CRITERIA 2 3
Body awareness and control Demonstrates unusual
in physical strength and
other performance flexibility; Demonstrates
evaluation unusually advanced balance
activities and physical control
Movement quality Demonstrates unusually full
awareness in range of movement qualities
prepared performance (e.g. strong, gentle, bouncy,
and swinging); demonstrates
unusual ability to move with
subtlety and intensity
Movement quality Demonstrates unusually
awareness in full
other performance range of movement
evaluation qualities
activities (e.g. strong, gentle,
bouncy,
and swinging);
demonstrates
unusual ability to move
with
subtlety and intensity
Expressiveness in prepared Advanced ability to
performance communicate ideas and
feelings through
movement;
dances with unusual
expressiveness, intensity
4 5
Demonstrates above Demonstrates physical Demonstrates below
average physical strength strength and flexibility average physical strength
and flexibility; typical of peers and flexibility
Demonstrates above average
balance and
physical control
Demonstrates wide range of Demonstrates average Demonstrates below
movement qualities (e.g. range average range of
strong, gentle, bouncy, of movement qualities movement
and (e.g. qualities (e.g. strong,
swinging); demonstrates strong, gentle, bouncy, gentle,
ability to move with and bouncy, and swinging)
subtlety swinging)
and intensity
Demonstrates wide range of Demonstrates average Demonstrates below
movement qualities (e.g. range average range of
strong, gentle, bouncy, of movement qualities movement
and (e.g. qualities (e.g. strong,
swinging); demonstrates strong, gentle, bouncy, gentle,
ability to move with and bouncy, and swinging)
subtlety swinging)
and intensity
Above average ability to Average ability to Demonstrates limited
communicate ideas and communicate ideas and ability
feelings through feelings through to communicate ideas
movement movement and
feelings through
movement
 and subtlety

Expressiveness in other Advanced ability to Above average ability to

performance evaluation communicate ideas and communicate ideas and Average ability to Requires assistance to
activities feelings through feelings through communicate ideas and communicate ideas and
movement; movement feelings through feelings through
uses whole body to dance movement movement
with unusual
expressiveness, intensity
and subtlety
Emerging Typical Above Average Superior
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