Assessment

Collaborate, choreograph and perform a dance work that uses a poem as a stimulus. Students will also document their process in a learning journal.

This assessment will be in 3 parts:

• performance - students will be assessed on their dance technique and performance quality in the performance of their work

• composition - students will be assessed on their use of the compositional tools to create a dance work

• learning journal - students will be assessed on their critical and reflective writing of their own dance work.

Present a dance work devised through problem-solving tasks and manipulation of the elements of dance. You will explore, devise, select, refine and structure movement in response to a poem.

You will demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the compositional process through performance, oral and written tasks. Throughout this unit, you will be given individual and group choreographic tasks to construct the dance work.

Students will be assessed on evidence of their abilities to:

Performance

• control non-locomotor and locomotor combinations when performing extended sequences

• manipulate the elements of space, time and dynamics to communicate an idea in performance

• apply the elements of space, time and dynamics to personalise dance movement

• perform dances with increasing confidence, communicating the intentions of the choreographer.

Composition

• explore, improvise, select and refine movement based on specific ideas

• manipulate movement using the elements of dance to create sequences and dances

• create and refine dance phrases, sequences and compositions by exploring sequence, transition, repetition, variation and contrast.

Appreciation

Throughout the unit you will be asked to record your findings and reflect and evaluate your own choreographic process in your learning journal.

Students will be assessed on evidence of their abilities to:

• describe how the body is used in space, time and dynamics in dance performance and composition .

Skilled

• Sustains a skilled performance demonstrating alignment, strength, articulation, flexibility, agility, coordination and consistent application of safe dance practice.

• Demonstrates a skilled understanding of the elements of dance and an in-depth knowledge of how the selection and refinement of movement affects the communication of an idea.

• Structures written and oral responses with accurate detail and appropriate terminology.

Sound

• Demonstrates a performance that may have some inconsistencies in alignment and/or strength and/or articulation and/or flexibility and/or agility and/or coordination and application of safe dance practice.

• Demonstrates a sound understanding of the elements of dance and a competent knowledge of how the selection and refinement of movement affects the communication of an idea.

• Mostly structure written and oral responses. Descriptions and explanations are sometimes inconsistent in their accuracy and use of terminology.

Limited

• Presents a limited dance demonstrating a lack of control of alignment and/or strength and/or articulation and/or coordination and major inconsistencies of safe dance practice.

• Presents a limited understanding of the elements of dance and a developing knowledge of how selection and refinement of movement affects the communication of an idea.

• Basic information listed in written and oral responses with limited use of terminology.

Minimal

• Moves with minimal awareness of alignment, strength, articulation and major inconsistencies in the application of safe dance practice.

• A minimal attempt at using the elements of dance and no evidence of how the selection and refinement of movement affects the communication of an idea.

• Inaccurate information in written and oral responses.