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AC9ADA8E01: Year 7 The Arts Content Descriptor – Dance
AC9ADA8E01 Year 7 The Arts

AC9ADA8E01 – Year 7 The Arts: Dance

Strand
Exploring and responding
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

investigate ways that dance works, performers and/or choreographers across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts use the elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or production elements to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

  • • analysing dances from a range of times and locations, such as dances from times they are studying in History or dance from a country or region in Asia, and considering how a single realistic movement can be manipulated from representational to symbolic (literal to abstract)
  • • investigating the development of dance styles in different artistic, social, environmental, historical or cultural contexts; for example, identifying the distinguishing stylistic features of dances in a range of styles or from a range of times or places, and considering how these can inform their choreography
  • • using Viewpoints to explore questions such as “What was the choreographer’s intention for this dance?”, “What ideas did you think the dance expressed?”
  • • comparing use of one or more elements of dance and/or choreographic devices such as repetition in dances from a range of genres/styles, cultures, times and/or places; for example, dances from a range of cultures or countries in Asia
  • • investigating how digital tools and use of immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) are influencing choreography, performance or use of production elements

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.