AC9ADA10C01 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

choreograph dance that communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning by selecting and manipulating elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or structure

Elaborations

• 1 experimenting with ways to use and combine choreographic devices, such as addition and diminution, force and tempo or by using different body parts
• 2 using questions based on Viewpoints relating to forms and elements; such as “How can I use and manipulate the elements of space and dynamics to convey my ideas?”, for example, when choreographing a dance that conveys ideas, perspectives or meaning about identity, belonging or a social justice issue
• 3 investigating the use of the elements of dance in works of artists from different cultures, times and places, and adapting dance ideas to create movements that represent a synthesis of influences and present a personal meaning or perspective, using respectful dance practice
• 4 developing movement motifs and using choreographic devices or manipulating the elements of dance in innovative ways to communicate their choreographic intent
• 5 using motifs from a known dance as the starting point for their own choreography; for example, identifying and improvising on movements from a dance being shared via a social media platform to develop ideas that can be extended and structured into new work
• 6 using a style-specific form such as a form associated with a culturally specific dance genre/style, to structure a dance

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