Dance

Dance at GWSC

Dance is offered through both the Arts and Health/PE faculties.

Dance provides students with opportunities to experience and enjoy dance as an art form. Through solo and group work they will perform, improvise, compose and appreciate different styles of dance.

Students will develop both physical skills, aesthetic and cultural understandings through dance. The course enables students to express ideas creatively and to communicate physically, verbally and in written form as they make, perform and analyse dances and dance styles.

Classes would be of a highly practical nature, and require students to be fit and energised for each lesson. Dance fosters the development of motor skills, improves overall fitness, mindfulness and health and encourages success and enjoyment for all students.

How are students assessed?

Explore and Express Ideas: Explore personal movement style by combining elements of dance and using improvisation and safe dance practice to develop new movement possibilities

Dance Practices: Students will practise and refine technical and expressive skills to develop proficiency in genre and style-specific techniques. They will also structure dances using movement motifs, choreographic devices and form.

Present and Perform: Students will perform dances using genre-and style specific techniques, expressive skills and productions elements to communicate a choreographer’s intent.

Respond and Interpret: Students will evaluate their own choreography and performance, and that of others, to inform and refine future work.

Why Dance?

Educational Dance offers the students to take a break from the traditional classroom environment enabling them to learn whilst moving around in a fun and engaging manner. This subject is not only a building block for VCE Dance and Drama, but studying Dance has a lot of personal benefits for students. It helps with building self-confidence, presenting in public, and developing interpersonal skills. Anyone who is independent, creative, imaginative, motivated and active will enjoy the practice of Dance.

Students will learn technique and performance skills from a qualified and experienced dance teacher. Students will explore movement vocabulary through manipulating time, space and energy. They will compose dances to express their ideas, feelings and experiences.

There will be opportunities to perform as a group through production, cultural diversity week and other school events. There may be an opportunity to make connections with members of the community through workshops in specialised contemporary and traditional dance styles.

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