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Performance
Performance
Performance: develop knowledge, understanding and skills about dance as an art form through dance performance as a means of developing dance technique and performance quality to communicate ideas.
4.1.1: demonstrates an understanding of safe dance practice and appropriate dance technique in the performance of combinations, sequences and dances.
5.1.1: demonstrates an understanding of safe dance practice and appropriate dance technique with increasing skill and complexity in the performance of combinations, sequences and dances.
Students learn to:
identify and perform a warm-up and cool-down
relate and apply understanding of safe dance practice while acquiring movement skills
move with greater body awareness
control non-locomotor and locmotor combinations when performing extended sequences
use appropriate dance terminology when describing dance technique and safe dance practice.
Students learn about:
their own bodies and how to dance within their own capabilities
preparing themselves physically for movement and safeguarding the body
correct body alignment and placement while executing movement
the language of dance technique.
4.1.2: demonstrates aspects of the elements of dance in dance performance.
5.1.2: demonstrates enhanced dance technique by manipulating aspects of the elements of dance.
Students learn to:
apply the elements of space, time and dynamics to dance movement
combine and apply the elements of space, time and dynamics in sequences and dances
manipulate the elements of space, time and dynamics to communicate an idea in performance.
Students learn about:
how combinations of dance movement can be varied using the elements of dance
how the elements of dance are used to communicate either one's own or a choreographers concept/intent
how the selection and refinement of movement affects the communication of an idea.
4.1.3: demonstrates an understanding of aspects of performance quality through the performance of locomotor and non-locomotor combinates, sequences and dances.
5.1.3: demonstrates an understanding and application of aspects of performance quality and interpretation through performance.
Students learn to:
perform a range of dance skills
apply the elements of space, time and dynamics to personalise dance movement
perform dances with increasing confidence, communicating the intentions of the choreographer
think critically and reflectively as they video their own and others' dance performance and compositions.
Students learn about:
projection, focus and confidence
the performance of dance movement with an awareness of self
the application of technique and performance quality to realise an interpretation in a dance
using video as a tool for self-assessment in dance performance.
Composition
Composition
Composition: develop knowledge, understanding and skills about dance as an artform through dance composition as a means of creating and structuring movement to express and communicate ideas.
4.2.1: identifies and explores aspects of the elements of dance in response to a range of stimuli.
5.2.1: explores the elements of dance as the basis of the communication of ideas.
Students learn to:
explore the elements of space, time and dynamics in relation to a stimulus
select and refine movement to communicate an idea
explore, improvise, select and refine movement based on specific ideas.
Students learn about:
stimulus as a starting point of dance composition
improvisation as a means to explore ideas
the distinctive ways in which they can express their own ideas and experiences
how personal style is a reflection of their movement choices.
4.2.2: composes dance movement, using the elements of dance, that communicates ideas.
5.2.2: composes and structures dance movement that communicates an idea.
Students learn to:
link movements to create a sequence
explore, discuss, reflect, analyse and refine movement sequences
manipulate movement using the elements of dance to create sequences and dances
identify and develop movement motifs to communicate an idea
organise movement into sequences
develop phrases that have a beginning, middle and end
create and refine dance phrases, sequences and compositions by exploring sequence, transition, repetition, variation and contrast.
Students learn about:
transitions and sequencing movement
how the movement can be manipulated to create further movement ideas
structuring dance compositions
the phrase as the link between the idea and the movement
developing personal style.
Appreciation
Appreciation
Appreciation: develop knowledge, understanding and skills about dance as an artform through dance appreciation as a means of describing and analysing dance as an expression of ideas within a social, cultural or historical context.
4.3.1: describes dance performance through the elements of dance.
5.3.1: describes and analyses dance as the communication of ideas within a context.
Students learn to:
describe how the body is used in space, time and dynamics in dance performance and composition
acquire, develop and apply an appropriate dance vocabulary.
Students learn about:
appropriate and effective movement content to communicate ideas
the language of dance to describe movements in space, time and dynamics
movement content in a dance and how the choreographer makes choices to communicate an idea.
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
Dance 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 5 October 2021.
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