Dance

Overview:

This course is designed for students to study Contemporary dance  as an art form. Students develop significant performance and choreography skills in contemporary dance. An appreciation of a variety of choreographers’ works and an understanding of safe dance practices. The interrelation of the course components of performance, choroegraphy and appreciation is a feature in studying Dance and is emphasised in both the Preliminary and HSC course.

Students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to communicate ideas through performance, choreography and appreciation as the central artistic practices of Dance.

• Through performance, students adapt and apply dance technique to perform dance works in different styles and contexts.

• Through choreography, students create abstract symbolic movements in response to a context and a stimulus that are structured and refined to communicate their intent.

• Through appreciation, students explore dance as an art form, and in cultural, social and personal contexts and they analyse and make judgements about dance works.

Preliminary course learning opportunities focus:

• performance

• choreography

• appreciation

HSC course learning opportunities focus:

• Performance: Students will perform two contrasting solo dance works demonstrating the context and synthesis of the components of performance and communication of the intent. 

• Choreography: Students will choreograph a solo dance work to be performed by themselves or by another student from the school. They will draw on their research of a prescribed practitioner from the HSC Dance prescriptions as stimulus for the choreographed dance work. 

• Appreciation: Students will study the prescribed dance work from the HSC Dance prescriptions, focusing on an analysis of  context and the components of appreciation.