AC9ADA2E01 Years 1 to 2 The Arts

Content descriptor explore where, why and how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience dance

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying features of dances that communicate cultural knowledge, such as stories, traditions or dances used in ceremonies
• • Elaboration using Viewpoints to ask questions about dances they experience; for example, “What sort of movements did the dancers perform?”, “What are they wearing?”, “What kind of music are they dancing to?”, “How are they communicating the ideas or intentions in this dance?”
• • Elaboration recognising and describing patterns of movement in dances, using their own words and learnt dance terminology
• • Elaboration identifying similarities and differences in dances by sharing, viewing and/or learning dances that they are familiar with or have experienced with their families and communities
• • Elaboration identifying how dance can show what feelings people have about places, people or experiences