Length: Semester
Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 8 Performing Arts
Content:
In Year 9 Dance, students will develop, create, explore, analyse, reflect and perform. Students will explore and choreograph dances by manipulating and combining the elements of dance, choreographic devices, and production elements to communicate choreographic intent. They will rehearse and perform dances, demonstrating technical and expressive skills appropriate to the genre and style. Student will evaluate the impact of dance from different cultures, places and times in Australian dance.
Dance develops individuals to be reflective thinkers who can pose and solve problems and work both independently and collaboratively. As students engage with dance practices, they develop imaginative ways to make meaning of the world.
Dance has its own movement vocabulary and specific techniques and processes that students learn and apply to their own work as a dancer and choreographer and use to interpret, understand, and appreciate the work of others.
Year 9 Dance will focus on developing the fundamental skills of both performance and choreographic specific skills. Students will be provided with the opportunity to gain experience in a theatre setting, with a final performance in front of a live audience.
Assessment:
Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.