Dance
Dance is dynamic and powerful. It embodies our ideas, thoughts, emotions and values and provides a unique opportunity to develop physically, creatively, aesthetically, emotionally and intellectually.
The Dance course develops and presents ideas through a variety of genres, styles and forms, as it provides a unique way in which to express our cultural view and understanding of the world. Our students will gain an understanding of the physical competencies specific to dance, while learning to use the body as a medium for artistic expression. Students reflect on, respond to, and evaluate how dance styles and forms are historically derived and culturally valued.In performing dance, technical, design and expressive skills are incorporated and developed.
Through participation in the Dance course, our students develop transferable skills essential to their future. These include communication skills, collaborative teamwork skills, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, problem solving skills, as well as the ability to organise, analyse and evaluate. Participation may lead to opportunities for future study in dance or related arts fields.
DANCE
This is a high energy fun filled course that will give the students a chance to try different genres of popular Dance. The course will provide students with the basic fundamental skills and technique of Dance. Areas covered include Arts skills and Processes as well as Arts Responses. It is possible that the students will have an outside specialist to give special dance skills.
Most classes will include Dance technique and the opportunity to create movement sequences within small groups.
DANCE
This is the first course of dance in a series of four, and provides the student with a background in the fundamental skills and technique of dance. Students will explore genres of Jazz, Funk, Lyrical and Hip Hop. Areas covered include the Australian Curriculum: Making and Responding. It is possible that students have an outside specialist to give special dance skills.
Most classes will include technique and the opportunity to create movement sequences in these dance styles. Students also learn safe dance practice, dance’s place in society, and the development of a dance genre through history. Student’s will have the opportunity to perform to an audience each semester.
CIRCUS ACROBATICS
The Circus course is a high energy course that focuses on acrobatic skills and equipment manipulation. The acrobatic skills covered include individual, partner and group stunts, and focus on a range of skills such as strength and flexibility. Equipment used includes unicycle, juggling balls, diabolos, hoops, and much more. There may be opportunity for an excursion to a circus acrobatics company.
Classes will include activities about safety, technique, and learning skills to create routines in groups. Students will have the opportunity to perform to an audience each semester.
DANCE
This course extends a student’s repertoire of skills and technique in Jazz, Lyrical, Funk and Contemporary dance. The specific skills and processes of composition & choreography will be a focal point as we explore dance in our modern Australian society. Students will explore using aspects of technology in their own choreography, as well as the use of props to create a story. Students will perform for an audience at the end of each semester, and there will be the possibility of guest choreographers during the year to teach special skills.
CIRCUS ACROBATICS
An extension of the skills learnt the previous year, this course will provide students the opportunity to refine their acrobatic and equipment manipulation skills. Focus will be on combining these skills to create one piece of movement and entertainment. There may be opportunity for an excursion to a circus acrobatics company.
Classes will include activities about safety, technique, and learning skills to create routines in groups. Students will have the opportunity to perform to an audience each semester.
DANCE GENERAL
The Dance General course acknowledges the interrelationship between practical and theoretical aspects of dance – the making and performing of movement and the appreciation of its meaning. Through decision-making in individual and group work, students use a wide range of creative processes, such as improvisation and the use of choreographic elements and devices to create dance works. They also learn how dance styles and forms are historically derived and culturally valued. Through dance, students experience an intrinsic sense of enjoyment and have an opportunity to achieve a high level of movement skills. The course is divided into two main content areas; Performance and Contextual KnowledgeThe course has a focus on’ ‘Exploring the Components of Dance’ and ‘Dance for Entertainment’. Practical work is the main focus of this unit with 70% of the course being practical.
DANCE GENERAL
The Dance General course acknowledges the interrelationship between the practical and theoretical aspects of dance. Through critical decision making in individual and group work, movement is manipulated and refined to reflect the choreographer’s intent. Students use a wide range of creative processes, such as improvisation and the use of choreographic elements and devices, and draw on their own physicality and the interpretation of existing work of others to make dance works. As a physical art form, dance is able to offer an opportunity for them to achieve a high level of movement skills. They learn about the origins of dance and its importance as a form of expression and that it can represent a variety of political, cultural and historical motivations. Through participation in the Dance General course, students develop transferable skills essential to their future. These include communication skills, collaborative teamwork skills, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, problem solving skills, as well as the ability to organise, analyse and evaluate. Participation may lead to opportunities for future study in dance or related arts fields. The course is divided into two main content areas; ‘Popular Culture’ and ‘Australian Dance’.
