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
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 8, students analyse how the elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or production elements are manipulated in dance they create and/or experience.See it on the standard page →
- Students manipulate the elements of dance and choreographic devices to choreograph dance that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meanings.See it on the standard page →
- They demonstrate safe dance practice when choreographing and performing dance.See it on the standard page →