COURSE: DANCE

Leader of Learning: Mrs Allysha Hodges

 2 units for each of Year 11 and HSC / Board Developed Course

Course Description

Dance is a creative discipline where the body translates and expresses the world. By blending technical mastery and safe practice with innovative choreography, students communicate powerful ideas through a professional lens. The course develops higher-order thinking and self-discipline by analysing professional works, including the deep cultural protocols and connections to Country of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. By balancing creation with physical refinement, students find their signature voice and build a goal-oriented mindset, turning creative vision into high-impact reality.

Course Content

The Dance 11–12 Syllabus is structured around the key Dance practices of performance, choreography and appreciation, which form the focus areas. In the Year 11 course, the emphasis is on the discrete and explicit study of the focus areas. In the Year 12 course, students synthesise their knowledge, understanding and skills both in and across the focus areas. 

Year 11 - Focus Areas

• Performance

• Choreography

• Appreciation

Year 12 - Focus Areas

• Performance: Students will perform two contrasting solo works developed during class that synthesise technical skill with expressive intent to communicate a distinct creative vision. 

• Choreography: Students will choreograph a solo work for themselves or another student, through research into a prescribed HSC Dance practitioner as stimulus, while incorporating any integral props or costumes. 

• Appreciation: Students will analyse a prescribed dance work and its context while researching the background and body of work of one prescribed HSC practitioner. 

Year 12 (HSC) Requirements: All students must complete a performance, a work of choreography and a written examination paper.

Course Requirements

This course is a continuation of the skills developed in Stage 5 (Years 9-10) Dance. However, it remains a flexible course, and students who did not complete Stage 5 Dance may still elect to study Stage 6 Dance. 

Suggested Prerequisites

Stage 5 Elective Dance (or equivalent experience).

Exclusions

Project Overlap: Works developed for assessment in Dance cannot be used for any other HSC subject.

Elective Fees

Year 11: $85.00

Year 12: $85.00

Elective fees cover specialist consumables, while any additional workshops or excursions will be billed and paid for separately via a Compass event.