AC9ADA8D01
Years 7 to 8
The Arts
AC9ADA8D01 | Years 7 to 8 Dance: Dance
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor develop safe dance practice and use of expressive and technical skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques
Strand
Developing practices and skills
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 developing dance skills and style-specific techniques; for example, experimenting to extend their own movement vocabulary by improvising using movements and techniques from diverse dance styles
- • Elaboration exploring how expressive skills can be used to communicate ideas; for example, using gesture or facial expression to communicate relationships or emotions
- • Elaboration extending technical competence such as control, coordination, accuracy, alignment, balance, flexibility, strength, endurance and articulation when moving, in response to self, peer and/or teacher feedback
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- 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 →
- They employ technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques when performing dances for audiences.See it on the standard page →