Dance / Year 7 and 8 / Creating and making

Curriculum content descriptions

apply technical and expressive skills and/or genre- or style-specific techniques to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9ADA8C02)

Elaborations
  • applying technical skills such as strength, balance or coordination to intensify communication of mood/atmosphere in a dance they are choreographing and/or performing
  • responding to feedback to enhance communication of choreographic intent to the audience; for example, by refining use of technical skills such as accuracy or flexibility
  • using questions based on Viewpoints to evaluate clarity of movement, projection, focus and musicality when preparing for a performance, and using video to evaluate and refine spatial placement or articulation
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms

Eye contact,  Dance purpose and styles,  Performance dance,  Audiences,  Facial expressions,  Dance composition,  Dance

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