5th Grade
ARTS EDUCATION – DANCE
NORTH CAROLINA ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Creation and Performance
5.CP.1 Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that
communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
5.CP.1.1 Create short dances that use simple choreographic forms and structures (musical,
literary, or visual), and that vary the use of dance elements.
5.CP.1.2 Use collaborative skills to improvise and create dance.
5.CP.1.3 Create short dances that communicate abstract ideas.
5.CP.1.4 Generate strategies for problem solving in dance.
5.CP.2 Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus,
and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
5.CP.2.1 Execute control of body, voice, and focus necessary for effective participation in
individual and group settings in dance.
5.CP.2.2 Use kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus to enhance the performance of
dance sequences.
5.CP.2.3 Monitor personal goals to improve performance quality in dance.
Dance Movement Skills
5.DM.1 Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
5.DM.1.1 Use muscular strength, flexibility, stamina, and coordination in the development of
beginning dance technique.
5.DM.1.2 Exemplify how to maintain a sense of body shape while moving and in stillness.
5.DM.1.3 Integrate locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movement and stillness into dance
sequences through use of transitions.
5.DM.1.4 Illustrate phrasing in a selected piece of music using dance movement.
5.DM.1.5 Use a variety of spatial designs and relationships with clarity and intent while dancing.
Responding
5.R.1 Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
5.R.1.1 Analyze the relationship between dance elements when observing dance.
5.R.1.2 Illustrate the roles and responsibilities of the viewer in interpreting dances.
Connecting
5.C.1 Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
5.C.1.1 Understand how dance has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and
history of the United States.
5.C.1.2 Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.
NORTH CAROLINA ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Creation and Performance
5.CP.1 Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that
communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.
5.CP.1.1 Create short dances that use simple choreographic forms and structures (musical,
literary, or visual), and that vary the use of dance elements.
5.CP.1.2 Use collaborative skills to improvise and create dance.
5.CP.1.3 Create short dances that communicate abstract ideas.
5.CP.1.4 Generate strategies for problem solving in dance.
5.CP.2 Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus,
and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.
5.CP.2.1 Execute control of body, voice, and focus necessary for effective participation in
individual and group settings in dance.
5.CP.2.2 Use kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus to enhance the performance of
dance sequences.
5.CP.2.3 Monitor personal goals to improve performance quality in dance.
Dance Movement Skills
5.DM.1 Understand how to use movement skills in dance.
5.DM.1.1 Use muscular strength, flexibility, stamina, and coordination in the development of
beginning dance technique.
5.DM.1.2 Exemplify how to maintain a sense of body shape while moving and in stillness.
5.DM.1.3 Integrate locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movement and stillness into dance
sequences through use of transitions.
5.DM.1.4 Illustrate phrasing in a selected piece of music using dance movement.
5.DM.1.5 Use a variety of spatial designs and relationships with clarity and intent while dancing.
Responding
5.R.1 Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.
5.R.1.1 Analyze the relationship between dance elements when observing dance.
5.R.1.2 Illustrate the roles and responsibilities of the viewer in interpreting dances.
Connecting
5.C.1 Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.
5.C.1.1 Understand how dance has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and
history of the United States.
5.C.1.2 Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.