Dance

C. Cultural and Historical Connections: 1. The student demonstrates and understands dance in various cultures and historical periods.: 9-12: The student...

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knows significant historical events that have occurred in the development of dance.

Preserve,Inc http://www.preserve-inc.org/ Preserve, Inc. succeeds as a national center for dance archives information by creating the links between individual dancers and choreographers, librarians and archivists, national repositories and local networks

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understands similarities and differences between various forms of dance.

American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals Ca. 1600-1920 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another.

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understands the impact society and history have on choreographic styles and trends.

This Month in Dance History http://www.artslynx.org/dance/danchron.htm Wonderful site detailing events in history happening during the current month. Many events impacting society in one form or another.

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understands the changing role of commercial and artistic forms of dance in American culture.

Save As: Dance http://save-as-dance.org/ SAVE AS: DANCE recognizes the significant contribution that dance artists, and dance communities and their traditions have made,and continue to make, in shaping American culture. It believes that documentation, preservation, and public access extend the life of dance works, deepen the creative insight of the artist, and affirm dance’s important legacy.