MUST BE TYPED

CSUDH KIN 447 D. Martin

NAME: Gabriela Martinez

READING/DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT #2 (10 pts total)
List = 5 pts, Discussion in class = 5 pts
Topic: VAPA Framework pages 124-135
1. I think that although some may think that dance amounts merely to learning the steps, they should
acknowledge that to become conversant with the ideas and expressions that embody dance, students must
develop certain skills.
2. I think that the generations and in many cultures have danced socially to entertain one another, communicate
their deepest feelings and emotions, and celebrate their humanity.
3. Learning about dance embodies control, perception, flexibility, and rhythm along with an awareness of ones
movements within an environment.
4. When students become more skillful in dancing students define, embellish, pattern, exaggerate, repeat, and
coordinate their ordinary bodily movements with other movements and gestures,
5. Through direct experience in a well-planned dance education program, students grow understand dance and
its elements.
6. Students gain skills, and knowledge, and they advance through the grades it is a discipline separate from
physical education.
7. The physical experiences students have when they practice dance techniques increase their artistic
perception of the elements of dance, including time, space, and force or energy.
8. Instruction focuses on kinesthetic awareness, movement communication skills, capacity for movement
response, and motor efficiency through multisensory activities.
9. Students use intuition and imagination to express emotion and communicate meaning as they participate in
dance.
10. It is important to encouraged individual creativity to develop students, and they will explore movement in
spontaneous and structured assignments.
11. It is important that students communicate through physical movement, as they learn more about the body as
an instrument of artistic expression.
12. Students learn to appreciate their bodies and care for them through proper conditioning, warm-ups, dance
technique, rest, and nutrition.
13. It is important that students understand dance history to help them recognize and appreciate cultural
differences and commonalities.
14. Through the study of the history of dance, students can examine historical and cultural concepts, events, and
themes in diverse contexts.
15. Students whom receive dance instruction learn through creative movement. Movement requires the
dancer to listen, to observe and imitate the teacher, to watch other dancers, and recognize spatial relationships;
in kinesthetic children move in new and familiar ways; they develop a greater awareness of their bodies.
16. Students experience a variety of dance forms helping them understand dance vocabulary.
17. By attending regular dance classes and participating in other dance education programs, students acquire
more extensive knowledge of dance, develop dance skills, and expand their creative potential.
18. They also study dance forms from many cultures and time periods in cultural and historical context.
19. Students learn the language of dance; they advance to innovative and challenging experiences.
20. Students In groups collaborate, and develop criteria for choreograph, stage, and performing involving solos,
duets, or ensembles. The criteria include originality, unity, clarity of intent, and dynamic range of movement.