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Dance / Year 5 and 6 / Developing practices and skills
Curriculum content descriptions
develop and practise technical and expressive skills using safe dance practice and the elements of dance (AC9ADA6D01)
Elaborations
- improvising new movement to communicate ideas in response to stimulus; for example, exploring how they can use different body parts, zones, bases and elements of dance to communicate/represent ideas about overcrowded cities; for example, groups of dancers in close proximity to each other
- developing technical and expressive skills to refine their execution of fundamental movements such as galloping, jumping, sliding, rolling, slithering, spinning, shrinking, exploding or collapsing
- developing expressive skills of focus, clarity of the movement, confidence and facial expression/character
- exploring an element of dance; for example, experimenting with shapes and considering ideas such as positive and negative space or use of contrasting dynamics
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Eye contact, Safe dance practices, Fundamental movement skills, Locomotor skills, Audiences, Human movement, Dance, Facial expressions, Movement sequences, Dance composition, Balancing (Motor coordination), Non-locomotor movement