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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 leadership qualities (e.g. commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Implement performance practices to enhance projection. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production terminology. b. Work collaboratively to produce a dance concert on a stage or in an alternative performance venue and plan the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works.

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 leadership qualities (e.g. commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Enhance performance using a broad repertoire of strategies for dynamic projection. Develop a professional portfolio that documents the rehearsal and performance process with fluency in professional dance terminology and production terminology. b. Work collaboratively to produce dance concerts in a variety of venues and design and organize the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works in each of the venues.

Enduring Understanding: Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its meaning.
Essential Question(s): How is a dance understood?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in dance in context of artistic intent. b. Explain how dance communicates aesthetic and cultural values in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Enduring Understanding: Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its meaning.
Essential Question(s): How is a dance understood?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze dance works and provide examples of recurring patterns of movement and their relationships that create structure and meaning in dance. b. Analyze how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent within a cultural context. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Enduring Understanding: Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its meaning.
Essential Question(s): How is a dance understood?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze dance works from a variety of dance genres and styles and explain how recurring patterns of movement and their relationships create well-structured and meaningful choreography. b. Analyze and compare the movement patterns and their relationships in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices and explain how their differences impact communication and intent within a cultural context. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Use identified generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Strategically utilize generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, and refine artistic goals to increase originality in media arts creation processes.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Integrate aesthetic principles with a variety of generative methods to fluently form original ideas, solutions, and innovations in media arts creation processes.

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):
Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience and experiential design.

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):
Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transmedia productions, that retain thematic integrity and stylistic consistency.