe dance technique and movement vocabulary specific to a culture.

Recognize one’s own cultural, personal, and historical biases when analyzing dance from a culture different from one’s own.

Identify commonalities and differences in dance technique and vocabulary across cultures.

Use era and culturally specific themes and movements in creating sequences.

Research and differentiate cultural and historical dance forms and traditions.

Compare and contrast dance from different cultures across time.

Analyze cultural traditions and historical eras as represented through dance.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Critique and respond to dance with awareness of vocabulary and technique.

Respond to dances using appropriate language of movement and technical terminology.

Reflect on personal connections to the dance.

Analyze the structure, technique, and choreographic intent of the dance viewed.

Demonstrate the connections between other art forms, school subjects, professions, and community roles with dance.

Integrate the use of school subjects such as music, visual art, language arts, math, science, and others and in dance.

Investigate career opportunities integrating dance with the surrounding communities.

Articulate connections between dance and their social activities and communities.

Create

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Identify possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Identify possible solutions to design challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Explore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Analyze to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Contribute ideas and accept and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising a drama/theatre work.

Connect artistic ideas to personal experience and varied perspectives.

Explain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama/theatre work impact perspectives of self, community, or culture.

Investigate the time period and place of a drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.

Refine towards completion of artistic work.

Examine and articulate choices to refine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Identify and employ effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Explore a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Identify the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a drama/theatre work.

Experiment with various physical and vocal choices to communicate character in a drama/theatre work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques, choices, and work for presentation.

Participate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques that can be applied in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

Articulate how technical elements are integrated into a drama/theatre work.

Connect artistic work with audience, community, and ensemble.

Establish a relationship with the audience and the ensemble during a performance of a drama/theatre work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Adapt a drama/theatre work and present it for an audience.

Critically Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Explain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.

Identify cultural perspectives that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

Identify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of drama/theatre work.

Connect artistic experiences to our world; past, present, and future.

Research the story elements of a staged drama/theatre work and compare them to another production of the same work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Analyze the production elements used in a drama/theatre work to assess aesthetic choices.

Identify a specific audience or purpose for a drama/theatre work.

Observe and Learn to Comprehend

Apply the language of visual art and design to distinguish and differentiate meanings.

Respond verbally or in written format justifying and interpreting a work of art using the language of art and design.

Develop from oneself and various cultures a mental storehouse of images and the uses, symbolism and meaning of those images.

Compare art from various historical, contemporary and cultural sources.

Describe and discuss the general characteristics of a work of art from various historical time periods.

Interpret a variety of works of art while being respectful and mindful of culturally sensitive themes.

Analyze works of art from various time periods and world cultures by their components of style and design.

Evaluate how interpretations of works of art change based on the viewer’s time, place and culture.

Utilize key concepts, issues and themes to connect the visual arts to other disciplines.

Identify skills, ideas and themes in the visual arts that are influenced by other content areas.

Create works of art using skills from other disciplines.

Envision and Critique to Reflect

Interpret meaning and evaluate works of visual art and design recognizing diverse points of view.

Interpret meaning in works of art from a variety of perspectives.

Research and compare works of art from different times and places.

Describe, analyze and interpret works of art using specific art vocabulary.

Describe and analyze works of art using the language of visual art and design.

Explain the visual qualities of a specified work of art from multiple points of view.

Invent and Discover to Create

Plan the creation of a work of art utilizing feedback.

Use feedback from peers to plan and create works of art.

Propose revisions to works of art using the language of visual art and design.

Evaluate redirection and revision during the creative process.

Explore various media, materials and techniques used to create works of visual art and design.

Recognize and utilize the individual characteristics of each medium.

Identify and differentiate the relationships between media choice, art processes and final solutions.

Create and display works of art using a wide variety of contemporary and available media.

Utilize current and available technology to refine ideas in works of art.

Evaluate various technological processes used to make art.

Recognize and discuss how technology operates in the creation of works of art.

Relate and Connect to Transfer

Infer from works of visual art, design, and visual culture using interdisciplinary knowledge, how diverse communities address issues relevant to their culture, place, and times.

Explain and create works of art that incorporate everyday life, traditions, customs and special events.

Draw conclusions from representations of ancestry in works of art.

Identify and explain cross-disciplinary connections in works of art.

Investigate art and other careers that use creative and design thinking.

Investigate how art is incorporated into contemporary careers.

Research an art-related career of personal interest.

Explain the contributions that art historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers of art, engineers, computer designers, software engineers or others make to their community and society as a whole.

Investigate how art addresses contemporary issues and community and societal concerns.

Display research about artists that engage in social commentary.

Research the motivation for works of art that address social issues.