Number of Units: 2
Exclusions: None
Method of Delivery: St Luke’s
External Assessment:
Practical: Practical Exam: Performance: 35% (35 marks) Practical Exam: Choreography: 35% (35 marks)
Written Examination 30% (30 marks)
Contribution to ATAR: Yes
Course Description
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.
Why study this course
Students who undertake Dance have a love and passion for performing, choreographing and understanding Dance. Students in Dance enjoy a range of collaborative and individual experiences as well as having a balance of practical and theoretical learning experiences. Students in Dance generally have an interest or passion for dance as an art form, they may or may not have dance performing experience or formal training, but wish to create, move and understand Dance with purpose.
Topics
Preliminary Course
The Year 11 Dance course is structured over 120 indicative hours, equally divided across three focus areas: Performance, Choreography, and Appreciation, with 40 hours allocated to each. As part of the Appreciation component, students are required to study both an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander dance work and a work by an international choreographer.
HSC Course
The Year 12 Dance course comprises 120 indicative hours, equally distributed across the three focus areas of Performance, Choreography, and Appreciation, with 40 hours allocated to each. In Performance, students present two contrasting solo dance works that demonstrate the integration of performance components and effective communication of intent, developed through classwork. In Choreography, students create a solo dance work, performed by themselves or another student, drawing on research of a prescribed practitioner, with simple props and costumes permitted where integral. In Appreciation, students study a prescribed dance work and analyse its context and components, as well as research one prescribed practitioner, examining their context and body of work.
Post School Options
Students who undertake Dance may pursue further study in Dance, Dance teaching, Costume Design, Lighting Design, Set Design, Choreography, Dance and Technology and Promotional work (such as Dance videos).