AC9ADA10D01 Year 9 The Arts

AC9ADA10D01 – Year 9 The Arts: Dance

Strand

Developing practices and skills

Substrand

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.

Content Descriptor

develop and refine safe dance practice, expressive and technical skills and genre- or style-specific techniques

Elaborations

• refining technical skills in response to self-reflection to develop safe dance practice and control, accuracy, strength, balance, alignment, flexibility, endurance, coordination and articulation
• using experimentation and improvisation to develop techniques for executing expressive skills in a range of genres and/or styles
• practising and refining technical skills to develop proficiency in genre- and style-specific techniques

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASARTDANY910

Year 9 The Arts Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and/or why the elements of dance, choreographic devices, genre- or style-specific techniques, production elements, and/or technical and expressive skills are manipulated in dance they create and/or experience. They evaluate how dance works and/or performances in a range of styles and/or from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They evaluate how dance is used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity. Students select and manipulate the elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or structure to choreograph dances. They demonstrate safe dance practice when choreographing and performing dance. They employ technical and expressive skills and genre- or style-specific techniques to enhance communication of ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when performing dance for audiences.