Dance / Year 7 and 8 / Creating and making

Curriculum content descriptions

choreograph dance by selecting and manipulating elements of dance and choreographic devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9ADA8C01)

Elaborations
  • exploring ways to use elements of dance and choreographic devices to portray characters and stories respectfully and empathetically
  • experimenting with ways to use the elements of dance and choreographic devices to represent ideas about themes or issues such as social relationships through dance; for example, through improvisation
  • selecting movements from an improvisation, such as an improvisation focusing on communication of mood or emotion, and organising it for use in a music video or as short phrases that participants in an immersive experience such as VR can use
  • selecting, combining, refining and sequencing movement using choreographic devices such as transitions, variation and contrast, and choreographic forms such as binary, ternary and narrative
  • analysing and evaluating the structural choices made in their dance by documenting their process in records such as journals, blogs, video or audio recordings, securing permission where appropriate
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Dance,  Dance composition

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