AC9ADA10P01 Year 9 The Arts

AC9ADA10P01 – Year 9 The Arts: Dance

Strand

Presenting and performing

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

rehearse and perform dance for audiences, using technical and expressive skills and genre- or style-specific techniques

Elaborations

• planning how they can enter and leave the performance space in ways that are consistent with genre/style, mood or ideas conveyed in a dance
• using rehearsal to build confidence that they can accurately and fluently maintain spatial placement during performance of a dance
• using available production elements such as music, costume and props to enhance communication of ideas, perspectives or meaning in a performance

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.