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AC9ADA8D01: Year 7 The Arts Content Descriptor – Dance
AC9ADA8D01 Year 7 The Arts

AC9ADA8D01 – Year 7 The Arts: Dance

Strand
Developing practices and skills
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

develop safe dance practice and use of expressive and technical skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques

Elaborations

  • • 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
  • • exploring how expressive skills can be used to communicate ideas; for example, using gesture or facial expression to communicate relationships or emotions
  • • 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

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.