Grade 7 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.

Integrate multiple perspectives and solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theater work.

Explain and present possible solutions to design challenges in a drama/theater work.

Envision and describe a scripted or improvised character’s inner thoughts and objectives in a drama/theater work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Examine and justify original ideas and artistic choices in a drama/theater work based on background knowledge, historical, and cultural context.

Demonstrate mutual respect for self and others and their roles in preparing or devising drama/theatre work.

Connect artistic ideas to personal experience and varied perspectives.

Consider incorporating multiple perspectives and diverse community ideas in a drama/theatre work.

Examine research relevant to the drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.

Refine towards completion of artistic work.

Demonstrate focus and concentration in the rehearsal process to analyze and refine choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

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

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

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Experiment various staging choices to enhance the story in a drama/theatre work.

Apply various character objectives in a drama/theatre work.

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

Recognize how acting exercises and techniques can be applied to a drama/theatre work.

Choose a variety of technical elements that can be applied to a design in a drama/theatre work.

Connect artistic work with audience, community, and ensemble.

Incorporate music, dance, art, and/or media to heighten the connection between performer and audience in a drama/theatre work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Participate in rehearsals for a drama/theatre work that will be shared with an audience.

Critically Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Compare recorded personal and peer reactions to artistic choices in a drama/ theatre work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Identify the artistic choices made based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.

Describe how cultural perspectives can influence the evaluation of drama/theatre work.

Interpret how the use of personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs can be used to discuss drama/theatre work.

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

Research and analyze two different versions of the same drama/theatre story to determine differences and similarities in telling the story.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Explain preferences, using supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Examine the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.

Identify how the intended purpose of a drama/theatre work appeals to a specific audience.

Observe and Learn to Comprehend

Analyze works of art and visual culture, and apply the language of visual art and design, to infer meaning.

Apply the language of visual art and design to describe the aesthetic value of works of art.

Evaluate the emotional significance generated by the language of visual art and design.

Differentiate and implement the language of visual art and design when observing works of art.

Recognize and interpret works of art through the lens of time, place and culture.

Examine and articulate works of art that communicate significant cultural beliefs or sets of values.

Investigate and discuss how exposure to various cultures and styles influences feelings and emotions toward art forms.

Interpret and demonstrate how works of art synthesize historical and cultural meaning.

Employ concepts, issues and themes from other disciplines to solve visual arts problems.

Incorporate key concepts, issues and themes from other disciplines into works of art.

Explain and discuss how concepts, ideas and themes from other disciplines can be used in the visual arts.

Explain how skills, themes and key concepts from other disciplines help artists improve their work.

Envision and Critique to Reflect

Determine meaning from works of art and design using visual literacy skills such as interpretation, negotiation, appreciation and selection.

Explain and justify the visual elements artists use to express ideas in specific works of art.

Discuss, debate and negotiate possible alternative interpretations of works of art.

Utilize visual literacy skills in verbal or written discourse to construct meaning from works of art considering multiple points of view.

Utilize appropriate vocabulary in the critical analysis of works of art.

Explain the purpose of a variety of visual and conceptual elements in works of art.

Decode the meaning in works of art using visual evidence.

Invent and Discover to Create

Plan, anticipate outcomes and use feedback to grow as an artist.

Plan, revise and refine an idea.

Generate works of art based on selected themes or anticipated goals.

Identify or demonstrate changes in personal style or skill level in works of art over time.

Demonstrate technical skills and processes to achieve desired results.

Create works of art from observation, photographs and stored mental images adding personal interpretations.

Demonstrate and apply perceptual skills to create works of art.

Research and communicate personal ideas and interests in works of art.

Utilize current and available technology as a primary medium to create original works of art.

Explore ways to manipulate works of art through technology.

Utilize current and available technologies to create new forms of 2-D and 3-D art.

Relate and Connect to Transfer

Investigate how artists, designers, and scholars narrate their social context.

Design and create works of art using images, words and symbols that illustrate personal community or culture.

Analyze and explain how artists and cultures have used art to communicate ideas and identity throughout history.

Identify where the visual arts and artistic thinking are present in the real world.

Discuss and explain how the visual arts are an integral part of popular culture.

Recognize and articulate how artists and designers use critical thinking skills in the community.

Explore and evaluate ways that artistic thinking is used to solve problems in various careers.

Communicate messages about societal problems through the creative process.

Recognize and articulate how social issues influence the creation of contemporary works of art such as but not limited to the work of Mark Bradford, Pedro Reyes, Fred Wilson or street artists such as Swoon.

Create and display a work of art based on a selected social issue.