AC9ADA10C01 – Year 9 The Arts: Dance

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.

Elaborations

• • experimenting with ways to use and combine choreographic devices, such as addition and diminution, force and tempo or by using different body parts
• • 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
• • 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
• • developing movement motifs and using choreographic devices or manipulating the elements of dance in innovative ways to communicate their choreographic intent
• • 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
• • using a style-specific form such as a form associated with a culturally specific dance genre/style, to structure a dance

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: