Dance
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| Subject Name: | Dance |
| Level of Study: | Stage 1 |
| Length of Course: | 1 Year |
| Prerequisite: | Some prior experience / knowledge in Dance |
Pre-requisites
What will be in the course?
Students work on seven major assessment tasks to build skills and knowledge surrounding three key areas of study: Understanding Dance, Creating Dance, and Responding to Dance. Students progress their technique and performance skills through learning various dance combinations and choreography across a range of genres and dance styles that are performed to a live audience. In addition, students engage in research and analysis of dance in diverse contexts, evaluate and refine their own creative works as an artist, and develop their knowledge and understanding of dance skills, dance elements, structural devices, and production elements. They learn how to communicate choreographic intent through composition and performance, and work towards improving their personal development as a dancer.
How will I be assessed?
| School Assessment (100%)
Assessment Type 1: Skills Development (25%) Task 1: Choreographic Analysis Based on their individual choreography task, students will reflect on the skills and processes used to communicate choreographic intent and how they were able to translate their ideas into movement using the elements of dance and structural devices. Written: 800 words Task 2: Choreographic Analysis Based on their group choreography task, students discuss the choreographic process and reflect Interview: 5 minutes Assessment Type 2: Creative Explorations (50%) Task 1: Performance Students will participate in the learning, refining and presenting of two or more class routines across a range Task 2: Joint Choreography Construction Students will work collaboratively to explore the various elements of composition to create a short dance |