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AC9ADA8C01 Years 7 to 8 The Arts

AC9ADA8C01 | Years 7 to 8 Dance: Dance

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor choreograph dance by selecting and manipulating elements of dance and choreographic devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
Strand
Creating and making
Substrand
Dance

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Dance. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration exploring ways to use elements of dance and choreographic devices to portray characters and stories respectfully and empathetically
  • • Elaboration experimenting with ways to use the elements of dance and choreographic devices to represent ideas about themes or issues such as social relationships through dance; for example, through improvisation
  • • Elaboration selecting movements from an improvisation, such as an improvisation focusing on communication of mood or emotion, and organising it for use in a music video or as short phrases that participants in an immersive experience such as VR can use
  • • Elaboration selecting, combining, refining and sequencing movement using choreographic devices such as transitions, variation and contrast, and choreographic forms such as binary, ternary and narrative
  • • Elaboration analysing and evaluating the structural choices made in their dance by documenting their process in records such as journals, blogs, video or audio recordings, securing permission where appropriate

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