Dance - Let's Dance B
Length of Course
Level
Learning Area
Core or Specialist
Pre-requisites
Year 8 Let's Dance A
Subject Description
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This semester will have a big emphasis on performance. Students will be assessed on their performance skills and stage presence, focusing on building confidence and effective communication with the audience. The practical focus will help students lay a solid foundation in performance skills and stagecraft.
Understanding Dance:
The Body: Introduction to body articulations, weight transfer, and body awareness.
Dance Skills: Basic technical skills (control, alignment, balance) and expressive skills (confidence, projection, musicality).
Dance Elements: Fundamentals of space and time
Structural Devices: Basic choreographic tools and simple compositional forms.
Production Elements: Introduction to lighting, performance space, sound, costumes, sets, and props.
Safe Dance Practices: Basic understanding of the musculoskeletal system and injury prevention.
Creating Dance:
Choreography and Performance: Using basic elements of dance to convey ideas.
Communication Skills: Learning to engage and connect with the audience.
Innovative Movement: Creating simple movement phrases.
Collaboration: Working with peers to create and refine dance pieces.
Technologies: Introduction to using simple technologies in choreography.
Responding to Dance:
Performance Analysis: Reflecting on personal and peers’ performances.
Dance Literacy: Using basic terminology to discuss performance and choreography.
Practical and Theoretical tasks - Mostly stage craft
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