AC9ADA4E01 Year 3 The Arts

AC9ADA4E01 – Year 3 The Arts: Dance

Strand

Exploring and responding

Substrand

Dance

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

explore where, why and how dance is choreographed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Elaborations

• identifying meaning and describing purposes that dance can be created for; for example, exploring dances from a range of cultures from their local community and/or neighbouring countries, such as countries in Asia, that are performed for celebrations or narrative dances that share stories
• learning dances created for different purposes such as entertainment; for example, dances from a range of cultures, times or places that are/have been a dance craze or are a dance that “everyone” knows
• using Viewpoints to ask questions about dance they are experiencing, such as “Are the movements in this dance similar to movements in dances that you know?”, “Where are these dances performed?”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

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Year 3 The Arts Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students describe use of the elements of dance in dance they experience, create and/or perform. They describe where, why and/or how dance is choreographed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.Students use the elements of dance to structure dance sequences that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They demonstrate fundamental movement skills and safe dance practice. They perform their dance in informal settings.