Dance
Stage 4 (Year 8)
Students study the Performing Arts areas of music, dance and drama on a rotational basis for the first 3 terms. In the dance component students learn how the body moves through different shapes while performing a routine taught by the teacher, as well as exploring their own movement in groups. In term 4 students have the choice to specialise in one area of performing arts for the rest of the year. Students will look more in depth at creating movement themselves.
Stage 5 (Years 9-10)
The aim of this course is for students to experience, understand, value and enjoy dance as an artform. The course integrates the aspects of performance, composition and appreciation.
Dance Performance Developing dance technique and performance quality to communicate ideas through numerous dance styles. Students develop understanding of how the body moves safely, with an emphasis on the quality and efficiency of movement.
Dance Composition Opportunities to create and structure movement to express and communicate ideas. Devising original and interesting ways for the body to respond. It includes an introduction to composing with inter-active technology (animation and video).
Dance Appreciation Describing and analysing dance as an expression of ideas within a social, cultural or historical context. Developing an understanding of why people dance, the messages they try to communicate and how this has changed throughout history.
Stage 6 (Years 11-12)
Students undertake a study of dance as an artform. This course caters for a range of abilities and offers opportunities of major study in a variety of aspects of dance not merely performance. Therefore you need not be a dancer to do well in this course.
It integrates the three areas of performance, composition and appreciation and although a student must attempt each of the core areas they also select one of these areas on which to focus as a major.
Major study areas include Performance, Composition, Appreciation, and Composition through 3D Animation and Composition through dance video.
