DANCE PERFORMANCE
Excellent Good
Knowledge of
Choreography
Memory of the routine and
execution of the moves
looks true to the moves
that were choreographed.
Technical skills
Pointing toes, back straight,
arm placement is not
sloppy, moves are executed
smoothly.
Performance Skills
Projection of eye contact
and cheerful facial
expressions with the
judges. The dancer is
confident with movements.
Rhythm/Tempo
Staying on count and with
the beats of the music.
Acceptable Partial Minimal
100-90pts 90-80 pts 80-70pts 70-60 pts 60-50 pts
Excellent Good Acceptable Partial Minimal
Demonstrates Demonstrates good Demonstrates Demonstrates some Remembers a few of
excellent knowledge of knowledge of knowledge of knowledge of the steps/ movements
the choreography. choreography. Keeps choreography. Keeps choreography, but and tries, but looks
and does it well. up with group. Few up with group. Some unsure of some lost and out of sync
errors, however it errors(3-5 errors) movements. with others.
does not interfere with causing brief pause in Sometimes hesitates/
performance. performance. watches others and
makes several errors
Excellent Good Acceptable Partial Minimal
Dance performed with Dance performed with Dance performed with Only some Although remembers
great attention to attention to details of attention to most understanding of some of dance, little
quality of movement, technique, has details of technique, technical elements (ie. attention paid to how
body position, attained proficiency in but hasn't attained footwork, quality of movements are done
placement on stage dance style. proficiency in dance movements, body or other details of
and other details of style yet. Some positions) dance.
dance. Also technical errors. demonstrated in
demonstrates an performance.
excellent
understanding of
dance style.
Excellent Good Acceptable Partial Minimal
The dancer draws the The dancer The dancer The dancer is The dancer is not very
judge in to want to communicates with communicates with generally focused, but focused on making
watch them and is audience/judges audience/judges only some attempt eye contact,
able to engage the through eye contact through eye contact made to grab concentrated or
audience completely and facial and body and facial and body attention of the judges committed to
through their expression. Is able to expression. with eye contact and performance.
performance. A true engage the judges. Occasionally loses good facial
joy to watch! focus. expression.
Excellent Good Acceptable Partial Minimal
Shows a complete Accurate in beat, Generally accurate in Shows a basic Attempts to keep a
understanding of tempo, rhythms of beat, tempo, rhythms understanding of rhythm, but gets off
tempo and beat and dance sequences of dance sequences tempo and beat, but beat and speeds up or
stays on rhythm throughout the most of the time. falls behind and/or falls behind often.
throughout the dance. speeds up in places or Doesn't follow beat in
dance. makes errors in music.
rhythm.
 Poor Fair
10 pts 8 pts
Quality of Content Poor Fair
Chapter content is not accurately portrayed. Chapter content is accurately
portrayed as either effective or
Incomplete coverage of the topic. A student ineffective.
who wanted to develop this skill would not
find this presentation to be effective. Adequate coverage of the topic.
A student would need to do
more research to develop this
skill.
Quality of Scenario Poor Fair
Scenario was not realistic, inappropriate for Scenario was realistic and class-
class, or poorly developed. appropriate,
Scenario failed to incorporate course Course concepts could be
concepts. identified.
Organization Poor Fair
Presentation was not well-organized. Presentation was fairly well-
organized.
The transitions between the role-plays and
the narrator and other presentation The transitions between the
components were poor. role-plays and the narrator and
other presentation components
flowed smoothly at most times.
Impact Poor Fair
Presentation failed to engage the student Presentation engaged the
audience. student audience.
Presentation would not be helpful to Presentation may provide some
students. helpful information to students.
Presentation would be difficult for students Students who follow the advice
to use. in the presentation could
develop skills with additional
research.
Presentation Skills Poor Fair
None of the presenters spoke with Most presenters spoke with
appropriate eye contact, volume, tone, use appropriate eye contact, volume,
of pauses, and gestures. tone, use of pauses, and
gestures.
None of the presenters appeared prepared
or confident. Most presenters were well-
prepared and spoke with
confidence.
Good
6 pts
Good
Chapter content is accurately portrayed as
either effective or ineffective.
Complete coverage of the topic. A student
could develop multiple aspects of the skill
with this resource.
Good
Scenario was realistic, class-appropriate,
well-developed.
Scenario clearly incorporated course
concepts.
Good
Presentation was well-organized.
The transitions between the role-plays and
the narrator and other presentation
components flowed smoothly.
Good
Presentation fully engaged the student
audience.
Presentation would be helpful to students
in developing skills.
Presentation would be easy for students to
learn from.
Students who follow the advice in this
presentation would be effective.
Good
All presenters spoke with appropriate eye
contact, volume, tone, use of pauses, and
gestures.
All presenters were well-prepared and
spoke with confidence.