Manitoba Education
Understanding Dance in Context (DA-U3) »
Students demonstrate understanding of the roles, purposes, and meanings of dance in the lives of individuals and in communities.
Students who have achieved expectations for this grade are able to
| Kindergarten | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 |
| identify when and why people dance in daily life (e.g., for storytelling, celebrating, exercising, learning, communicating ideas, socializing)
K-2 DA-U3.1 |
explain a variety of purposes and roles for dance in own community and in other places and times
3-4 DA-U3.1 |
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| demonstrate awareness of the intended meanings and/or purposes of dances encountered in own performance and viewing experiences (e.g., representations of nature in Aboriginal hoop dancing, coal mining in the Japanese dance Tanko Bushi)
K-4 DA-U3.3 |
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| demonstrate appreciation of dance as a means of experiencing and exploring own and others’ lives (e.g., feelings, values, stories, events, cultures)
K-4 DA-U3.4 |
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| demonstrate awareness that different groups of people may have their own characteristic dance (ideally, this awareness extends to the dance of own cultural or social groups) K-4 DA-U3.5 |
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| engage and/or interact appropriately as participant, audience member, and performers
K-4 DA-U3.7 |
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