Creative Arts

The following courses are offered in Years 11-12 in the Creative Arts faculty:

Dance

The study of Dance builds on the knowledge, skills, and understanding, values and attitudes offered in the art form of dance in the creative arts Syllabus.

The conceptual study of dance as an art form centres on the three practices of:

o Performance- developing dance technique and performance quality to communicate ideas

o Composition- creating and structuring movement to express and communicate ideas

o Dance Appreciation- means of describing and analysing dance as an expression of ideas within a social, cultural or historical context.

Equal emphasis is placed on the processes of experience and end product.

Drama

Drama enables young people to develop knowledge, understanding and skills individually and collaboratively to make, perform and appreciate dramatic and theatrical works. Students take on roles as a means of exploring both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of their world while exploring the ways people react and respond to different situations, issues and ideas.

Students in Drama study the practices of Making, Performing and Critically Studying. Students engage with these components through collaborative and individual experiences.

Music 1

All students should have the opportunity to develop their musical abilities and potential. Music plays important roles in the social, cultural, aesthetic and spiritual lives of people. At an individual level, music is a medium of personal expression. It enables the sharing of ideas, feelings and experiences. The nature of musical study also allows students to develop their capacity to manage their own learning, engage in problem solving, work collaboratively and engage in activities that reflects the real world practice of performers, composers and audiences.

Photographic and Digital Media (PDM)

Photographic and Digital Media provides opportunities for students to enjoy making and studying a range of photographic and digital media works. It enables students to represent their ideas and interests about the world, to engage in contemporary forms of communication and understand and write about their contemporary world. Photographic and Digital Media enables students to investigate new technologies, cultural identity and the evolution of photography and digital media into the 21st Century.

Visual Art

Students in Visual Art study the practices of art making, art criticism and art history. Visual Arts provides opportunities for students to enjoy the making and studying of art. It builds an understanding of the role of art in all forms of media, both in the contemporary and historical world, and enables students to represent their ideas and interests in artworks. Visual Arts enables students to become informed about, understand and write about their contemporary world.

Visual Arts at Stage 6 is designed to enable students to:

• Gain increasing intellectual autonomy in their abilities to aesthetically and persuasively represent ideas in the visual arts.

• Understand and value how the field of the visual arts is subject to different interpretations.

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