Dance / Year 1 and 2 / Presenting and performing

Curriculum content descriptions

share dance sequences in informal settings (AC9ADA2P01)

Elaborations
  • presenting a learned sequence of movements or performing dances they have learnt to peers and teachers
  • performing a dance they have co-created with a First Nations Australian person who has cultural authority, and following protocols to ensure they are using any Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property with permission
  • expressing ideas to an audience through movement; for example, showing contrasting dynamics by stamping heavily and tip­toeing lightly or using movement qualities, such as slow controlled sinking to the floor to express melting ice or sharp jerky movement to express a robot
  • using Viewpoints to develop questions when responding to dances they experience in order to reflect on their choreography and/or performance; for example, “What did this dance make you think about?”, “Did the dance movements remind you of anything?”, “How did you communicate the ideas or intention in this dance?”
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Audiences,  Movement sequences,  Dance composition,  Social dance,  Dance

Interactive

The Wild West

Students learn about the Wild West through creative arts. They explore dance and music with simple movement combinations and clapping to a beat. They also create a sunset landscape artwork.

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Indigenous Australian collection

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