Dance / Year 7 and 8 / Presenting and performing

Curriculum content descriptions

rehearse and perform dance for audiences, using technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate genre- or style-specific techniques (AC9ADA8P01)

Elaborations
  • planning effective use of available performance spaces during rehearsals
  • using production elements such as projection, soundscape, music, special effects or voice-overs to share key ideas or information about the creative intention of the dance with the audience
  • using technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques when performing dance they have learnt and/or choreographed
  • using rehearsal strategies or techniques such as spotting to enhance confidence, clarity of movement, projection, focus and musicality in performance
  • introducing their dance to an audience; for example, in a program note or voice-over that uses descriptive style-specific dance terminology
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Dance purpose and styles,  Dance

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