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Dance / Year 7 and 8

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Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Curriculum content descriptions

Combine elements of dance and improvise by making literal movements into abstract movements (ACADAM013)

Elaborations

experimenting with realistic movements, that is everyday movement, for example, exaggerating the movement of a single body part such as the arm in brushing hair or eating spaghetti, and blurring this into abstract movements, and responding to each other’s movement ideas
analysing dances from a range of times and locations, and considering how a single realistic movement can be manipulated from representational to symbolic
using the elements of dance to develop new movements that still maintain the essence of the original movement
Considering viewpoints – meanings and interpretations: For example – What was the choreographer’s stated intent for this dance? What ideas did you think the dance expressed?

General capabilities

Critical and creative thinking

ScOT terms

Literal movements, Abstract movements

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