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AC9ADA8C02: Year 7 The Arts Content Descriptor – Dance
AC9ADA8C02 Year 7 The Arts

AC9ADA8C02 – Year 7 The Arts: Dance

Strand
Creating and making
Substrand
Dance

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

apply technical and expressive skills and/or genre- or style-specific techniques to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

  • • applying technical skills such as strength, balance or coordination to intensify communication of mood/atmosphere in a dance they are choreographing and/or performing
  • • responding to feedback to enhance communication of choreographic intent to the audience; for example, by refining use of technical skills such as accuracy or flexibility
  • • using questions based on Viewpoints to evaluate clarity of movement, projection, focus and musicality when preparing for a performance, and using video to evaluate and refine spatial placement or articulation

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASARTDANY78
Year 7 The Arts Achievement Standard
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. They evaluate the ways that 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 describe respectful approaches to creating, performing and/or responding to dance.Students manipulate the elements of dance and choreographic devices to choreograph dance that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meanings. They demonstrate safe dance practice when choreographing and performing dance. They employ technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques when performing dances for audiences.