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1.DA.Cr1 (Arts)


Standard Identifier: 1.DA.Cr1
Content Area: Arts
Grade: 1
Discipline: Dance
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
Essential Question(s): Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?
Process Component(s): Explore

Performance Standard(s):
a. Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and identify the source. b. Explore a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements by experimenting with and changing the elements of dance.

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