STAGE 5 DANCE
Overview of COURSE REQUIREMENTS
The aim of the Stage 5 Elective Dance Course is for you to experience, understand, value and enjoy dance as an art form through the interrelated study of PERFORMANCE, COMPOSITION, and APPRECIATION.Â
During year 9 and 10 you will be performing, composing and appreciating your own dances, the dances of others and dances as works of art in the public domain.
COMPONENTS OF DANCE DANCE COURSE
PERFORMANCE COMPONENT
Dance is an art that is meant to be performed for an audience. Dancers need to apply dance technique and performance quality to communicate an idea to the audience. This is a performance. A performance can be an informal or formal presentation of a classroom sequence, student composition or a choreographed dance.Â
You will study a generic dance training, which is described as ‘dance technique’, this is based on the fundamentals of classical ballet and modern dance techniques through which you will acquire appropriate strength, flexibility, coordination, endurance and skill. You will learn safe dance and basic physiology of the human body as it applies to the dancing body. You will also learn various dance skills in a variety of styles.
COMPOSITION COMPONENT
Dance expresses ideas, feelings and experiences, and is developed through the creative methods of dance composition. You will engage in problem solving tasks and manipulate the elements of dance (Space, Time and Dynamics) as you explore, devise, select, refine and structure movement in a personal response to various stimuli to communicate ideas.
APPRECIATION COMPONENT
Dance will provide you the opportunities to gain understanding of people, culture and society. In appreciation you will study and analyse dance by observing and describing performances, compositions and dance works of art, therefore reinforcing your understanding of your own dance performance and composition. You will learn skills of analysis and learn to communicate your personal responses to dance effectively using appropriate dance terminology in oral, written and physical forms.
YEAR 9 DANCE UNITS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF DANCE
This unit is an introduction to the origins of dance and the different styles and by taking part in practical exercises and technique classes.
ARTS AS A STIMULUS
This unit is an introduction to SPACE, TIME and DYNAMICS and their impact on Dance as an artform. Exploration of art as a stimulus and using it as the basis for generating movement. Students use a variety of stimuli, including auditory, ideational, kinaesthetic, tactile and visual to create a group composition.
READING DANCE
This unit focuses on how to describe and write about dance in a Review format, whilst viewing a variety of dance works. Students engage in literacy lessons to help build their dance vocabulary and study how socio-cultural contexts impact on dance works. Students will focus on Bangarra’s Ochres as a dance work and learn how to write a dance review/essay in relation to a specific question.
THE DANCING BODY
This unit is an introduction to the concept of the body as an instrument to communicate movement. With particular focus on technique and healthy practices for maintaining the body for dance. Close look at an individual’s anatomical structure, capabilities and limitations, and how this impacts on technique training and acts as a safeguard against injury.
YEAR 10Â DANCE UNITS
CHAPTERS IN MODERN DANCE
Students investigate the origins of Modern Dance and its pioneers through performance and appreciation. The unit shows the break away from ballet technique and explores the development of new characteristics of these modern dance pioneers styles and how this has affected contemporary dance today.
MAXIMISING YOUR POTENTIAL
Continuation of SDP, focusing on how to maximise your potential as a dancer. Students explore their body as a tool for the communication of intent and the importance of its training and maintenance to reach its full potential. Students learn about injury prevention and training techniques that assist in maximising capabilities and skill development.
MASTERING THE MOTIF
Students learn to generate movement through the process of improvisation and using this to create a motif, to then develop this into a phrase using the elements of dance. Students demonstrate how the elements of dance are used to communicate an idea and develop knowledge of how to organise movement to convey a concept/intent.
CARMEN
Introduction into Dance Analysis. Students watch a prescribed dance work, Carmen by Mats EK. They analyse the components and the organisation of the dance work. Students learn how to write a dance essay in relation to a specific question. In groups students explore the idea of Symbolism, use of prop, visual motif and Mats Ek’s Choreography.
ASSESSMENT GRIDS AND TASKS
YEAR 9 DANCE
Throughout Year 9 you will have four assessment periods.
Assessment 1 = Dance Styles Digital Presentation
Assessment 2 = Group Composition
Assessment 3 = Part A: Online Safe Dance Exam
Part B: Performance Assessment
Assessment 4 = Written Review
YEAR 10 DANCE
Through Year 10 you will have four assessment periods.
Assessment 1 = Modern Dance Instructional Video
Assessment 2 = Performance
Assessment 3 = Solo Composition
Assessment Period 4 = Take Home Essay
