Dance / Foundation to Year 2

Curriculum content descriptions

Respond to dance and consider where and why people dance, starting with dances from Australia including dances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACADAR004)

Elaborations
  • identifying where they might experience dance in their lives and communities, for example, considering how dance sustains and communicates cultural knowledge
  • Considering viewpoints – evaluations: For example – Why are these people dancing? Where are they dancing? Where is this dance from?
  • recognising that dance can show that people have different feelings about the world based on their experiences of the environment and other people
  • exploring and responding to dances they make and view, for example, considering what the dance made them think about or how the dance made them feel
  • recognising patterns of movement in dances they make, perform and view using their own words and learnt dance terminology
  • Considering viewpoints – What sort of movements did the dancers perform? What are they wearing? What kind of music are they dancing to?
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Dance genres,  Artistic purpose,  Aboriginal art,  Australian art,  Torres Strait Islander art

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