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AC9ADA10E02: Year 9 The Arts Content Descriptor – Dance
AC9ADA10E02 Year 9 The Arts

AC9ADA10E02 – Year 9 The Arts: Dance

Strand
Exploring and responding
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

investigate the ways First Nations Australian choreographers and/or performers celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through dance

Elaborations

  • • evaluating ways that First Nations Australian performers and/or choreographers are working respectfully and collaboratively with communities to explore local histories, cultures and identities
  • • investigating dance works that challenge our understandings about “first contacts” between the First Nations Peoples of Australia and people from Britain or Europe
  • • exploring the ways that First Nations Australian choreographers and/or performers use their practice to communicate ideas, messages and lived experiences to the broader community

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.