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AC9ADA8P01: Year 7 The Arts Content Descriptor – Dance
AC9ADA8P01 Year 7 The Arts

AC9ADA8P01 – Year 7 The Arts: Dance

Strand
Presenting and performing
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

rehearse and perform dance for audiences, using technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate genre- or style-specific techniques

Elaborations

  • • planning effective use of available performance spaces during rehearsals
  • • using production elements such as projection, soundscape, music, special effects or voice-overs to share key ideas or information about the creative intention of the dance with the audience
  • • using technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques when performing dance they have learnt and/or choreographed
  • • using rehearsal strategies or techniques such as spotting to enhance confidence, clarity of movement, projection, focus and musicality in performance
  • • introducing their dance to an audience; for example, in a program note or voice-over that uses descriptive style-specific dance terminology

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.