AC9ADA10D02 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.

reflect on own and others’ use of the elements of dance, choreographic devices, structure, genre- or style-specific techniques and/or technical and expressive skills to inform their choreographic or performance choices

Elaborations

• 1 using questions based on Viewpoints to reflect on and evaluate use of forms and elements; for example, “How can I use and manipulate the elements of space and dynamics to convey my ideas?”
• 2 evaluating choreographic and/or performance choices; for example, “How successful were the dancers in conveying the choreographer’s stated intent?” or “What was the impact of the performer’s choice to use gesture to communicate emotion?”
• 3 documenting their creative process, including the use of analysis and evaluation strategies, in reflective records
• 4 improvising using the elements of dance and analysing movement choices to reflect their individuality and to clarify their choreographic intent
• 5 considering how they can use the elements of dance and choreographic devices to reflect ways that meaning and experiences, political statements, critical theories or emotions influence and shape their approach to dance

Related Achievement Standards