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Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Explain the presentation conditions, audience response, and improvements for presenting.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate

Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate how a variety of academic, arts, and media forms and content, such as narrative, dance, and media, may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks.

Enduring Understanding: Dance performance is an interaction between performer, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.
Essential Question(s): How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Consider how to establish a formal performance space from an informal setting (e.g., gymnasium or grassy area). b. Identify, explore, and experiment with a variety of production elements to heighten the artistic intent and audience experience.

Enduring Understanding: Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.
Essential Question(s): How do dancers work with space, time and energy to communicate artistic expression?
Process Component(s): Express

Performance Standard(s):
a. Make static and dynamic shapes with positive and negative space. Perform three-dimensional movement sequences alone and with others, establishing relationships with intentionality and focus. b. Dance to a variety of rhythms generated from internal and external sources. Perform movement phrases that show the ability to respond to changes in time. c. Analyze and refine phrases by incorporating a greater range of energy and dynamic changes to heighten the effect of their intent.

Enduring Understanding: Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.
Essential Question(s): How do dancers work with space, time and energy to communicate artistic expression?
Process Component(s): Express

Performance Standard(s):
a. Integrate static and dynamic shapes as well as floor and air pathways into dance sequences. Establish relationships with other dancers with intentionality and focus. Convert inward focus to outward focus. b. Respond in movement to even and uneven rhythm in both metric and kinesthetic phrasing. Recognize and respond to tempo changes as they occur in dance and music. c. Contrast bound and free flowing movements. Initiate movements from a variety of points of the body. Analyze the relationship between initiation and energy.

Enduring Understanding: Dance performance is an interaction between performer, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.
Essential Question(s): How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate the ability to adapt dance to alternative performance venues by modifying spacing and movements to the performance space. b. Identify, explore, and select production elements that heighten and intensify the artistic intent of a dance and are adaptable for various performance spaces.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate

Performance Standard(s):
Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, associated processes, results, and improvements for presentation of media artworks.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Analyze various presentation formats, defined processes, and results to improve the presentation of media artworks.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate

Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate and rationalize how integrating multiple contents and forms, such as media, narratives and performance, can support a central idea in a media artwork.