Dance / Year 9 and 10 / Presenting and performing

Curriculum content descriptions

rehearse and perform dance for audiences, using technical and expressive skills and genre- or style-specific techniques (AC9ADA10P01)

Elaborations
  • planning how they can enter and leave the performance space in ways that are consistent with genre/style, mood or ideas conveyed in a dance
  • using rehearsal to build confidence that they can accurately and fluently maintain spatial placement during performance of a dance
  • using available production elements such as music, costume and props to enhance communication of ideas, perspectives or meaning in a performance
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Eye contact,  Dance purpose and styles,  Art exhibitions,  Audiences,  Dance,  Facial expressions,  Cultural contexts,  Exhibits,  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

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West African dance

Students perform, reflect and appreciate dance with a West African cultural context.

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Are you supercali – coordinated?

A dance challenge to learn and perform the fun choreography to Mary Poppins’ supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and then see if others you know can also learn and perform it.

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Firebird forensics

Discover more about dance by using stimulus as a starting point for dance composition and explore the elements of dance to communicate the idea of a Firebird.

Interactive

Litefeet

Learn an upbeat hip hop routine from the 2019 Schools Spectacular. Explore dance technique in the performance of a specific dance style and utilise a variety of spatial, temporal and dynamic features in a dance.

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In class with the Mark Morris Dance Group

Explore contemporary training techniques used by the Mark Morris Dance Group. Learn about the correct body alignment and placement while executing movement and the performance of dance movement with an awareness of self. Also learn repertoire from the company.

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Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools

The Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools are applicable to schools intending to develop activities that involve the use of Koorie cultural expressions, including stories, songs, instrumental music, dances, plays, ceremonies, rituals, performances, symbols, drawings, designs, paintings, poetry, ...