Dance / Year 3 and 4 / Presenting and performing

Curriculum content descriptions

practise and perform dances in informal settings (AC9ADA4P01)

Elaborations
  • using expressive skills such as projection and focus to communicate dance ideas to an audience; for example, looking out and up to the ceiling and extending movements outwards to express a feeling of joy
  • presenting their dance using screen-based technologies or through an online platform such as a school learning management system
  • being an attentive audience member during class performances and providing constructive feedback to peers
  • sharing with others the meaning and intended purposes of their own dance; for example, in a class debrief discussion after a performance; using their own words, images and some learnt dance terminology or responding through movement or by drawing (visual)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Dance purpose and styles,  Audiences,  Dance,  Social dance

Interactive

Storytelling through dance

Students will learn about how visual images can inspire dance and using expressive qualities to communicate these ideas. Students will also have the opportunity to reflect on their own work.

Interactive

Disco dancing

Explore the elements of dance to develop locomotor and non-locomotor movement skills, disco style shapes and expressive qualities.

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