VCE Dance provides opportunities for students to explore the potential of movement as a means of creative expression and communication. In VCE Dance students create and perform their own dance works as well as studying the dance works of others through performance and analysis. In each unit, students undertake regular and systematic dance training to develop their physical skills and advance their ability to execute a diverse range of expressive movements. Students also develop and refine their choreographic skills by exploring personal and learnt movement vocabularies. They study ways other choreographers have created and arranged movement to communicate an intention and create their own dance works. Students perform learnt solo and group dance works and their own works. They also analyse ways that ideas are communicated through dance and how dance styles, traditions and works can influence dance practice, the arts, artists and society more generally.

Units

• Unit 1 and 2: Areas of Study ; Dance Perspectives, Choreography and Performance, Dance Technique and Performance , Awareness and Maintenance of the Dancer’s Body.

• Unit 3 and 4: Areas of Study ; Dance Perspectives, Choreography, performance and analysis of a skills-based solo dance work, Dance technique, performance and analysis of a learnt dance work, Choreography, performance and dance-making analysis.